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Thank God for living in China. We are expert at doing it ourselves with just an email with a blueprint :D
by xwolfi 6y ago
Thank God for living in China. We are expert at doing it ourselves with just an email with a blueprint :D
- h0l0cube 6y agoAnd an onshore manufacturing capability that the world gave up on and delegated to your country of living. Protectionism's best advert has been the logistics disruption of Covid and the recent breakdown in diplomatic relations between the West and China
- breischl 6y agoThis is pretty true. I think this whole thing has been an argument for a low across-the-board tariff, to internalize the risk of supply chain disruptions.
- avidiax 6y agoMaybe a tariff inversely related to domestic production of the good and directly related to its necessity. If your country produces zero units of a necessity (e.g. 7nm silicon), the tariff should be high. Zero units of beanie babies, low tariff.
- tastyfreeze 6y agoAgreed, tariffs should be used as a tool to price the risk of losing that supply chain.
- waheoo 6y agoI can feel the salt on those downvotes to AP. Not his fault he grew up in a country the rest of the world thought they were taking advantage of.
- h0l0cube 6y agoDefinitely no salt from me. Just gave them an upvote to compensate. They have a legit point, and so do I, I reckon.