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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Thomas Koenig   wrote:   
   >And the tarrifs broke the company's back. This is also mentioned   
   >in the article that you quoted, by the way.   
      
   Vietnam tariffs on electronics aren't quite as bad.   
      
   I make a thing that uses a switch.  The switch costs $3.10 each from China,   
   now with a $1.10 tariff added.  (These are Q1000 prices since I am just a small   
   operation.)   
      
   I went looking for an equivalent... and a company in Vietnam makes a similar   
   product, and switches from Vietnam are not tariffed at all, but they are   
   almost $9 each which is a problem, and I don't think the quality is as good   
   as the Chinese ones.   
      
   Likewise board fab in China is now being tariffed at a pretty high rate (to   
   the point where the big prototype board company JLC is no longer accepting   
   orders from the US because they don't want to be bothered with the customs   
   mess), but there's no tariff on board fab from Vietnam.  Board fab is kind of   
   an odd duck since most of the cost of board fab in the US and Vietnam is   
   waste disposal, while in China they just drop all the heavy metal waste   
   into a sump in the basement.  So it's very hard for anyone with sane   
   disposal laws to compete with the Chinese.   
      
   So, I do see some of these tariffs possibly pushing some production out   
   of China and into Vietnam and Thailand in the future, but I don't see it   
   doing anything other than hurting customers right now.   
   --scott   
      
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