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President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 91 points 2 years ago (1 children)

these actions already admit defeat

[–] arin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are iphones tariffed as well? It's also from China

[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Technically. However, the end product is sold by a US company, so from the gov. POV it is fine.

Banning chinese manufactured products would mean banning a huge portion of the domestic market.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So US companies will buy things those from China, slap a logo on it and sell American Made goods at a h huge markup

[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Technically yes. However, most of the time, they just outsource manufacturing. Research and developement is still usually done in house. Apple for example, wrote the software and designed the hardware for the iPhone but assembles it in China because of cost.