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•Created by JeremyCook on 12/10/2024 in #🟩-pcb-and-analog
How Might US-China Trade Relations Impact PCB/PCBA Pricing and Imports?
So I generally try to stay away from politics publicly, but I live in the US, and as you may have heard there was an election here. Deferring judgement on other aspects, there will likely be some effect on trade, i.e. US tariffs for goods, especially from China.
It's hard to see the pricing I can get from a Chinese PCB/PCBA manufacturer as fair (it's rather unbelievable TBH), but at the same time I really like it. I think/hope that there's some exemption for the price/quantity of goods that I normally order, so maybe that won't change directly, but if there's a general increased unhappiness between our countries maybe this will trickle down to my level imports-wise?
Hard to predict what the effects will be, but what are people's thoughts from a US and non-US perspective trade-wise? More specifically thinking about the sort of things that we do, e.g. custom PCBs/parts/etc... Maybe it's a good time to open up a PCBA fabrication operation?
(I'm trying to keep this pretty narrow politics-wise, most of that discussion is for elsewhere IMO)
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