This is going to make our electronics get so expensive. 🤦🏻
Ok, this is up there with "lets attack Greenland"
What will the population of Taiwan think of this move? Since TSMC already has a fab in the US this will not affect them this badly?
I truly doubt Trump's bid to jumpstart US manufacturing will actually achieve much of anything. US Financial Capital is the driving force of the economy, and we are far behind peers like China when it comes to industrialization. All this appears to be doing is sharpening the contradictions at play.
He's got one trick folks.
Devices with taiwanese chips will get tariffed too? Because this opens up a way to ourairce manufacturing so that the US doesn't just buy chips and avoid the tariff.
Doesn't this do the inverse of boosting local commerce?
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