Most of the customs tariffs announced by Donald Trump last week will be implemented on Wednesday, April 9. For many companies, this is the jump in a vacuum: importing their products into the United States will cost much more, and many of them will have no choice but to raise prices for the chagrin of US consumers.
After the chaos of the announcement by Donald Trump of additional customs duties on imports from dozens of countries, businesses begin to see a little more clearly about the effects of this trade war. And the news is already bad for US consumers: prices will rise.
Pressure companies, customers go to the cashier
And it will start this Wednesday, while the most important part of the “Trump tax” – after the 10 % is unilaterally in place since April 5 – comes into effect. Micron A thus informed Its clients that if the customs prices do not trade semiconductors, it still affects memory modules and SSD storage.
As a result, the prices of these components will undergo a ‘overhang’, which will have an impact on many equipment, from computers to servers from data centers, including vehicles. Micron’s approach is likely to be those of many other suppliers of storage modules.
Another concrete matter, has the Blackmagic manufacturer announcement An increase in the prices of his cameras: The 12k pyxis goes from $ 4,995 to $ 6,595, an increase of 32 %. The 6K pyxis is now paid $ 3.295 instead of $ 2.995, the Ursa Cine 17k times back to $ 32,995 (at $ 29.995 normal). The manufacturer exactly That these increases do not affect the Davinci software, or the Blackmagic Cloud Infonuagic service. And that only the United States is affected by these increases.
Chez Framework Specialist in the modular laptop, a decision was made to temporarily withdraw from the sale of various models of the laptop 13 (in this case the ultra 5 125h and Ryzen 5 7640U versions). “ We determined the price of our laptops when the customs duties on the import from Taiwan were 0 % », explain The manufacturer.
With 10 %prices, we would be forced to sell access level models at a loss. Other manufacturers of consumer goods made the same calculations and made the same decisions, even though most of them did not admit it in public Add the business.
When it comes to car manufacturers, the shower is just as cold. Volkswagen decided to to suspend the export to the United States of Audi models. This is also the case with the British group Jaguar Land Rover, which hang Delivery of his vehicles during the month of April. Customs prices represent an increase between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000 (or more) on the price of JLR cars.
These examples can increase a lot as businesses heat their calculator. Appeal do Deliver large amounts of iPhone from India History to build up sufficiently to last a few months without raising prices. Bloomberg report That the crowds in the manufacturer’s stores are worthy of Christmas: Consumers go there in large numbers to immediately buy the iPhone they have been chatting for a while without crossing the Rubicon so far.