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....are not even 3.6% of the global PCB export market. That global market is worth $48 billion. The largest PCB manufacturer in the USA is TTM technologies, with revenues of just $600m.

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The USA isn't even a big player in the PCB market compared to Canada.

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It's nice that the little company you linked exists and all, but the US PCB industry is just a blip on the radar right now.
 
But he's backtracking without China having made a concession, which Trump definitely would've made public. Also, it's curious how people who are for these tariffs concede China is more self-reliant than the US yet want to act like a war of attrition caused by this cold turkey approach to trade will have the US come out on top. Doesn't it make more sense that the country with a head start on the US as far as manufacturing will benefit more from this "strategy" than the US? Not saying incentivizing manufacturing is wrong, but maybe this is just a shitty play. A cold turkey approach to something as complex as global trade is rarely the optimal strategy.
He’s replacing Chinese supply lines with their regional rivals who are least likely to serve as pass throughs, and stringing people along to give the process time.

What happened when the South Korean president realized he was surrounded by Chinese infiltrators and hit the panic button? Oh yeah, he was essentially overthrown

People need to get used to the idea that we’re China’s ENEMY. Not competitor, not adversary, their ENEMY

And no, China does not benefit. They’re geared for obscene overproduction to the exclusion of domestics consumption, so no other market can absorbs their exports. They are fucked over a barrel without a condom and are now pregnant with African aids babies
 
But he's backtracking without China having made a concession, which Trump definitely would've made public. Also, it's curious how people who are for these tariffs concede China is more self-reliant than the US yet want to act like a war of attrition caused by this cold turkey approach to trade will have the US come out on top. Doesn't it make more sense that the country with a head start on the US as far as manufacturing will benefit more from this "strategy" than the US? Not saying incentivizing manufacturing is wrong, but maybe this is just a shitty play.
The tariffs haven't even been in effect for a full month. Also, it is highly questionable if China can survive without the US consumer market. The US, on the other hand, can survive without buying shit from China. Will your cheap Chinese crap cost more? Yes, but all that means is people will buy less cheap Chinese crap they don't need.
 
I'm more involved the international market than you will ever be in your life. We'll see how long that lasts because I have feeling your bosses are going to watch sales and growth plummet because companies that adapt and eat the cost will maintain sales. The ones that don't will suffer. On the final leg of the S&P, they're going to see sales suffer. They won't survive suffering sales. The companies that try to shove higher prices are all getting told "Fuck you, we'll go somewhere else". I'm seeing that far more from much larger companies.
What companies are these exactly? I'm not sure who is poised to ride out the tariffs (be it the uncertainty or a +100% tariff on overseas goods) without any concerns.
 
The tariffs haven't even been in effect for a full month. Also, it is highly questionable if China can survive without the US consumer market. The US, on the other hand, can survive without buying shit from China. Will your cheap Chinese crap cost more? Yes, but all that means is people will buy less cheap Chinese crap they don't need.
It's my understanding all the tariffs are paused
 
....are not even 3.6% of the global PCB export market. That global market is worth $48 billion. The largest PCB manufacturer in the USA is TTM technologies, with revenues of just $600m.

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The USA isn't even a big player in the PCB market compared to Canada.

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It's nice that the little company you linked exists and all, but the US PCB industry is just a blip on the radar right now.
True but it's easier to go from 1-10 than from 0-1.
 
China is WAY ahead of western world in the context of fertility rate. It's population is absolutely vapid due to decades of cultural destruction by the commie party. They already hit rock bottom.

Meanwhile, the situation is exponentially worse in South Korea which has adopted 150% capitalism and debt to max. This is happening in USA right now. Unless we switch the course, we are going to sink.
i don't care on principal if the world population declines, the majority of the people who do reproduce shouldn't as it is. There's clearly a limit on how many people you can have as a society before things start to break down regardless if it's theoretically possible to support them or not, the problem comes with the social programs needing fresh meat to throw into the system to keep the Ponzi scheme going and the fact that we're not just allowing the population to self correct by importing tens of millions of 3rd worlders to make it seem like the system is still "healthy and growing"
 
While some wealthy individuals no doubt benefited from advocating for independence it is a simplification to say that the British were fooled into escalating the conflict. What happened was that their government made lots of mistakes that ultimately culminated in the USA breaking away from the United Kingdom.
"Why did you make us do this? All we wanted to do was drink ale and grill..."
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Income under a certain amount is exempt from Federal income taxes. If you're married, you don't pay taxes on the first $29,200 (singles get a whopping $14,600 of exemption) you earn. It's a pittance, but it's something.
The exemption should be $20,000. The average apartment costs 1,600 a month (19,200 a year). Simply allowing people to afford a place to stay would cut down on homelessness over night.

Chinks are so based
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Meanwhile, trump is mulling over $5000 cash every baby born....to women.

NO amount of money will increase birthrate. It can only increase if women are FORCED to choose between shitty career or POTENTIAL happy family
Commercial surrogacy literally exists. That's cash for being pregnant, and is creating more people every year. Women when given a choice prefer the career to the family. That's exactly what is happening now, and will continue to happen in the future.

Incel revolution is inevitable. 40-50% Gen z men are virgins. Possibly 70% if you consider false reporting by men who are ashamed to admit they are virgins.

Be ready

They are coming for the pussies.
This is the problem with incel thinking. Instead of doing, or advocating for things that would actually improve men's lives, you get retard fantasy shit about state mandated girlfriends. An end to mandatory child support, decriminalization of paying for prostitution, an end to alimony, an end to no fault divorce, and government subsidies for surrogacy would all improve the average man's life tenfold. More so than state mandated girlfriends ever would.

This is the hard-hitting journalism my taxes pay for. You're welcome.
Thanks for taking this worthless bullshit excuse for a "person."

as Newsome promised to "not hand over anyone to ICE, California is a sanctuary state."
Trump should've sign an executive order day one that cut sanctuary cities/states off from federal funding. The people of this nation have spoken. The browns are going back.
 
If anyone wants to see a Chinese language source, probably Taiwanese in origin, for the kind of shit China is experiencing, check out this guy


The entire timeline is a documentation of small protests, like workers not getting paid and homeowners whose building is falling apart, etc.
would you trust a chinese owned plataform as a serious source to get a peek into whats going on in the US reality if you lived in China?
 
would you trust a chinese owned plataform as a serious source to get a peek into whats going on in the US reality if you lived in China?
I trust that there’s a community of Chinese expats who want to archive and exfiltrate social media posts before they disappear


I remember Lily Tang Williams trashing Maggie Jake Sullivan’s wife “Goodlander” in a debate last fall, and she’s a Chinese expat.

Lei from Lei’s real talk is a Chinese expat.

You find enough of these and yeah, I think if they buy these channels, that’s enough corroboration
 
the US PCB industry is just a blip on the radar right now.
I don't think that's going to change much. Most US sourced stuff is either for fast prototypes or high reliability/aerospace and similar, with prices to match.
Bulk consumer crap PCBs are likely to continue coming from China as even with tariffs they're still cheap. What may change is where assembly is done, slapping components on them raises the value and thus the tariffs and setting up for assembly can be a much lower capital investment than tooling up to make the PCBs themselves with bunches of chemicals and other fun that's cheaper in China with fewer pesky environmental regulations.
 
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