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Will the tariffs affect any of the CCRs that are already in the US that just awaiting sale?
It won't be applied to them, but it will affect them. Any price adjustments due to tariffs will be applied before any new stock arrives. And once the tariffs are removed, the price will remain elevated. You loved their product at  X price, you were happy to pay X+ during the tariffs, and now you're wondering why it still costs X+.
 

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Let's keep this about how tariffs can affect radio related items and not about geography lessons, lest the thread gets closed...or I can issue warnings. As Donny and Marie would say "I'm leaving it all up to you".
Heard and McDonald is about seafood. Nothing about radio.

I haven't bought a new radio in .....let me think, well it's been at least 25 years. Never bought a CCR so no problem there. I've bought some minor testing stuff new, but I'm for the most part good there now. Missing is a newer service monitor to replace my ancient Motorola, but that will be replaced by something not quite as old, but with more functions and hopefully with the name IFR on it. (although not against other brands). I know this is likely to affect peoples habits but, better hunker down, I guess it's gonna be a long ride. Just have to see what happens.
Neither had I. I was able to get a lot of stuff after selling my old place. I knew to get a bunch right then, because i knew this was coming. And, that allowed me to come into the 21st century as far as radios.

There's a couple more things that would be nice to have, but I'm kinda set for right now.
 

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Chinesium radios are landfill anyway so no loss. I got rid of all mine as they were all garbage.

^This.


They ARE all complete over priced crap. I have some that are MURS and Ham, but as backup ONLY. When I want a radio I buy name brand. I don't subscribe to this whole CCR craze.

In retrospect, I hope more radio manufactures see to it to build here in this the US of A and create jobs.
 

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The percentages are not Tariff percentages, but a percentage of taking the goods imported to the USA and goods exported.

Americans are so gullible.
It's a percentage that represents the US trade deficit with said country. As I. The US imports xx% MORE trade goods, than that country imports from the US.

Trump wants the rubes that voted for him to equate that percentage with it being a Tariff, but it is not.
 

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That would be great, but with the cost of American labor, it's highly doubtful. The radios would not meet a price point that many would be willing to pay.
This is so accurate.

Hams LOVE the $20 steaming pile of dog crap radios they can buy a dozen of, so if they drop/lose/sink it doing some make belive activity most are not capable of doing, they are not losing a 'real' radio. These chumps sure are not going to buy a Made in the USA radio, only complain how expensive they are. Maybe the quality of operator will improve with a bit higher of a barrier to entry. I'm all for quality over quantity.
 

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That would be great, but with the cost of American labor, it's highly doubtful. The radios would not meet a price point that many would be willing to pay.

Oh, I know all about that, believe me. It's an issue that needs to be rectified. Otherwise this country is on a fast track to economic hell.
 

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Oh, I know all about that, believe me. It's an issue that needs to be rectified. Otherwise this country is on a fast track to economic hell.
It's too late. These jobs were off-shored and are not coming back, Americans cannot work for the wages that are paid in China. So either we have uber-expensive American radios or continue to purchase radios made overseas
 

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So you want American labor to be paid pennies on the dollar, like Chinese labor?

If proper policy isn't invoked that saves our production capability and GDP that's EXACTLY what will happen.

It all started with Nixon going to China - and the catalyst is Congress. The taxes, the regulations, you name it. You wanna build something, well you have to pay for an environmental study due to this weed, etc. China et al doesn't have this nonsense - and they are building one coal fired power planet a week last I heard...

In a nutshell the U.S. does not have a business friendly climate.
 

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I asked nicely to keep this radio related.
"The US does not have a business friendly climate" translation: "The US has things like OSHA, NIOSH and CPSC that mean you can't have 13 year old kids working in factories for 16 hours a day. You can't blindly dump toxins from petroleum based plastics into the water or the by products of lithium ion battery manufacturing into the waste either. You also can't put up nets to catch miserable slave workers from jumping to their deaths."

I fixed it for you.

The greedy pigs that SOLD US OUT did so because of you know, things like the Triangle Shirt Waist Company tactics that were outlawed post WWI. They jumped at the opportunity to offshore manufacturing as soon as "walls were torn down" and "borders opened up" and there is NO TURNING BACK. The ship sailed. We are now the largest CONSUMER and smallest PRODUCER.
 
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