Reply To: First Brexit – now tariffs

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it’s been pretty much par for the course since the orange cheetoh started this idiocy.

He announces tariffs, but there aren’t any systems in place to actually do the work … and then he also changes it which is even worse. The guy and the rest of his cohort fail to understand that one of the reasons why governments tend to be slow in implementing things like is is because there’s a ton of forms that need to be changed (or added).

Heck, I bet that the ‘de minimis’ rule existed *because* the paperwork required wasn’t worth the gains and only succeeded in slowing things down to a crawl …

Then again … everything he is doing appears to be designed to kill the little guys and benefit the big boys.

It really sucks that (especially our hobby) has a lot of these small companies that simply can’t handle the additional admin required by these shenanigans. Add in a lot of folk reaching retirement age and you can pretty much predict the collapse of an entire industry.

It kind of is a blessing that 3D printing has become good enough that consumers can manage this with a bit of effort, because that may very well be the only way we can get the kind of stuff these small companies design.

(that is until they implement tariffs on digital goods or find other ways to make life hard for designers and creators).