Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ed P Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: A Fish Friday 4/11/25 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:17:13 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <16f2aee667fef5a0df1a1ff1443689b7@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:17:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="311442e47328d1bd378b0d2cad7bced5"; logging-data="3123452"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/QlD1/5cNOzh7sv7Ev6q674W1q8PHz0NA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kcrc3gYVJfYW+eN4HnqZ2a1Sx8E= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3019 On 4/13/2025 5:26 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: > On 2025-04-13, Hank Rogers wrote: >>> >>> Trump Administration Exempts Phones, Computers from Reciprocal Tariffs >>> >>> "The Trump administration is exempting phones, computers, and other >>> electronics from its tariffs on China and other nations... >>> >>> U.S. Customs and Border Protection shared a notice late Friday listing >>> 20 products that are excluded from Trump’s 145 percent tariffs on China >>> and 10 percent minimum tariffs on foreign imports. Phones, computers, >>> chips, routers, and semiconductor chips are some of the products on the >>> list... >>> >>> The exemption will benefit consumers who were potentially facing higher >>> prices on iPhones and many other everyday electronics because of Trump’s >>> tariffs on China. It will also benefit companies including Apple and >>> semiconductor chip maker Nvidia, two of America’s largest corporations >>> by market capitalization..." >>> >> >> Who cares? That's today. Our dictator could change his mind by >> tomorrow. Somebody could flatter, or bribe him easily, or he could >> simply get pissed about some minor thing (like the name of something). >> Who knows how to predict a narcissistic psychopath's actions? > > Who cares? How many phones does a person buy in a month? The iPhone sells for about $1200. According to Apple, if they were made in the USA they would have to sell for $3500. > > It's crazy to impose tariffs on food and pharmaceuticals. > Crazy is the guy imposing them. His ego is more important than your money.