Washing machines and solar panels so far.

[rabo]

Wonder what the future will bring.
Hope the 45 will not realize there are lots of liberals riding 2 wheels.
My bikes come to a standstill these days when you say the word "China".

[Too Tall]

I only understood the first and last words in that statement ;)
Break it down for me, I'm classically ignorant when it comes to deciphering snark. No offense ment.

[Octave]

I only understood the first and last words in that statement ;)
Break it down for me, I'm classically ignorant when it comes to deciphering snark. No offense ment.

The orange goon announced substantial tariffs (up to 50%) on imports to the USA for washing machines and solar panels coming from abroad. America First initiative.

[sk_tle]

I'm not involved but I assume rabo talks about the decision to apply a 50% tariff on the importation of washing machines and solar panels in the USA and the possible implications on the bicycle world if it applied to everything retail.

EDIT: Octave won the sprint by a large margin.

[El Chaba]

Special request....Let's leave the political commentary out. I don't care from which direction it comes it detracts from the discussion of what's really important-bicycles and riding them.

[Matthew Strongin]

Moved to The OT because even if it ends up being about bicycles, it's not really about bicycles.

[j44ke]

LG's already begun its solution to the tariff by building factories in Michigan and Tennessee. The Michigan plant is ostensibly for electric car components, but not too much imagination needs to be used to see that battery systems are a central part of residential PV set ups (like Tesla's Powerwall.) The other factory is some giant $250 million factory for appliances in Clarksville. That way LG can make a lot of their low-to-mid priced lines of electronic appliances in the states where any tariff would have a higher impact on sales, figuring that most buyers for products in those price ranges have a hair's breadth tolerance for price fluctuations upward. And that would actually be (unless I mistaken) the real purpose for these tariffs - not to push people to buy American made goods, but to encourage foreign manufacturers to invest in the US marketplace by creating jobs and not harm the economy by making it impossible for US manufacturers to be profitable enough to stay in business and employ people.

Or to put it another way, the purpose of this tariff is to open a pathway for immigrant corporations to become American citizens.

Now if we can only figure out how to do that for individuals.