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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

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639 points CTOSian | 3 comments | 26 Aug 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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zaptheimpaler ◴[26 Aug 25 17:49 UTC] No.45029926[source]▶
> importers must declare the exact amount of steel, copper, and aluminum in products, with a 100% tariff applied to these materials. This makes little sense—PCBs, for instance, contain copper traces, but the quantity is nearly impossible to estimate.

Wow this administration is f**ing batshit insane. I thought the tariffs would be on raw metals, not anything at all that happens to contain them.

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liuliu ◴[26 Aug 25 17:58 UTC] No.45030034[source]▶
> Wow this administration is f*ing batshit insane.

No, it is not insane. This creates perfect "everyone violates the law, we can selectively enforce it" scenario. That's how 10% Intel-like condition can be created for other companies.

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1. intended ◴[26 Aug 25 19:07 UTC] No.45030828[source]▶
It’s insane. You are “emperors new clothes”-ing their actions.

There is no logic to it, it’s make believe for the narrative machine.

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2. anigbrowl ◴[26 Aug 25 21:48 UTC] No.45032746[source]▶
I don't think that's the case. Rather, GP argues that the policy is rationally corrupt. I tend to agree. Many people in the political center would rather believe that terrible policies are the product of stupidity than malice. I too am a fan of Hanlon's razor, but if stupidity were controlling you would expect occasional stupidly good outcomes as well as stupidly bad ones. When you have a decade-long pattern of evidence that decision-making is driven by animus and greed, blaming all the bad outcomes on stupidity or insanity devolves into hand-wringing helplessness instead of a willingness to take the necessary action. Hence the current Congressional Democratic non-policy of condemning Trump but also just waiting for him to die rather than trying to mount any serious effort to remove him.
3. jama211 ◴[27 Aug 25 19:04 UTC] No.45043652[source]▶
The truth likely lies in the middle. Some are truely just insane, some are trying to shoehorn or steer special interests through the insanity, etc.