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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

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639 points CTOSian | 5 comments | 26 Aug 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.846s | 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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1. jama211 ◴[26 Aug 25 19:29 UTC] No.45031125[source]▶
Why are people still surprised that this administration which has done nothing but act batshit insane continues to do so?
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2. petre ◴[26 Aug 25 19:53 UTC] No.45031519[source]▶
What did you expect from Tariff Man 2.0? Get more reasonable with age?
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3. delecti ◴[26 Aug 25 20:32 UTC] No.45031967[source]▶
You can accept that they're fundamentally batshit insane and also be surprised upon learning about a specific new kind of batshit insanity.

And also, letting new batshit insane things slide is just complying in advance. If we're ever going to get back to a sane society (a big "if"), we can't accept the insanity until then, or it'll stick.

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4. jama211 ◴[27 Aug 25 19:02 UTC] No.45043619[source]▶
I didn’t say let it slide, I’m just over all the shocked faces, us doing the shocked step is something they bank upon, as it sorta stun-locks us sometimes for lack of a better term as they continue the bombardment.
5. jama211 ◴[27 Aug 25 19:02 UTC] No.45043622[source]▶
Haha, right??