I found a way to get around tariffs that will raise the price of audio equipment.

@nonoise Here are the real facts so now you know.

All commodities importing into china, need pay the 3 types tariffs:

I. Customs Duty
II. Value-added tax
III. Consumption tax

This just for value added Tax... (There are plenty more.)

All goods imported into China are subject to the nation’s value-added tax (VAT) of either 13 percent or 17 percent. The 13 percent tax is available for certain goods that fall mainly within the categories of agricultural and utility items, while the 17 percent tax applies to other goods subject to the VAT tax.

Go read the real story... (from 2022)

https://www.transcustoms.com/tariff/#:~:text=All%20goods%20imported%20into%20China,subject%20to%20the%20VAT%20tax.

BTW... I’m sure you know that Biden impossed a 100% tariff on Chinese cars just before leaving office. But that was OK. No complaints then.

on Chinese electric cars, yes.  they went hand-in-hand with subsidies for the production of EVs, semiconductors, and other technologies designed to stimulate U.S. growth (which Biden's successor denounced).

You left that part out.

@gdaddy1 

That 13-17% VAT sounds about right, but compared to the 17-27% EU VAT which has been around since, forever, sounds tame. Doesn't it all depend on the country and its market? Some industries are highly valued and imports would devastate that market so they, like we, protect certain industries in our respective markets. It's done all the time.

As for what Biden did, yes, he did impose a 100% tariff on Chinese government subsidized EVs to stop undercutting our EVs made here. Countries do it all the time but one must look at the underlying reasons for doing so. China made 30 million EVs but could only sell 22 million in country so their government tried to sell out of country, undercutting real world prices for them. You know, dumping. What Biden did was retaliatory. 

Biden's tariffs were largely symbolic since they were imposed as he was leaving office. That, and Rump simply banned Chinese EVs once he came into office.

All the best,
Nonoise

I hear, there are plans to significantly lower the value of US dollar. What else do they have in mind to potentially complicate our audiophile life, I wonder?

cholesterol is you least problem with alcohol tobacco.it has a direct link to head and neck cancer

@mark200mph , cardiovascular disease kills more people in the USA than cancer, so be sure and tell that to the next patient you are trying to shock out of v-fib.

@nonoise , without seeing your actual lab work I cannot make an informed comment. The other level the doc may have been referring to was probably your HDL, but at a certain level of LDL I am not sure the HDL can actually compensate for it. Maybe I have been indoctrinated due to my second career as a RN after my  previous career went south on me, but my understanding is that elevated LDL has a direct link to coronary artery disease and CAD has a direct link to myocardial infarction and MI often ends up as cardiac arrest, and when that happens if you are not in the right place and around the right people it usually has a poor outcome (and even then survival is not a done deal). I didn’t intend that as a lecture and I wish you a long healthy life so I sincerely hope that everything you are doing health wise works for you, but a low dose of Crestor is working okay for me with minimal side effects, so I am not changing that until it doesn’t work.