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

@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.

@nonoise  Rump simply banned Chinese EVs once he came into office.

Not true. Again it was Biden.

"In the final days of his presidency, Joe Biden has announced a rule to prohibit the sale and import of connected vehicle hardware and software systems, as well as completed connected vehicles, from China and Russia."

Additional 'Protective' tariffs will prevent Chinese EV's from entering the market. Because if we don't we will see the end of our auto industry. Are you aware...BYD is making electric cars for as low as $12k? I bet consumers would run as fast as they can to buy these cheap cars and would give a crap about the destruction of our industry.

The cheap price is all that matters. 

@immatthewj 

Thanks for the heads up and info. I'd like to think I have some good years left and have been contemplating a better life and in order to do so, go back to that diet I mentioned that served me so well. The problem is I have a sweet tooth and still eat like a kid....which shows and it's starting to bug me. I've always rebounded from what little backsliding I've done but at 71, the results aren't coming like they used to. 

Time to heed your and my own advice. 😀

All the best,
Nonoise