Impact of Tariffs on Audio Market

BTW - There are folks that complained about tariffs here on this site in 2022. I saw four threads that were still available for folks to read when I did a generalized search.

Laughable.

Or course you'd say something like that, being so easily triggered. This company you work for that is so ahead of everyone else, planning for the future, what's its name and what position do you hold in it? Everything you say about it reads like you're cutting and posting from a company perspective.

And, like others have asked, where the hell did Covid come from? You first post on that was incomprehensible. Anyone else notice that texas doesn't offer real counterpoints but just opportunistic moves to rationalize the childish, uniformed  impulses of his hero?

All the best,
Nonoise

In the past couple months I've bought items from China, Japan and Singapore, including two turntables and a pre-amp.  No duties, no tariffs, everything arrived on time...  For all the talk in this thread, I'd be curious to know how many have actually been affected by the on-going trade negotiations; with the exception of communist China, tariffs (if any) should be a flat 10% for the 90 days since talks began. My hope is that the folks here know more about audio than they do about international trade.

Talk is irrelevant for many.   Most will only care if or when they are personally impacted.  It appears to be starting but only time will tell 

We  can easily predict where this all going, present tariff regime unsustainable, alterations only a matter of time. In any case I fully expect there will be less free trade long into the future, memories long and nationalism/protectionism increased. This means less competition which in turn means higher long term prices, in this 'new' economic world consumers will be squeezed meaning less consumption. Add to this so many other constraints on growth such as AI, environment, aging populations, and so many others. Fewer and fewer humans will be productive going into future, AI alone will displace millions, perhaps billions. 

Many are advocating running balanced budgets and controlling debt, in order for that to happen humans must be far more self sufficient than at present or planned for into future. With the above constraints I don't see this happening.