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re: $1019 tariff charge for coffee grinder now that de minimis exemption expires
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:47 am to Ingeniero
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:47 am to Ingeniero
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here is no US alternative to this product. There is no American espresso industry to protect and onshore.
Yea, absolutely nothing you can buy in America that can replicate a single serve burr grinder from the UK
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Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:48 am to Flats
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You'll need to explain that. Why isn't "competition" doing that now? Why do we need the tariffs?
What the minimum wage in China? What is the minimum wage in the US?
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:48 am to BuckeyeGoon
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Because American wages can't compete with Chinese slave wages. That's the whole point of this entire thing.
So then the price will never go down. We'll onshore it, pay American wages, and you can choose between a $600 Chinese grinder with $1000 in tariffs or a $1600 American-made one. Winning!
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:49 am to Ingeniero
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Are you under the impression that the shipping notification is fake? Is the tariff made up?
Are you under the impression that someone with photoshop couldn't create shipping notification that says it was $1,000,000 instead of $1,019.42?
May be true, may not. But I require more than a screen shot with absolutely zero context. How much was the grinder? Is it some industrial level item. Is it only one or more than one? Have they spoken to DHL to see if there was a miscalculation? Has this guy provided the calculation of the tariff? They are supposed to give you one if you want it.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:49 am to Ingeniero
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So then the price will never go down. We'll onshore it, pay American wages, and you can choose between a $600 Chinese grinder with $1000 in tariffs or a $1600 American-made one. Winning!
why does teh American one cost that much again? Got a link to that specific one? Or are you just bleeding like teh bitch that you are?
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:49 am to BuckeyeGoon
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Because American wages can't compete with Chinese slave wages.
Right, so the tariffs raise the cost of the Chinese product so we can compete. Got all that. The post I responded to claimed that prices would come back down, and I'm just asking for an explanation of how that's going to happen. Will American wages go back down?
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:49 am to Ingeniero
Do you really need a coffee grinder? The tariffs are temporary.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:51 am to Ingeniero
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We'll onshore it, pay American wages, and you can choose between a $600 Chinese grinder with $1000 in tariffs or a $1600 American-made one. Winning!
Exactly, more Americans will have jobs and fancy coffee grinders.
Right now, we get the fancy coffee grinder, the UK gets their middleman cut and China gets another worker they can lock inside a factory with suicide nets outside the windows.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:52 am to LNCHBOX
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why does teh American one cost that much again? Got a link to that specific one? Or are you just bleeding like teh bitch that you are?
The only espresso grinder I can find made in America is a Zerno which appears to cost $1400 pre-tariff, and their blog post points out that even then their burrs are made in South Korea and would be subject to a 10% tariff. $700 for burrs x0.10 and the final cost is $1470 pre-tax.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:53 am to tigeraddict
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This post was edited on 5/15/25 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:57 am to Ingeniero
Breville Coffee Grinder
William Sonoma
$159.99
William Sonoma
$159.99
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:58 am to Ingeniero
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The only
Sounds like an opportunity for competition then. Some of you guys seem to be incapable of thinking big picture or long term.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:59 am to RT1941
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Breville Coffee Grinder
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Breville products are designed and engineered in Sydney, Australia, but manufactured and assembled in China
Commie cuck!
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:00 am to Ingeniero
Musk should buy Reddit it and shut it down on day one. Serves no purpose but to be an echo chamber for mentally ill people to need to be on more anxiety medication.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:01 am to Ingeniero
So, you're one of those people who still makes coffee at home?
This post was edited on 5/2/25 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:06 am to Ingeniero
Here’s something to think about. Who was giving a shite about all of the families and communities that suffered when we shipped their jobs overseas? Did you piss and moan every time a factory was shuttered here?
Rebuilding our manufacturing base is not going to be achieved without pain, so STFU with this dumbass shite.
Rebuilding our manufacturing base is not going to be achieved without pain, so STFU with this dumbass shite.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:06 am to Flats
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How does that work? What is the mechanism that lowers the price back to pre-tariff levels?
Moving production to the US eliminates the tariff. Allowing US companies to sell more overseas lowers production costs.
I thought this was common knowledge.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:06 am to baybeefeetz
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I mean tariffs make things more expensive until they don’t anymore. If anybody needs that explained to them, right or left, they’re a moron.
I guess I need it explained. This runs counter to everything I read in my old macroeconomics textbook that I dusted off the other day - the whole Competetive Advantage thing. If you get a chance, could you please explain? Thanks in advance!
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:06 am to Ingeniero
Never once in my life have I said “man, I’d really pay a premium for a coffee grinder. I just gotta have one.”
In other words, go buy some community for a little while and let this shite play out. Jesus
In other words, go buy some community for a little while and let this shite play out. Jesus
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:07 am to Ingeniero
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$1019 tariff charge for coffee grinder
So, we should continue letting countries tariff our items and implementing barriers to entry because a luxury item is now more expensive?
That's a dumb way to run an economy.
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