Biden’s China Tariffs Are the End of an Era for Cheap Chinese Goods

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Obvious economic and ethical reasons aside, reducing our dependency on Chinese goods will be a huge benefit for mitigating climate change. The carbon cost of poorly regulated manufacture, as well as shipping such large volumes of commercial products around the planet is tremendous.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I wonder if this will have a bonus result of reducing Chinese counterfeit items on eBay and Amazon.

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Maybe. That’s one of the economic motives I mentioned. China follows the principle of territoriality in IP protection, leading to outright infringement in every industry. When a product line has completed manufacture, the factory will make some modifications to material quality and begin producing counterfeits around copyright to flood the market and eventually dilute and undercut the original manufacturer’s product line out of business.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Easy way to help with that is to not use Amazon.

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Well, maybe not the tariffs on EVs and solar panels.

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That would be true if domestic sales were waning due to constraint.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Good.

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• HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Good

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Temu has gone bankrupt overnight.

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