Yeah, forgot to mention it is good the other 10% was not added on to this. But Phase one is simply (mostly) agriculture, which in 20/20 hindsight probably neither China nor the USA would ever go down that road again, too much backlash. Better to just have the 25% on more or less everything to 'dilute' the backlash. Those 'pesky' farmers were noisy, on news and all, as a specific united group. I see under the classification now ASIC's are called 'electronic components' or some such. Which is too bad because there was some talk of exempting I think it was laptops for Christmas a while back? (Not sure if desktops).
Anyway, that would maybe be the next thing taken out of the tariff IMHO, but we are gonna, 'specific' consumer products by name, to lessen the pressure. miss that loophole I guess. I'm just 'wizing in the creek' here ..not like at these prices for ASIC equipment, even without the tariffs, at 10c kWh electric I could realistically spring for any equipment anyway. But, like an old 'retired' HOME ASIC miner (now defunct species) I like to follow my quaint historical past and/or see how others with better options are dealing with all this.
