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New Trump Tariffs Won't Include Fitness Trackers Or the Apple Watch (theverge.com)
According to Bloomberg, the next round of China tariffs won't include devices that receive and transmit voice data, a category that includes the Apple Watch, Fitbits, Sonos Speakers, and a host of other fitness trackers and home assistants. The Verge reports: The White House recently backed down on the rate at which the imports would be taxed. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported that listed goods would likely be taxed at only 10 percent. As recently as August, President Trump had considered setting the rate at 25 percent. Customs documents describe the category in vague terms, listing the devices as "machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data." But that vague category has come to encompass a wide range of personal tech, including fitness trackers and personal voice assistants. The Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, BeatsWL, AirPort, and Time Capsule all fall under the code, according to a letter submitted by Apple to the U.S. Trade Representative. Other categories of Apple products will still be affected by the tariff, including adapters, the Mac mini, and any circuit boards or internal components shipped individually to the United States.
Objectively you are the idiot. Or at the least delusional. Trump will not be removed or resign during his presidency. Mod me down but remember this comment when your delusional fantasy never comes true.
Good, him being impeached would do nothing other than give rise to a 'dagger in the back' legend and turn him into a martyr for the MAGA crowd. In any other democracy he would have been slapped with a no confidence vote in parliament followed by a new election but due to the nature of the US system you are stuck with him for another two years. Trump needs to be voted out of office in 2020, not just for the sake of the US but for the sake of the entire damn planet. The US is the Roman Empire of our time and we cannot afford to have an imbecile for an emperor. If, however, Trump is re-elected one can only hope that it will be healthy for the US to live through a full 8 years of his presidency as an object lesson in what it costs to indulge yourself with militant political tribalism and to vote for a president based on his entertainment value rather than his competence because that is really the only thing the bottom 90% in the USA are getting out of Trump. They are getting 'entertainment', they are being told what they want to hear while he slowly and methodically screws them over. Anybody who believes that a guy who lives in a glass tower named after himself and who shits into a gold plated toilet is 'a man of the people' and 'a friend of the little guy' is has less brains than an amoeba.