Increased Shipping Rates from China

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2 minutes ago, rickca said:

The rates are in the Universal Postal Union treaty, I haven't looked up the details.  Apparently, China and other developing countries have since 1969 been assessed lower rates than wealthier nations.  It is cheaper to ship from Beijing to New York than it is to ship from San Francisco to New York.

That is indeed true.

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On 10/17/2018 at 1:24 PM, Superdad said:

 We receive a fair number of orders from China each month and lately even FedEx delivery is taking 12 days to deliver.  

Maybe you'll change your tune if/when your products are totally copied and sold for 1/4 of the price.  And don't think they can't be, if you only knew what they do copy you'd probably shit yourself.  

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1 minute ago, Superdad said:

 

Specialty silicon chips (high performance voltage regulators, FPGAs, high-speed isolators, clocks, DACs, etc.) and better spec'd passives (such as Murata MLCCs, etc.) are not available any cheaper to manufacturers in China than to any US manufacturer.  And I've yet to read of any counterfeit Linear Tech LT3045 or Silicon Labs clock synthesizer.  So it is not as if they can clone and produce for significantly less--though of course they can choose to operate on extremely thin margins.

Guess you don't fully get how they reverse engineer and can produce at significantly less overhead such as labor costs.  

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3 minutes ago, Shadders said:

Hi,

Being in the UK, i am not sure i understand the comments.

 

Does increasing the import duty on non-USA goods mean that they become more expensive, allowing USA companies to compete ?

 

Isn't this a good thing ?

Oh wow, finally someone that gets it.  😁

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You can't please everyone it's nearly impossible.  However, as a small business in the USA you can certainly do your part and that starts by sourcing parts in the USA and not pointing fingers at the White House.  While I don't like Schitt sonically, one has to admire their model and its success.  They have proven that it can be done on US soil and I've said it for years that it can.