… Dropshippers who fulfill orders directly from abroad would be affected, as would small businesses importing components, parts, or supplies in batches under $800. Small orders from platforms like Etsy or eBay coming from China could cost consumers more, too. …
… Valve just imported roughly 50 tons of “Game Consoles” into the United States in the two-day period between May 1st and April 30th, according to import records viewed by The Verge. …
… We still have a lot of customers in China. We try to help… For example, we are still supplying in-car inference chips because they’re still below the threshold of what GPU is allowed to sell in the China market. …
… The Trump administration particularly wants to move manufacturing out of China and reduce this dependency on China. A lot of companies, big companies, want to move their supply chains to get them out of those risky parts of the world. …
… He’s had to balance the company’s massive business interest in China with US policymakers’ concerns, and he’s worked to appease Trump for favorable regulatory decisions, without alienating too many Apple employees and customers in the process. …
… We had done a lot of work to get our supply chain out of China, and the big remaining dependency that we had was batteries, which was public. We fortunately had a decent supply of batteries on hand, but we had to, stand up a new supply chain for batteries independent of China in very short order. …
… On tariffs, the biggest issue is the $2 billion bill for our imported parts. Because we make the most in the US, we import the most parts. We have a lot of stackable tariffs. There’s fentanyl tariffs, Section 301 tariffs from China. …
… Ford CEO Jim Farley has warned that allowing China to sell its cars in the States would be a death blow for Detroit. Rivian has imported its own fleet of Chinese cars for benchmarking purposes. …
… And since China controls the world’s battery supply, all countries could eventually benefit from the improved safety. …
… Last year, I believe 42% of our revenue was point of customer in the United States, 25% of our point of customer is China, about 17% is EMEA, and then the rest of the world. So China has been very important for us. …