• Re: PCB mfrs & the tariffs

    From Don Y@blockedofcourse@foo.invalid to sci.electronics.design on Tue Aug 12 01:09:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes. INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)

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  • From bitrex@user@example.net to sci.electronics.design on Tue Aug 12 15:11:02 2025
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    On 8/11/2025 11:49 AM, Phil Hobbs wrote:
    John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org> wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I guess
    that means the tariff is working.)

    Thanks, Guys.
    John


    Macrofab is one werCOve used recently, but only for USG work. Otherwise itrCOs
    all PCBWay, tariff or no tariff.

    Cheers

    Phil Hobbs




    I priced out some US manufacturers and at least in quantities of
    hundreds to low thousands of two-layer boards, even assuming a 30% EU
    tariff it was still a toss up between them and Aisler.
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  • From bitrex@user@example.net to sci.electronics.design on Tue Aug 12 20:21:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I guess
    that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out
    a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..
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  • From Don Y@blockedofcourse@foo.invalid to sci.electronics.design on Tue Aug 12 18:30:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/12/2025 5:21 PM, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I guess that
    means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)

    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth doesn't tend to end up
    a net win..

    Ah, but the EXPORTING COUNTRY was going to be paying the tariffs, right?
    Sure sounds like John (OP) is picking up the tab -- directly or indirectly. And, either cutting into his profit margin OR passing those costs along to
    his customers.

    [It would have been a great exercise to take a snapshot of all domestic
    prices before and after tariffs were put in place to see how many
    domestic sources bumped up their prices to take advantage of the
    extra "margin" made available from importers]

    Maybe they are all chinese??
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  • From bitrex@user@example.net to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 02:49:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/12/2025 9:30 PM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 5:21 PM, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)

    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math
    out a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    Ah, but the EXPORTING COUNTRY was going to be paying the tariffs, right?
    Sure sounds like John (OP) is picking up the tab -- directly or indirectly. And, either cutting into his profit margin OR passing those costs along to his customers.

    [It would have been a great exercise to take a snapshot of all domestic prices before and after tariffs were put in place to see how many
    domestic sources bumped up their prices to take advantage of the
    extra "margin" made available from importers]

    Maybe they are all chinese??

    Incidentally some buyers of Chinese PCBs on Reddit noticed that some US courier companies (ahem, UPS) are charging substantial additional fees
    on top of the tariffs to do the customs clearance paperwork, that the
    shippers aren't doing.

    Probably not a big deal on large runs but a couple hundred extra in fees
    on small batches is galling. All US citizens are entitled to clear their
    own shipments but AFAIK it's not made obvious how to go about it.
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  • From Jeroen Belleman@jeroen@nospam.please to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 10:24:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out
    a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to
    understand that.

    Jeroen Belleman
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  • From Phil Hobbs@pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 11:49:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 9:30 PM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 5:21 PM, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes. INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)

    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math
    out a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    Ah, but the EXPORTING COUNTRY was going to be paying the tariffs, right?
    Sure sounds like John (OP) is picking up the tab -- directly or indirectly. >> And, either cutting into his profit margin OR passing those costs along to >> his customers.

    [It would have been a great exercise to take a snapshot of all domestic
    prices before and after tariffs were put in place to see how many
    domestic sources bumped up their prices to take advantage of the
    extra "margin" made available from importers]

    Maybe they are all chinese??

    Incidentally some buyers of Chinese PCBs on Reddit noticed that some US courier companies (ahem, UPS) are charging substantial additional fees
    on top of the tariffs to do the customs clearance paperwork, that the shippers aren't doing.

    Probably not a big deal on large runs but a couple hundred extra in fees
    on small batches is galling. All US citizens are entitled to clear their
    own shipments but AFAIK it's not made obvious how to go about it.


    Just use DHL.

    cheers

    Phil Hobbs
    --
    Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
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  • From Don Y@blockedofcourse@foo.invalid to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 05:03:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/12/2025 11:49 PM, bitrex wrote:
    Ah, but the EXPORTING COUNTRY was going to be paying the tariffs, right?
    Sure sounds like John (OP) is picking up the tab -- directly or indirectly. >> And, either cutting into his profit margin OR passing those costs along to >> his customers.

    Maybe they are all chinese??

    Incidentally some buyers of Chinese PCBs on Reddit noticed that some US courier
    companies (ahem, UPS) are charging substantial additional fees on top of the tariffs to do the customs clearance paperwork, that the shippers aren't doing.

    Probably not a big deal on large runs but a couple hundred extra in fees on small batches is galling. All US citizens are entitled to clear their own shipments but AFAIK it's not made obvious how to go about it.

    I've been largely insulated with "favors" from friends' businesses
    taking on the fab and assembly of my boards. A batch of cookies
    or a few dozen brownies to keep the folks on the line smiling and
    I'm golden. "Oh, look! Don's here!"

    My only real concern is Taiwan and what an "intervention" there
    will do to supply lines. I can retool for other components, in
    reasonably short order. But, there are almost two dozen distinct
    designs (products) involved and it would be a real PITA to have to
    tweak each of them.

    OTOH, I suspect there will be other players who stand a lot more to
    lose than I and have a lot thinner margins in which to operate!
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  • From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 00:27:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 13/08/2025 6:24 pm, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math
    out a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to understand that.

    DT & Co see tariffs as a tax they can collect from everybody, so they
    can reduced the progressive taxes which fall more heavily on the rich -
    which is to say - them.

    This isn't what they tell their supporters, whose hip pockets are going
    to be hit, but Trump has been liar all his life. It's hard to say what
    DT & Co do understand. Trump does seem to be pretty clever, but he's
    also pig ignorant and has no interest in becoming less ignorant.

    As an egomaniac, he's not going to be willing to realise quite how
    ignorant he is.
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From john larkin@jl@glen--canyon.com to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 07:56:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:24:04 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out
    a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to >understand that.

    Jeroen Belleman

    If a country imports everything and produces nothing (because the
    imports are cheap!) it will eventually turn into Sudan.

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  • From bitrex@user@example.net to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 11:27:27 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/13/2025 7:49 AM, Phil Hobbs wrote:
    bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 9:30 PM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 5:21 PM, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.N++ INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was >>>>> cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)

    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math
    out a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    Ah, but the EXPORTING COUNTRY was going to be paying the tariffs, right? >>> Sure sounds like John (OP) is picking up the tab -- directly or indirectly. >>> And, either cutting into his profit margin OR passing those costs along to >>> his customers.

    [It would have been a great exercise to take a snapshot of all domestic
    prices before and after tariffs were put in place to see how many
    domestic sources bumped up their prices to take advantage of the
    extra "margin" made available from importers]

    Maybe they are all chinese??

    Incidentally some buyers of Chinese PCBs on Reddit noticed that some US
    courier companies (ahem, UPS) are charging substantial additional fees
    on top of the tariffs to do the customs clearance paperwork, that the
    shippers aren't doing.

    Probably not a big deal on large runs but a couple hundred extra in fees
    on small batches is galling. All US citizens are entitled to clear their
    own shipments but AFAIK it's not made obvious how to go about it.


    Just use DHL.

    cheers

    Phil Hobbs


    Yeah, they seem to know how to not do that if you pick the all inclusive shipment package, but unfortunately in my area DHL tends to have the
    worst drivers and last mile customer service of all of them..
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  • From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 01:40:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 14/08/2025 12:56 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:24:04 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out >>> a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to
    understand that.

    If a country imports everything and produces nothing (because the
    imports are cheap!) it will eventually turn into Sudan.

    Actually, creating a mess like the Sudan does take a war or two.

    No country is going to import everything and produce nothing - if the
    don't produce anything, they have nothing to sell and won't be able to
    pay for any of their imports.

    Trump does seem to working on getting the US into something approaching
    that state - if the people who used to sell their products into the US
    haven't got a reliable market, because Trump keeps changing his mind
    about tariffs, they will sell their stuff elsewhere, and won't have any
    US dollar income to pay for imports from the US. In theory the US could
    gear up to manufacture the stuff they used to import, but that takes
    time, and in the meantime the US won't have the income to buy the stuff
    they need from overseas.

    It won't be a mess like the Sudan, but it won't be fun to live through.
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Jeroen Belleman@jeroen@nospam.please to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 17:59:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/13/25 16:56, john larkin wrote:
    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:24:04 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out >>> a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to
    understand that.

    Jeroen Belleman

    If a country imports everything and produces nothing (because the
    imports are cheap!) it will eventually turn into Sudan.


    You sound like my late father, who would also always try to
    counter my theses by going to absurd extremes. Surely the US
    can sell things it can do better and cheaper than any other
    country? Surely it has industries that actually produce
    something that other countries want?

    DT's fallacy is that he thinks money is the goal rather than
    the means.

    (I note that Switzerland may abandon its project to buy F35s,
    as a retaliation against DT's tariffs. Other countries also
    actively shun US products. This is bad for your economy, but
    alas, the US is not currently a reliable trade partner.)

    Jeroen Belleman
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  • From bitrex@user@example.net to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 12:13:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/13/2025 10:27 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
    On 13/08/2025 6:24 pm, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math
    out a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to
    understand that.

    DT & Co see tariffs as a tax they can collect from everybody, so they
    can reduced the progressive taxes which fall more heavily on the rich - which is to say - them.

    This isn't what they tell their supporters, whose hip pockets are going
    to be hit, but Trump has been liar all his life. It's hard to say what
    DT & Co do understand. Trump does seem to be pretty clever, but he's
    also pig ignorant and has no interest in becoming less ignorant.

    As an egomaniac, he's not going to be willing to realise quite how
    ignorant he is.


    Presidential immunity sure beats going to prison for screwing kids
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  • From John R Walliker@jrwalliker@gmail.com to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 17:22:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 13/08/2025 16:59, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
    On 8/13/25 16:56, john larkin wrote:
    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:24:04 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was >>>>> cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math
    out
    a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to
    understand that.

    Jeroen Belleman

    If a country imports everything and produces nothing (because the
    imports are cheap!) it will eventually turn into Sudan.


    You sound like my late father, who would also always try to
    counter my theses by going to absurd extremes. Surely the US
    can sell things it can do better and cheaper than any other
    country? Surely it has industries that actually produce
    something that other countries want?

    DT's fallacy is that he thinks money is the goal rather than
    the means.

    (I note that Switzerland may abandon its project to buy F35s,
    as a retaliation against DT's tariffs. Other countries also
    actively shun US products. This is bad for your economy, but
    alas, the US is not currently a reliable trade partner.)

    Jeroen Belleman

    This may be more related to the substantial price increases
    in what the Swiss believed was a fixed price contract.
    John
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  • From john larkin@jl@glen--canyon.com to sci.electronics.design on Wed Aug 13 20:03:26 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:24:04 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out
    a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to >understand that.

    Jeroen Belleman

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/08/13/breitbart-business-digest-modern-trade-theory-backs-trumps-tariff-playbook/

    "Put simply, when tariffs serve as a negotiating lever rather than a
    permanent regime, and when they succeed in eliciting economically
    valuable concessions, the underlying logic of the paper tilts further
    toward support."

    DT seems to know how to make deals. And he's on our side.



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  • From Gerhard Hoffmann@dk4xp@arcor.de to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 09:05:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    Am 14.08.25 um 05:03 schrieb john larkin:

    DT seems to know how to make deals. And he's on our side.

    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?
    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    Cheers, Gerhard


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  • From Don Y@blockedofcourse@foo.invalid to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 00:52:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/14/2025 12:05 AM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    Oh, no! You're mistaken! It is the *seller* who absorbs that
    cost! That was made clear to us, early on!

    And, *Mexico* paid for the wall he built in his first term
    in office. Again, we were assured this!

    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?
    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    Drumpf has a pretty naive understanding of ... well, just about
    EVERYTHING.

    OTOH, he obviously realizes imposing the PROMISED tariffs
    on China will create enough noticeable pain that his base
    will flinch at his "deal making" (in)ability -- which is
    why he keeps kicking the can down the road.

    As they say, "TACO".

    What will be interesting is how he will react *when* Xi goes
    into Taiwan. Shirley, the markets will freak. He will
    loudly threaten and claim NATO needs to back him -- because,
    of course, he has a naive understanding of NATO, as well.

    (sigh) He is a time-limited entity. The question is whether
    or not the Republican Party will ever "stand" for anything,
    again. Or, if they, too, are time-limited entities.
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  • From john larkin@jl@glen--canyon.com to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 07:59:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:05:14 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
    wrote:

    Am 14.08.25 um 05:03 schrieb john larkin:

    DT seems to know how to make deals. And he's on our side.

    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    I don't like him, but it is refreshing to have someone with common
    sense in charge.


    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    They are still crazy cheap. And the deal with China ain't done yet.
    The 135% is a threat, and China's economy (and indeed China's society)
    is fragile just now.


    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?

    Free economies have this nice habit of adjusting themselves.

    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    Somebody was just dumb, I guess.


    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    We need independent rich people because they can invest, or they got
    rich by creating wealth. Look at Russia and Cuba and N Korea.

    The Laffer Curve is real, and it invoves decades-long causalities.



    Cheers, Gerhard

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  • From john larkin@jl@glen--canyon.com to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 08:03:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:52:30 -0700, Don Y
    <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

    On 8/14/2025 12:05 AM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    Oh, no! You're mistaken! It is the *seller* who absorbs that
    cost! That was made clear to us, early on!

    And, *Mexico* paid for the wall he built in his first term
    in office. Again, we were assured this!

    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?
    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    Drumpf has a pretty naive understanding of ... well, just about
    EVERYTHING.

    OTOH, he obviously realizes imposing the PROMISED tariffs
    on China will create enough noticeable pain that his base
    will flinch at his "deal making" (in)ability -- which is
    why he keeps kicking the can down the road.

    As they say, "TACO".

    What will be interesting is how he will react *when* Xi goes
    into Taiwan. Shirley, the markets will freak. He will
    loudly threaten and claim NATO needs to back him -- because,
    of course, he has a naive understanding of NATO, as well.

    (sigh) He is a time-limited entity. The question is whether
    or not the Republican Party will ever "stand" for anything,
    again. Or, if they, too, are time-limited entities.

    What do the progressive Democrats stand for? I don't think even they
    know.


    I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

    - Will Rogers
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  • From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Fri Aug 15 02:12:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 14/08/2025 1:03 pm, john larkin wrote:
    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:24:04 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/13/25 02:21, bitrex wrote:
    On 8/12/2025 4:09 AM, Don Y wrote:
    On 8/11/2025 8:03 AM, John S wrote:
    Who is your go-to PCB manufacturing house?
    We need to settle on a domestic house because of the tariffs. (I
    guess that means the tariff is working.)

    Yes.-a INCREASING your cost to do business (if the domestic house was
    cheaper, you would have already been using it, right?)


    Even most conservative economists seemed to more quantitatively math out >>> a while back that some domestic manufacturers doing better at the
    expense of other domestic manufacturers getting kicked in the teeth
    doesn't tend to end up a net win..

    If you buy foreign products cheaper than they can be had domestically,
    the nett national wealth goes *up*, not down. DT & Co don't seem to
    understand that.

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/08/13/breitbart-business-digest-modern-trade-theory-backs-trumps-tariff-playbook/

    "Put simply, when tariffs serve as a negotiating lever rather than a permanent regime, and when they succeed in eliciting economically
    valuable concessions, the underlying logic of the paper tilts further
    toward support."

    DT seems to know how to make deals. And he's on our side.

    The deals he made when he was in business for himself lead to a string
    of spectacular bankruptcies. His book on the subject - "The Art of the
    Deal" - was ghost-written.

    His antics while setting up his tariff regime don't seem to have
    anything to do with making deals, but rather with trying to bully people
    to accepting his strange ideas about tariffs.

    And he's not on your side - he an egomaniac and cares only about how his antics make him look to his supporters (who have to be a remarkably
    gullible crew).
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Fri Aug 15 02:22:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 15/08/2025 1:03 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:52:30 -0700, Don Y
    <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

    On 8/14/2025 12:05 AM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    Oh, no! You're mistaken! It is the *seller* who absorbs that
    cost! That was made clear to us, early on!

    And, *Mexico* paid for the wall he built in his first term
    in office. Again, we were assured this!

    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?
    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    Drumpf has a pretty naive understanding of ... well, just about
    EVERYTHING.

    OTOH, he obviously realizes imposing the PROMISED tariffs
    on China will create enough noticeable pain that his base
    will flinch at his "deal making" (in)ability -- which is
    why he keeps kicking the can down the road.

    As they say, "TACO".

    What will be interesting is how he will react *when* Xi goes
    into Taiwan. Shirley, the markets will freak. He will
    loudly threaten and claim NATO needs to back him -- because,
    of course, he has a naive understanding of NATO, as well.

    (sigh) He is a time-limited entity. The question is whether
    or not the Republican Party will ever "stand" for anything,
    again. Or, if they, too, are time-limited entities.

    What do the progressive Democrats stand for? I don't think even they
    know.

    Clearly, you haven't asked any of them.

    I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

    - Will Rogers

    Any organised political party is undemocratic. Sadly, getting democratic agreement takes quite a while, and if you need to get things done, you
    can't be perfectly democratic. Proportional representation,
    multi-candidate electorates and the coalition governments they produce
    are a better approximation to democratic government than anything the US
    has.
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney
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  • From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Fri Aug 15 02:49:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 15/08/2025 12:59 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:05:14 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
    wrote:

    Am 14.08.25 um 05:03 schrieb john larkin:

    DT seems to know how to make deals. And he's on our side.

    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    I don't like him, but it is refreshing to have someone with common
    sense in charge.

    Donald Trump hasn't got common sense. He peddles popular delusions to
    people too dumb to realise that they are delusions

    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    They are still crazy cheap. And the deal with China ain't done yet.
    The 135% is a threat, and China's economy (and indeed China's society)
    is fragile just now.


    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?

    Free economies have this nice habit of adjusting themselves.

    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    Somebody was just dumb, I guess.

    Not a plausible hypothesis.

    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    We need independent rich people because they can invest, or they got
    rich by creating wealth. Look at Russia and Cuba and N Korea.

    Very wealthy people spend a lot of money on propaganda to that effect.

    At the moment the very rich in the US are vying with the oligarchs in
    Russia and the top party officials in North Korea in their enthusiasm
    for ripping off the rest of the population.

    Countries with a more nearly equal income distribution - not all that
    equal but a lot less extreme - do rather better.

    The Laffer Curve is real, and it involves decades-long causalities.
    The Laffer Curve was never much more than a scribble on a table napkin. Economists have played with the idea for centuries, but it isn't a
    useful way of thinking about what's actually going on, and is typically invoked by people who don't want to think about that.
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Jeroen Belleman@jeroen@nospam.please to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 21:21:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 8/14/25 16:59, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:05:14 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
    wrote:

    Am 14.08.25 um 05:03 schrieb john larkin:

    DT seems to know how to make deals. And he's on our side.

    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    I don't like him, but it is refreshing to have someone with common
    sense in charge.


    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    They are still crazy cheap. And the deal with China ain't done yet.
    The 135% is a threat, and China's economy (and indeed China's society)
    is fragile just now.


    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?

    Free economies have this nice habit of adjusting themselves.

    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    Somebody was just dumb, I guess.


    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    We need independent rich people because they can invest, or they got
    rich by creating wealth. Look at Russia and Cuba and N Korea.

    The Laffer Curve is real, and it invoves decades-long causalities.


    Yeah. What you need right now is a rich dictator and 347 million
    minions. You know what? You're getting there!

    Jeroen Belleman

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  • From john larkin@jl@glen--canyon.com to sci.electronics.design on Thu Aug 14 12:37:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:21:54 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/14/25 16:59, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:05:14 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
    wrote:

    Am 14.08.25 um 05:03 schrieb john larkin:

    DT seems to know how to make deals. And he's on our side.

    Don't make me laugh so hard early in the morning!

    I don't like him, but it is refreshing to have someone with common
    sense in charge.


    When the two of us buy the same boards at JLCPCB's,
    you have to pay +35 % to +135 % compared to me, depending
    on the moon phase.

    They are still crazy cheap. And the deal with China ain't done yet.
    The 135% is a threat, and China's economy (and indeed China's society)
    is fragile just now.


    It escapes me how you can see that as an advantage for you.
    Do you think you can inflate YOUR prices in proportion?

    Free economies have this nice habit of adjusting themselves.

    Why didn't you do this already in the past?

    Somebody was just dumb, I guess.


    That is nothing but a flat rate tax on YOU, designed to
    replace the progressive taxes on the really rich.

    We need independent rich people because they can invest, or they got
    rich by creating wealth. Look at Russia and Cuba and N Korea.

    The Laffer Curve is real, and it invoves decades-long causalities.


    Yeah. What you need right now is a rich dictator and 347 million
    minions. You know what? You're getting there!

    Jeroen Belleman

    Within that 347 million, the ratio of productive people divided by
    government employees is improving.

    Ditto the ratio of productive people to criminals.

    And, of course, it's OK to admire beautiful women again.

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  • From Bill Sloman@bill.sloman@ieee.org to sci.electronics.design on Fri Aug 15 23:08:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    On 15/08/2025 5:37 am, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:21:54 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
    <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

    On 8/14/25 16:59, john larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:05:14 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
    wrote:

    Am 14.08.25 um 05:03 schrieb john larkin:

    <snip>

    We need independent rich people because they can invest, or they got
    rich by creating wealth. Look at Russia and Cuba and N Korea.

    The Laffer Curve is real, and it invoves decades-long causalities.


    Yeah. What you need right now is a rich dictator and 347 million
    minions. You know what? You're getting there!

    Within that 347 million, the ratio of productive people divided by
    government employees is improving.

    The myth that government employees aren't productive is one that big
    business has been trying to spread since the 1930's.

    It's a remarkably gross over-simplification, but one that big n\business
    has spent a lot of money on propagating.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Myth

    Ditto the ratio of productive people to criminals.

    Making criminals part of the executive branch doesn't make them any less criminal.

    Calling inoffensive illegal immigrants criminals and throwing them out
    of the country is one way of improving the statistics, but it is also
    criminal libel, and a criminal abuse of procedure.

    And, of course, it's OK to admire beautiful women again.

    And grab them by the pussy? Donald Trump and his friend Jeffrey Epstein
    aren't great role models here.
    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney


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  • From Gerhard Hoffmann@dk4xp@arcor.de to sci.electronics.design on Fri Aug 22 16:23:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.electronics.design

    Am 13.08.25 um 13:49 schrieb Phil Hobbs:
    bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

    Just use DHL.


    < https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/dhl-post-pakete-usa-zollbestimmungen-100.html
    > (in German)

    DHL is just bailing out:

    Wegen neuer Zollvorschriften schr|nnkt DHL den Paketversand von
    Deutschland in die USA deutlich ein. Mit Ablauf des 22. August k||nnen
    Deutsche Post und DHL Paket vorerst keine Pakete und sogenannte
    Warenpost International von Gesch|nftskunden in die USA mehr annehmen
    und bef||rdern, teilte das Unternehmen mit.

    Because of the new customs regulations DHL will reduce the transport
    of parcels from .de to the US. After the 22. of August, German Post
    and DHL ( a subsidiary of German Post Service) will no longer accept
    & transport parcels and international wares-mails from commercial
    customers until further notice.

    Weiter hei|ft es vom deutschen Logistikkonzern, dass von Privatkunden vorerst nur noch Pakete in die USA bef||rdert werden, die als Geschenk deklariert sind und deren Inhalt nur bis zu 100 US-Dollar (aktuell
    etwa 86 Euro) wert ist. Pakete von Privatleuten, die mehr wert sind,
    k||nnen ab Samstag nur noch als teurere Expresssendungen in die USA verschickt werden. Bei allen Paketen von Gesch|nftskunden ist dies ab kommenden Dienstag der Fall.

    Furthermore the logistics company said that private customers can
    only send parcels that are declared as presents, less than $100
    worth.
    Worth > $100 will require to send it in express mode, for much higher
    prices. For company customers that already takes effect next Tuesday.

    Wie lange, ist unklar. In der Mitteilung von DHL hie|f es, dass
    hierbei wesentliche Fragen noch ungekl|nrt seien, "insbesondere,
    wie und von wem die Zollgeb|+hren k|+nftig zu erheben sind, welche zus|ntzlichen Daten erforderlich sind und wie die Daten|+bermittlung an
    die amerikanische Zollbeh||rde erfolgen soll". Zuvor hatten schon
    andere nationale Postfirmen gleiche Schritte unternommen, etwa die |usterreichische Post, die belgische bpost und die schwedisch-d|nnische Postnord.

    It is still unclear how long that will last. Important questions
    are still open: who will handle the customs, what additional data
    are required and how the data will be sent to US customs.
    Other national post companies have taken these steps already:
    Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark.

    Laut einem Erlass von US-Pr|nsident Donald Trump wird die Zollfreiheit
    f|+r Warenimporte mit einem Wert unter 800 Dollar ab dem 29. August abgeschafft. Pro Artikel sollen demnach Z||lle von 80 bis 200 Dollar
    f|nllig werden.

    Per ordre di Mufti the tariff exemptions for goods < $800 are gone.
    Instead there are tariffs from 80 to 200 $.

    ----

    Have fun etching boards for 0.98 each; a 3 day service for a cup of
    rice a day, and welcome back to the cotton fields. It will be the
    local kids who'll make the $3.99 T-shirts and no longer those hidden
    kid-slaves in BanglaDesh. A large step towards honesty.

    FLA and others have already reduced the minimum age to 14.


    cheers

    Gerhard


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