[sdiy] trade war component costs

[mark verbos]

One China Policy. Wait, Trump doesn’t know about that...




> On Apr 9, 2018, at 4:58 AM, john slee <indigoid at oldcorollas.org> wrote:
> 
> Hmmm. This made me wonder about Alpha. I'd long thought they were manufactured in Taiwan but Google hints that they're from China too
> 
> CTS pots (which I'd even never heard of before this morning... have always used ALPS/Alpha pots) apparently are made in Taiwan though.
> 
> For trade war targeting purposes, are Taiwan/China considered separate or unified?
> 
> John
> 
> On 8 April 2018 at 00:19, bbob <fluxmonk at gmail.com <mailto:fluxmonk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> switching to Allen Bradley type J pots immediately.  will make me be more thoughtful in what i build. 
> 
> oops, no longer in production.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org <mailto:mr at analogue.org>> wrote:
> On 6 April 2018 at 00:08, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net <mailto:tom at electricdruid.net>> wrote:
> We’ll see if it actually happens. A trade war between the US and China would clearly hurt both parties, so it doesn’t seem like a very smart move.
> 
> No worries! It's about saving American jobs in the first place - that's the smartness involved - so all the workers in the American component industry must be very happy now and American electronics manufacturers and hobbyists don't need to buy overseas anymore. Ehh
> 
> Personally I think that almost everything is too cheap these days. It makes all the more important stuff in the society look too expensive.
> 
> /mr
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