US consumers are in a difficult time while Trump administration trade wars are warming up. Although many economists envisaged higher prices on most finished products, some companies hesitated to set up numbers on how big they would be a bulge.
In a recent interview with Telegraph (Digital Trends Noticed), the Acer CEO Jason Chen was a little more precise: retail prices on laptop computers in the United States will increase by 10 percent. “We need to adjust the price of the end user to reflect the tariff … We think 10pc is likely to be given a given price price due to import tax. This is very easy.”
Trump’s 10 -pointed tariffs imposed on China is additional to other existing imported fees. Consumers will see higher prices on Acer laptops starting with March 2025.
Trump has threatened increased goods taxes and materials of several American shopping partners, including close allies such as Canada and Mexico and Chip Giant (and Acer Home Territory) Taiwan. Chen said that the movement of production centers from China, as Asrock had already done, could be a solution. Although Chen floated American production as an alternative, the costs of labor and material would make the United States a poor replacement for everyone but the most expensive finished products.
It does not help that Trump has more tariffs on essential import materials such as steel and aluminum, which further exacerbates production costs in domestic industries such as cars. Although the Bidana Administration has tried to encourage domestic chips production by the Law on Chips, it will take several years before increasing the capacity of the scale can increase.
Most laptops and other finished electronics were gathered in China, including the vast majority of the biggest players in the industry, such as Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus and HP. Everyone will face the same tariffs on finished laptops and other goods. As the Association of Consumer Technologies and others noticed, American customers will have to get used to growing computers and other electronics, perhaps in the length of Trump’s four -year term.