Nice to see some reasoning to back up the gut reaction a lot of these tariff whinging blog posts produce. They tend to fall into two categories, from what I've seen. Either they offer no numbers or the numbers don't entirely make sense. Bonus if someone is in the comments with a reminder of skeevy or illegal practices the company has engaged in previously.
I think it was Catalyst that had a breakdown along the lines of: Chinese paperboard and plastic costs a few bucks per unit, the overwhelming majority of the cost goes to paying for IP and R&D in America/Europe, with a decent chunk of costs going to shipping and logistics. So you see, the cost of plastic is tripling, so we have to triple what we charge. Completely glossing over the fact that the majority of costs have not changed.
Nice to see some reasoning to back up the gut reaction a lot of these tariff whinging blog posts produce. They tend to fall into two categories, from what I've seen. Either they offer no numbers or the numbers don't entirely make sense. Bonus if someone is in the comments with a reminder of skeevy or illegal practices the company has engaged in previously.
I think it was Catalyst that had a breakdown along the lines of: Chinese paperboard and plastic costs a few bucks per unit, the overwhelming majority of the cost goes to paying for IP and R&D in America/Europe, with a decent chunk of costs going to shipping and logistics. So you see, the cost of plastic is tripling, so we have to triple what we charge. Completely glossing over the fact that the majority of costs have not changed.