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2024/06/01

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June 1, 2024

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Everyone chill, GPUs and motherboards aren't about to be walloped with a massive tariff after all

Last week we reported on the supposed application of a 25% import tariff into the US on Chinese-made GPUs, motherboards, cases and more which was due to come into force this June and cause a spike in prices. Turns out, that's not happening after all. To our best understanding, it all goes something like this. PC Mag picked up on a Federal Trade documentannouncing that the Biden administration would further extend certain Trump-era tariffs for another year and took that to mean graphics cards, motherboards and other PC-relevant assemblies made in China were about to be walloped with a 25% tariff upon landing in the US.

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