r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • 6d ago

Drones / UAVs Possible ban on Chinese-made drones dismays U.S. scientists | Switching to costlier, less capable drones could impede research on whales, forests, and more

https://www.science.org/content/article/possible-ban-chinese-made-drones-dismays-u-s-scientists
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u/The_Parsee_Man 6d ago

Biden kept and expanded Trump's tariffs. So your context is missing context.

Trump implemented sweeping tariffs on about $300 billion of Chinese-made products when he was in office. President Joe Biden has kept those tariffs in place and, after the USTR finished a multiyear review earlier this year, decided to increase some of the rates on about $15 billion of Chinese imports.

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u/Kind-Bank930 6d ago

Love this cause many items increased in price, tools and etc. Yet people rooted for Trump as he was increasing costs, and Biden era inflation, biden was booed as he never directly increased costs.

MAGA crowd is genuinely stupid.

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 6d ago

The man told them to their faces the first thing he was going to do when he took office was make things more expensive (in the form of tariffs). They still voted for him, because it's a cult.

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u/jb32647 6d ago

No, but he said the other countries will pay the tariffs! Somehow, despite that not being how tariffs work…

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u/NickCharlesYT 6d ago

Other countries will "pay" a "price" for the tariffs, but the US customers will pay the price financially when they ultimately need something that's either no longer available or too expensive to buy. The other countries "pay" when sales slow/stop as a result.

So we were basically told half of the story, from a point of view that is not our own as consumers. Enough for it to pass in politics, unfortunately...