Will (say) a Bambu X1C increase from $1500 +145% to $3675 in the USA? If, so how soon?
Not quite as the declared value on which tarifs are applied is lower than the sales value. Still, quite a significant increase. @krellboy started tracking US sale prices first here:
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Unfortunately thereâs another possibility due to the high total price - just not sell in the US until this is resolved.
Land Rover paused all US shipments a few days ago. Thereâs probably others.
With things changing so rapidly, companies canât afford to pay the huge tariffs to get things into the US. Once the tariff is paid, they accumulate inventory that has lots of costs built in. Itâs a huge mess.
Many companies are forfeiting their cargos and giving them to the shipping companies to dispose of due to the high tariffs. Itâs going to bankrupt lots of companies with high value shipments in transit.
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Audi ceased imports last week, mentioning that US stocks should last for 2 months, when 20% tarifs were anounced. They are probably resuming shipping again but atm, no one is able to plan.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volkswagens-audi-holding-cars-us-ports-due-autos-tariff-2025-04-07/
Similarly, Razer Blades seem to no longer be shipped.
There are probably a whole load of other goods filling up the warehouses.
I do wonder how long itâll be until we can see effects on shipping.
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Whoâs Razor and why do I care? 
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A1 mini is up to $360 from $200.
As one might imagine, they are starting in with the exemptions.
China tariffs exempt phones, computers and other electronics.
https://thehill.com/business/5246072-trump-tariffs-exemptions-phone-semiconductor-chips-computers
Since we know that âeverything is computerâ I imagine this changes quite a bit.
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At least that will help out Apple, nividia, broadcom, etc. Now, I wonder if thereâs a link there somewhere. 
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Unfortunately 3d printers were not exempted.
Correct me if I wrong, but Bambu does have local stock for printers like P1\X1\A1 and increasing price for those is just a shity money grab
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Will the exemption on computers cover 3d printers?
It is all just a game HE is playing, and doesnât under stand the rules because he never read them and wonât listen to those that know how the game is played. Sooner or later he will bored, lose the game and then someone who does understand how things are suppose to work will try, hopefully succeed, to put things right. All we can do is not panic, keep calm and let it play out. Donât buy into his craziness.
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Yeah I went to buy my printer at microcenter and they had plenty of stock before the tariffs and they increased the price of the product they already had in store even though it was already here pre-tarrifs. That to me is scummy.
Imagine you own Microcenter.
How would you have handled the tariff increase in a way that isnât âscummyâ?
Include in your plan for tariffs both going up and going down.
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Inventory already inside the country is not subject to any new tariffs. Anyone selling existing stock with a âtariff costâ slapped on top of it is just making a quick buck.
Knowing how Microcenter operates, they are just adjusting the price based on what BambuLab tells them to.
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Raising prices to adjust for increased costs as soon is possible is a loss mitigation strategy.
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There is already people trying to get around the price hikes by abusing friends and relatives overseas.
But while shipping some expensive electronics board to a friend so he or she can post it to the US as a gift or such is no solution for a huge printer and it wonât work for long either.
While everyone here seems to be worried about how these Tweety solutions affect their consumer prices I am more worried about the aftermath here.
Companies and countries can only suck up so much or added costs until they have to get creative.
More and more companies are pulling out of the US, reduce their imports and all this creates severe market shifts, which in return further drive costs up.
But it also means that these market losses have to be somehow compensated for, which is not always possible in a hurry.
Here is AU things seem totally out of whack with those prices.
We have no nasty tariffs added to Chinaware but despite that even the usual Chinese selling platforms adjusted their pricing in line with the US prices.
Australia claims these tariffs create hundreds of billions in losses to our economy - while in reality the things we export to the US never provided much for our economy to begin with, it just made foreign investors richer.
What will we do once more and more countries follow suits and pull out of the US market, start imposing tariffs of their own?
None of that helps the consumer, non of that helps the economy in the long term.
And while everyone is worried about this bogus no one cares about how China keeps expanding and takes more and control over global markets.
The US isolating itself through Trump on one side and China made unstoppable through this on the other side.
If that is not well planned and aiming for start of another useless war than I donât know what isâŚ
That stock without tariffs has to be replaced by stock with tariffs. The vendor selling these goods needs more cash to replace sold inventory.
And vendors donât really profit. At the other end, when tariffs get removed, the vendor has stock on hand bought with tariffs. That money is already spent. They will have stock on hand they wonât be able to sell at price plus tariff prices so will end up selling below cost at the end of tariffs.
Have you not thought any of this through?
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By increasing the price on the items you ship in post tarrif and not the ones you got for far cheaper because now they get to charge $135 more for printers they already received.
OK, thatâs a legitimate plan, but thatâs only half of it. Like I said, imagine you run Microcenter. You need to account for tariffs going down also.
So if the tariffs go down, do the ones on the shelf stay at the higher price they were imported at? Is that the plan?