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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
Responding to this question could immediately dissolve into a political debate. One fact is clear and that is that tariffs are essentially taxes that become Federal Gov't general revenue that can be used anyway the Gov't desires such as fund its massive deficit. Whatever money the Trump Administration gave away to its citizens in its tax cuts of 2017 it is now going to claw back with higher taxes disguised as tariffs.
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
" Whatever money the Trump Administration gave away to its citizens in its tax cuts of 2017 it is now going to claw back with higher taxes disguised as tariffs. " When one door closes another door opens. Many US companies can benefit from the higher tariffs placed on goods from China. In fact I spoke to one of those companies last Thursday. I disagree that the tax cuts are going to claw their way back with higher taxes disguised as tariffs. In the end, what Trump wants is fair trade practice...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
"Whatever money the Trump Administration gave away to its citizens in its tax cuts of 2017 it is now going to claw back with higher taxes disguised as tariffs." Pretty much the only way to impact trade is to attack industries previously uneffected by imbalances. For instance, if the Canadians are charging a 270% tarrif on USA Dairy products, you can't resolve the problem using USA dairy. The only option is to offset using a previously non-effected industry, say Canadian Lumber. Obviously,...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
Duties on Chinese goods started at 12:01 a.m. Friday in Washington, just after midday in China. Another $16 billion of goods could follow in two weeks, Trump earlier told reporters, before suggesting the final total could eventually reach $550 billion, a figure that exceeds all of U.S. goods imports from China in 2017. https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...DxQ8?ocid=spartanntp
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
The Trump Administration today announced plans for a new round of $200 Billion worth of tariffs against China. https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10...ffs-trump/index.html Copy machines were on the original list but but were taken off leaving parts and consumables subject to a 10% tariff. It seems most suppliers have not taken actions to increase their prices. On the new list which could go in effect sometime after Aug 30th are: 8443.39.20 Electrostatic photocopying apparatus, operating by...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
It seems the prospects of tariffs going away anytime soon are fading. Eventually the cost of most goods in the copier industry are going to increase because of President Trump. SSG I'm okay with this! This may help in the long run because more clients may opt for something off lease, or even release their existing devices. In both cases I'll probably make more than selling new. You keep calling it a TAX, it's not a tax it's a tariff. When I go to the store and pay for an item, a tariff is...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
You can call it whatever you want tariff/ tax but if your cost of goods increases by up to 10% this fall solely due to actions by the Trump Administration we will see if you feel the same by Jan 2019. You seem a bit naive in thinking that a tariff is not a tax. I am sure Ricoh will not share you opinion on selling less new equipment in favor of used gear.
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
Trump is doing the right thing. As far as Ricoh is concerned, I couldn't care less of their opinion. It's all about putting food on the table for our families.
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
SSG I checked here and there is nothing new at least about the recent passing of the Senate bill. https://ustr.gov/about-us/poli...ffice/press-releases I believe that Trump would still have to sign the bill and there is nothing about the House of Representatives either. It doesn't look good
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
The Trump Administration announced today what they call a second tranche of tariffs against goods manufactured in China subject to 25% effective Aug 23. I think the copier/ printer industry once again escaped a direct hit. "8443.99.40 Parts of photocopying apparatus of subheading 8443.39.20 specified in additional U.S. note 4 to this chapter"
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
President Trump announced today, effective Sept 24 2018, a 10% tariff on a broad list of $200 B worth of Chinese goods. https://ustr.gov/about-us/poli...inalizes-tariffs-200 On this final list are all forms of copy devices. No mention of printers. No mention of toner. Unless China makes serious trade concessions to the USA, without retaliatory tariffs of its own on USA made goods sold in China, the 10% tariff will rise to 25% on Jan 01 2019. These devices are on the final tariff list,...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
SSG Thanx for keeping this thread up to date! Kudos The economy is doing so well here in the US that I don't think many will care. I will use this to my advantage to get clients to move now. Now, I hope they do care! Art
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
Yup, it's a pretty BIG Hammer! I heard a radio report that the US trade debt rose significantly in July. I'm thinking what you stated is that "many of the manufacturers have stuffed thier warehouses". That's probably why we haven't seen anything to date with increases.
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Re: HP should Buy Xerox
It goes way beyond phones with Huawei. Huawei is attempting to dominate the global telecom market for next generation, super high speed, 5G networks. The reason why the Chinese gov't is flipping out over the extradition issues with Meng, CFO Huawei is because she is considered to be a key technology Princess in China with deep family ties to the Chinese gov't. The Meng extradition issue is exposing China's "Made in China 2025" plan to replace the USA and other countries in select dominant...
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Re: Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
I'd love to see it but I think in the end very few people really care if it is made here. Many people claim that they want to buy US made goods but as soon as they have the opportunity to do so they go right back to the foreign, cheaper goods because of the cost. This whole buy USA thing has gotten so much attention recently due to Trump, but until people change their tune about wanting it as cheap as possible nothing will change. Policy on foreign made goods may force people to change but...
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Are You Building Relationships Or Burning Bridges?
You can be credible, reliable and loving but if it’s painfully obvious you only have your own interests at heart people will see through your charade. They will call you out for what you are, an empty suit. Whatever the position you have in sales, you’re the face of the company. You're the living testament of the corporate brand and its values. This places you in a unique position whether you believe or not. I encourage everyone in sales to think about the following... all of you have blind...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
In June 2016, it must be embarrassing to be personally associated as a Republican. Donald Trump is so associated with vague taking points and un-veted out political positions that he cannot possibly win the general election regardless of how dumb his "favorite" Americans are. I understand that American politics is based upon tribes that will always vote for their political affiliation but this election season will feature the permanent demise of the last eight years of the obstructionist...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
I am not a Trump supporter. However, are you suggesting that the candidate of the alternative party has fewer faults?
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Thus, I am one of his "dumb" supporters! The countless others could do nothing for the 6 trillion of debt, maybe he can. I'm willing to give him a shot because most others whether dems or repubs have stunk in the last twenty years. Other than that, I'm proud to support Trump
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
Donald Trump's unfavorability level is at 70%, the highest since announcing his presidential campaign, according to a new poll out Tuesday. According to the new Washington Post/ABC News survey , 7 out of 10 American adults have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican presumptive presidential nominee. That's a significant reversal from a few weeks ago when Trump's polling seemed to be trending upward. Just 29% reported having a favorable opinion of Trump in the new poll. Among Hispanic...
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I would fall into the unfavorable camp in this poll but that doesn't mean I'm not going to vote for him. There is nothing that can be said about Trump that will make me prefer Hillary...NOTHING.
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
The fact that the democrat and republican parties are essentially the same these days are an incentive to shake things up with Trump. The latest congress was elected to stop Obamas shredding of the Constitution, and they have done nothing. Might be time for a businessman to eliminate some of these massive federal agencies and put us on a more fiscally responsible track. Trump has stirred up a hornets nest with immigration, we cant continue to have open borders. The media propaganda machine...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
The world press is reporting great concern over the possibility that Trump could become President.
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Liberal, liberal, liberal all except FOX. Excellent CEO's people surround them selves with excellent and knowledgeable people. Trump will do the same if he wins. As for the world press, Trump hates the press and the press hates Trump
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And George H.W. Bush didn't announce that he was going to vote for the Democratic nominee either but you wouldn't know it by listening to the libral networks you site above. Is it a "story" when one person claims something that can't be substatiated? Snopes.com..."all the news about his (George H.W. Bush) voting for Hillary Clinton so far is hearsay relayed by someone else." (That someone else was a Kennedy.) If I say I heard Bill Clinton say he was going to vote for Trump, is CNN obligated...
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I'm an "old white guy" and I'm voting for Trump. My son is a "young white guy" along with being a member of a union (Police), he is voting for Trump, he also tells me that most in his union support Trump and will vote for him rather than Hillary. Go back 4 or eight years ago and this entire group would have supported the democrats.
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Re: First big annocment
Ricoh BW office refresh and C6000/C7500 replacements. Xerox WC7700 series should be here any day Eventually the new FX MFP color design (LED and new toner and color trickle to the US. Those new FX color 800 and 1000 productions sytems could make a big impact at the high end, given the added toner fuctionality and combined iGen/DC/X700 attributes. Memjet is once again on the horizon and may come out with some interesting consumer level printers, wide format systems, and label making products.
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Guy Steals Millions in Printer Toner from Cancer Hospital
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Republican Nomination "Who Gets Your Vote?"
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10 Ways to Close Net New Business #5 of #10
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How to argue with the boss -- and win
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Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
If you've been in the copier industry as long as I have, then you'll remember that Xerox and Kodak manufactured copiers in United States. In later years Kodak removed themselves from the SMB market for copiers and Xerox finally succumbed to outsourcing their copier manufacturing to Fuji-Xerox. In a recent press release HP stated they wanted to reinvent the $55 billion dollar copier industry. Since, I'm looking for numbers, I figured the evaluation of the entire copier industry was a good...
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Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
If you've been in the copier industry as long as I have, then you'll remember that Xerox and Kodak manufactured copiers in United States. In later years Kodak removed themselves from the SMB market for copiers and Xerox finally succumbed to outsourcing their copier manufacturing to Fuji-Xerox. In a recent press release HP stated they wanted to reinvent the $55 billion dollar copier industry. Since, I'm looking for numbers, I figured the evaluation of the entire copier industry was a good...
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57 Days of Selling Copiers "Day 4"
What a night it was last night. The Giants vs the Packers or Trump vs Clinton, after watching 15 minutes of the Giant vs the Packers I switched to Trump vs Clinton. I tell you, Trump vs Clinton was a whole heck of a lot more entertaining than the Giants game! Arrggg, Monday mornings, I hate em, you hate em, we all hate them. I think I finally feel asleep some where around mid-night, thus I had a hard time getting this old bag o bones moving in the AM. I had a 9AM appointment with an existing...
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In Sales? Time To Get Your Swagger On
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Trump calls himself fan of Sharp
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Apple partner Sharp’s planned US manufacturing rumored for first half of year as Japan PM meets Trump
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Toshiba looking to see more of its many assets (Sale of Toshiba Tec Quicker Way to Generate Cash)
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5 Things Businesses Should NOT to Do on Social Media
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57 Days of Selling "Day 25"
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USA vs China Tariffs for MFPs
When most of us retired last night the news was telling us that President Trump had rolled back the tariffs to December 15th and that certain products would be removed from that list for health, safety and national security concerns. I too thought that meant that copiers/MFP's was pushed back to the 15th of December because the news made mention about other tech items such as phones, laptops, tablets. I needed to dig into this a little more today. Below is the press release from USTR that...
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Kyocera shifts China production to Vietnam to avoid Trump tariffs
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of May 2009)
The most interesting topic this week was the increase in tariffs that the United States imposed on China. That 10% tariff now increases to 25%, and I'm sure in the next few weeks we'll see price increases. Just this week SSG (p4photel member) kept the thread going with some interesting threads. Make sure you check those out. https://www.p4photel.com/topic/trump-to-raise-tariffs-on-chinese-goods-this-friday Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 05/17/09...
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Re: Miscellaneous Itemized Deductions
I assume you are talking about the changes that the Trump administration put in place which have nothing to do with the 2017 filing many of us are working on now. I am nowhere close to a tax professional so don't take anything I say here as gospel. I am not aware of those business deductions being removed. However, with the new higher standard deduction, it is very likely that most of us will be filing short forms next year. It doesn't mean that we don't get the deductions...quite the...
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Re: Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
I wonder if there is a preferred supplier of copiers to the Trump organization? Any arm twisting would likely start there. With the USA's withdrawal from the TPP, a relocation of the copier industry seems unlikely. Multiple copier manufacturers already produce their toner in the USA. Living in Canada, with the high US $, a copier produced in the USA would be a distinct disadvantage. I am reasonably certain that the USA is the largest market for copiers in the world.