There’s also no easy way to circumvent the tariff, as it includes items such as “printed circuit board assemblies, constituting unfinished logic boards,” according to Tom’s Hardware. Not all graphics cards are made in China, but the majority are. It’s possible that NVIDIA’s logistics center move from Hong Kong to Taiwan has something to do with this case as well, as NVIDIA would then be shipping its products from Taiwan, rather than China, depending on how US Customs classifies Hong Kong these days. -this. We should know in a month, but a 25% import tax on graphics cards is likely to kill most sales in the US, especially since most people already find them too expensive. . This would of course affect AMD, NVIDIA and Intel as well as their partners in the same way, unless they manufacture their graphics cards outside of China… Note also that this measure will also probably affect motherboard manufacturers. .
OUF fortunately, we are in Europe and we will therefore not be subject to this tax if the exclusion is not renewed.
Update of the news of December 2, 2022 : The exclusion has been renewed, so no 25% tax for PCB-type products that come from China. This will therefore avoid a 25% increase in GPU and CM prices in the USA and therefore a potential increase here.
