Re: Jones Act, anyone?
This will have the same effect as the Jones Act, a deeply protectionist act limiting maritime transport between US ports to ships built by US yards. As the US basically has no competencies any more to build commercial ships, this means the existing hulls are so valuable that 40+ years-old ships are still in service - with safety rules in force at launch time still grandfathered in.
And crewed by US nationals, further increasing costs. But in response to the Jones Act, shipping companies kinda routed around the problem by creating the Panamanian & Liberian shipping registeries, which are effectively US controlled, and naturally more 'tax efficient'. But Jones Act has some other curious quirks, eg-
These provisions also require that at least three-fourths of the crew members be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The steel of foreign repair work on the hull and superstructure of a U.S.-flagged vessel is limited to ten percent by weight. This restriction largely prevents Jones Act ship owners from refurbishing their ships at overseas shipyards.
And the USS Gerald R. Fnord-
The ship has left the operational theater in order to undergo a first stage of repairs and refueling operations at Crete Naval Base in Souda Bay, Greece. The ship later sailed to Split, Croatia at the local naval shipyards for a second and more extensive stage of reparations.
Which is having it's toilets fixed, along with the reinstallation of 1,000 new (presumably American-made) matresses to replace the ones lost in a 'laundry fire'.. Which seems to have spread extensively and damaged a lot of it's berthing spaces. Which is something that isn't supposed to happen to a warship given fires at sea are kinda bad. But I digress..
Given the fact that there are basically no US manufacturers for home routers (design, development, components and assembly, not just badge engineering), this will keep insecure routers afloat longer, not shorter.
It'll be fine. Spac-X is building a gigafab that's going to use novel physics to make a massive Texas chip shop, because everything is bigger in Texas, including Musk's ego. But it also has Intel, AMD, Nvidia,, Qualcomm, Broadcom as all-American IT giants, along with Apple, if you're in the market for a curvaceous white router.. But very little of the production done in America, including the software development. So it'll be fine. Ish. I think Intel makes Ethernet & WiFi glue chips in Haifa, and those fab plants haven't started smoking, yet. If they do, then maybe tax incentives will mean they get rebuilt in the USA. Other costs will make product more expensive, but such is capitalism.
