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Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

Richard Plinston

Re: Aren't you forgetting...

> it is more in the range of half that at retail,

You don't understand how retail price is set.

It may be that the tariff that had been paid was a smaller fraction of the retail price but retailers don't care about that, they just add their margin (up to 100%) to whatever cost price they have to pay.

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