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The Father
·. No, fool! You double down! Unless you have a pair of 6.5's, in which case you split and then double down!
US Tariffs on Switzerland
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorA common theme is that if it happening to someone else, it's fine,. If it's happening to me, well then all hell will break loose! 🤣
Smith is the laughing stock of the knife world.
Selling sub par $300 fixed blades without even grinding the laser cutting marks off the handle edges and defending it when someone picks it up.
Claiming he’s using American steel when he wasn’t. But now happily says it’s not American steel because the one American steel company shut down. ( makers like him probably could have kept it open if they only bought steel from them )
And pushing the Trump vote, and being a Joe Rogan fanboy.
Another great steel maker is buying old American tooling like grinders and hammer presses and killing it
https://www.bakerforge.com/
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LesXL
·Now, if retail price for new swiss watches increases, I assume prices for second hand ones will too... As demand for it might rise.
Maybe something positive can be taken out of this situation. A potential buyer should rather invest the new price difference in a flight ticket, come to visit Switzerland or the rest of Europe, buy the watch here 😀
For the same new pricing, the buyers get the watch and a nice vacation.
On top of it, they spend money in Europe rather than the US 😀
It's a winning proposition!
Maybe something positive can be taken out of this situation. A potential buyer should rather invest the new price difference in a flight ticket, come to visit Switzerland or the rest of Europe, buy the watch here 😀
For the same new pricing, the buyers get the watch and a nice vacation.
On top of it, they spend money in Europe rather than the US 😀
It's a winning proposition!
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gatorcpa
··ΩF InvestiGatorMaybe something positive can be taken out of this situation. A potential buyer should rather invest the new price difference in a flight ticket, come to visit Switzerland or the rest of Europe, buy the watch here 😀
gatorcpa
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerSaw this posted on another forum...
"Kern was quoted in the NYT today saying Breitling would have to raise prices worldwide to offset the impact of the 39% American tariffs, and if they persist, reduce the company’s presence and investment in the United States."
"Breitling says it will eat some of the costs itself, pass some on to consumers in the U.S., and impose some on customers worldwide. More significantly, Megan McCardle had an analysis piece in the Washington Post making the case that such measures quickly become the status quo….that they are priced in both by industry and the revenue-hungry treasury."
I don't have subscriptions to either, so if anyone does and can confirm this, that would be great. I fully understand why brands would do this, but I wish the people who asked for this would be the only ones paying for it...
"Kern was quoted in the NYT today saying Breitling would have to raise prices worldwide to offset the impact of the 39% American tariffs, and if they persist, reduce the company’s presence and investment in the United States."
"Breitling says it will eat some of the costs itself, pass some on to consumers in the U.S., and impose some on customers worldwide. More significantly, Megan McCardle had an analysis piece in the Washington Post making the case that such measures quickly become the status quo….that they are priced in both by industry and the revenue-hungry treasury."
I don't have subscriptions to either, so if anyone does and can confirm this, that would be great. I fully understand why brands would do this, but I wish the people who asked for this would be the only ones paying for it...
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pdxleaf
·I don't have subscriptions to either, so if anyone does and can confirm this, that would be great.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/business/economy/swizterland-tariffs-trump.html
https://wapo.st/4m4odTz
https://wapo.st/4miSRIU
What I could find.
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vbomega
·Now, if retail price for new swiss watches increases, I assume prices for second hand ones will too... As demand for it might rise.
Maybe something positive can be taken out of this situation. A potential buyer should rather invest the new price difference in a flight ticket, come to visit Switzerland or the rest of Europe, buy the watch here 😀
For the same new pricing, the buyers get the watch and a nice vacation.
On top of it, they spend money in Europe rather than the US 😀
It's a winning proposition!
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Dan S
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If the dollar is doing well, it shows the strength/stbility of the US economy. If it's dropping, they claim it as a win for US manufacturing and the trade deficit.
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vbomega
·Normally, weaker currency makes it more advantageous for exporting (or, rather, for countries with stronger currencies to buy from the countries with weaker currencies). Less advantageous for travel though if your currency is weak relatively to the countries where you want to travel.
What Trump wants nobody knows; maybe even himself. It goes day by day.
What Trump wants nobody knows; maybe even himself. It goes day by day.
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Porteroso
·My one experience with a testy immigration officer, I had just spent a summer abroad, in college, and I told the guy I didn't have anything to declare. He said "oh really, you spent 9 weeks in Italy, went to all these places in your passport, and didn't bring anything back." I was like "nope." But of course i had a few things, including 3 bottles of wine.
He just stared at me, and now I'm getting flustered, like "oh god he has a scan of my bag right in front of him. I'm so screwed." So I admit, "well, now that I think about it, a bottle of wine." He says "yeah, and that's all?" So I said "maybe some half eaten chocolate."
He shook his head and calculated the duty on a 23 Euro bottle of wine, then asked me to pay right there. Of course all I have is Euros, and he is not very happy about that. Honestly I forget what even happened, but after 5 minutes at his booth I think he told me to go away.
Today, I go through global entry, and they glance at me as I walk by, saying "welcome back Mr. Porter." I dont think they have scans of jack.
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gatorcpa
··ΩF InvestiGatorHe shook his head and calculated the duty on a 23 Euro bottle of wine, then asked me to pay right there. Of course all I have is Euros, and he is not very happy about that.
Besides, the $800 exemption that applied to most tourists returning home to the U.S. has been repealed in the OBBBA.
Herr Trump has declared that all these countries have been sending Fentanyl in small packages, so now everyone must pay.
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vbomega
·Doubtful. And im not counting on it. Just stating facts, so far, rarely enforced going back decades.
My one experience with a testy immigration officer, I had just spent a summer abroad, in college, and I told the guy I didn't have anything to declare. He said "oh really, you spent 9 weeks in Italy, went to all these places in your passport, and didn't bring anything back." I was like "nope." But of course i had a few things, including 3 bottles of wine.
He just stared at me, and now I'm getting flustered, like "oh god he has a scan of my bag right in front of him. I'm so screwed." So I admit, "well, now that I think about it, a bottle of wine." He says "yeah, and that's all?" So I said "maybe some half eaten chocolate."
He shook his head and calculated the duty on a 23 Euro bottle of wine, then asked me to pay right there. Of course all I have is Euros, and he is not very happy about that. Honestly I forget what even happened, but after 5 minutes at his booth I think he told me to go away.
Today, I go through global entry, and they glance at me as I walk by, saying "welcome back Mr. Porter." I dont think they have scans of jack.
This amount will be changing going forward, but your college experience was in the past.
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Porteroso
·It’s one thing to fail to declare a few bottles on wine and quite another to “forget” a $23,000 Swiss watch.
Besides, the $800 exemption that applied to most tourists returning home to the U.S. has been repealed in the OBBBA.
Herr Trump has declared that all these countries have been sending Fentanyl in small packages, so now everyone must pay.
gatorcpa
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Porteroso
·That's a lovely story but you could bring as many bottles as you wanted in your checked luggage. 1 liter limitation only applies to alcoholic beverages over 24% alc, which is clearly not wine. And unless you pack your bag with fine Bordeaux or Burgundy, you wouldn't even have to pay a duty under $800 combined with other purchases.
This amount will be changing going forward, but your college experience was in the past.
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Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskKern was quoted in the NYT today saying Breitling would have to raise prices worldwide to offset the impact of the 39% American tariffs,
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Fish70
·There are 3 kinds of lies...........1st you have ordinary lies, then you have outrageous lies, and finally you have statistics!
How do you know a politician is lying?.........Their mouth is moving!
How do you know a politician is on the level?.......The bullshit dibbles out of both sides of their mouth!
in the highly unlikely event that you should ever encounter a good, honest, selfless, honorable and hardworking politician.......
you should probably shoot the bastard before they turn bad!
To fully understand a word, it helps to break it down into it's component parts.
Take the word politics for example.........poly is many and ticks are blood sucking parasites!
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