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geopolitics (jē″ō-pŏl′ĭ-tĭks) noun
The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation.
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Why would Acer increase their prices because of tariffs?
Wouldn't just the importer face higher import tax?
So, the store in the USA would face higher prices, while Acer hardware in Europe would cost the current ones.
Or is this strictly about US prices?
Then the wording is a bit weird - or does this have to do with the Acer business model to sell their stuff in online stores in different countries, but need to import hardware from China?
Still, I wouldn't call it an increase of price. There is just now a higher tax on them, which results in higher price for the end consumer, but Acer still doesn't need to increase their prices per se.
Or what am I not getting here? :-\
The gist of it seems to be that they have enough factories around the world that they can just switch to another one to get around the tariffs.
Yeah, weil, that doesn't seem like a real response, but more like, they were already decentralised and now have an advantage.
But I didn't see anything more than that as well