>A tariff is essentially a form of tax that is used to make goods and services that are imported in the country more expensive to consumers than the same items made domestically.
>Those possible tariffs could have an impact on the cost of game consoles and other hardware, much of which is manufactured overseas.
>On Monday, Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He also met with business and union leaders.
>If an across-the-board trade tariff were imposed it would likely impact games and gaming consoles that are imported into the United States, like Nintendo's upcoming Switch console.
fuck
David Anderson
>That'll be $60 +tax +tariff +tip please
Ayden Clark
TPP had to go
Unless you live in Canada or Mexico this won't affect anyone
we just have to wait to see how Japan responds
Brayden Green
Lotta ifs in these stupid articles
Liam Roberts
Just download them.
Oliver Fisher
weebs btfo God bless Trump!
Dylan Adams
>withdraw from the TPP isn't that a good thing, though?
Benjamin Baker
>Paying for video games
Bentley Brooks
That's just an alternative fact user
Gavin Russell
butthurt democrats will shitpost about anything
Thomas Fisher
People pay for games? You know you can down load every game you want for free on your pic.
Joshua Diaz
lolno
Jordan Carter
>buying consoles Cuck.
Ryan Gutierrez
Get ready for your games to cost 100$
Camden Harris
>"Progressives" during the election >Bernie totally against free trade and TPP, Hilldog has to flip flop on it like every other issue to get his base >Trump wins >REEE WHY WON'T TRUMP LET ME GET FUCKED IN THE ASS BY INTERNATIONAL MEGACORPS
Connor Ramirez
>constant paid shilling that attempts to involve Trump's administration and show "how bad" they are
remember how literally everyone on the internet was against the TPP?
remember how bernie was against the TPP and everyone cheered him on?
remember how hillary flip-flopped and ended up saying TPP was bad after calling it the "gold standard"?
trump was always against TPP cuz it sucks. and now it's gone. forever.
DO NOT REPLY TO SHILL THREADS SAGE
Xavier Wilson
>>Unless you live in Canada i live in canada what the fuck, our games are already $80 for fucks sake, are they going up AGAIN?
David Bell
>haven't bought a physical game in years You can't tariff data from another state.
Samuel Ward
This applies to PC games as well. Enjoy your additional fees on top of the new taxes thanks to net neutrality being abolished.
Julian Long
I wonder how Sup Forums will react when Net Neutrality goes down and they have to convince their mom's to pay an extra 29.99 to shitpost and have to pay more for their video games.
Robert Scott
isn't this good for american developers though?
Nolan Moore
It is a good thing that we're leaving.
All trade deals do is make it easier to export labor to developing nations so that pur corporate overlords can enjoy a higher profit margin.
Owen Ward
I thought they went up to make sure they cost the same in the US after exchange rates?
Jose Fisher
That's what you leafs deserve
Kayden Hernandez
Okay and?
Adam Wilson
What kind of retailer asks for a fucking tip? Better yet, why are you giving a clerk a tip or not buying digital?
Logan Sullivan
If you're a redditor, yes. If you're someone who doesn't give a fuck about armchair politics and does something productive, no.
James Brown
>hes still posting this >hes this buttblasted kill yourself op
Jackson Gomez
>This applies to PC games as well Does not apply to digital sales. Only physical. Also even if it did I don't give a shit, I live in Europe.
Caleb Morgan
>Suddenly all the trumpfags are in denial
Really makes you think
Luis Sanders
>American Devs literally need a tariff to get people to buy their games.
Easton Mitchell
WTF? I hate Trump now. Thanks for helping Correct the Record.
Jason Watson
Net neutrality has been dead for years
Of course
Jonathan Baker
>Does not apply to digital sales. Yes it does.
Jack Morgan
We got out of the TPP at least. That would have destroyed the games industry
Noah Lopez
I instantly moved to America the moment Trump won. I'm not even joking. Pennsylvania isn't too shitty.
Owen Gray
Get fucked, nintendo cunts.
Nolan Taylor
Feels good to be Canadian, I only have to pay $70 per game. This is what you get for laughing at us.
Matthew Turner
Not if everyone else puts up tariffs against US goods.
Angel Campbell
*buys a game digitally on pc*
Nathan Phillips
>all of these retarded attempts to derail the conversation into TPP and not the potential tariff
Brayden Carter
Digital markets won't have the tariff and companies have localization teams to sell in the countries. It will only effect those that import.
Angel Reyes
Proof?
Carson Miller
Bernie should've won the nomination.
Ian Myers
They do, Canadians pay what we pay for games. Their excuse is that their money is worth less but they don't get higher wages. It's horse shit, just because your monopoly money is garbage doesn't mean you're getting scammed.
Matthew Diaz
Actually, you can? There is nothing stopping the gov from taxing things made, but not shipped, overseas to you.
Lincoln Richardson
It had both good and bad stuff in it. It was mainly to be used as a way to stop china influence in most asian countries.
There is also a reason why china is pushing clean energy development. They will be number one in the future
Levi Perry
they won't though, so it's ok.
Landon Allen
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS OP IS AT IT AGAIN
Anthony Hill
>I repeat stuff I read on the internet
Jace Cruz
>isn't this good for american developers though?
Which ones? The nu-male/feminist infested devs or the lazy Bethesda tier devs?
Grayson Lopez
The only state I'd move to would be Vermont
Nicholas Rodriguez
>tfw Trump forces Nintendo to go third party I didn't expect it to end like this.
Adam Cook
>doesn't apply to digital They made Steam charge you sales tax, you'd better believe they can enforce tariffs on foreign-made digital games.
Brayden Collins
They might if Canada continues to plunge
I mentioned Canada because your PM destroyed your economic value by selling every gold bar to some third party buyers and bankers
Thomas Richardson
>I shitpost in Sup Forums politics threads about sucking the cocks of international mega corporations
Matthew King
Why yes, i do believe the bills I have read. Those were on the internet, yes.
Logan King
Explain, I thought it was physical commodities only.
Josiah Rivera
>THEY VOTED FOR DRUMPF
TOP KEK
Jose Morris
>the media now thinks TPP is a good thing now that Trump has pulled out of it >articles speculating
Nolan Wright
Steam charges sales tax? I never remember my purchases being anything but the labelled amount
Zachary Murphy
That was another choice and I might move there eventually I just had relatives here to sort of help with the moving process from Galway
Colton Clark
These articles exist to convince people, with a headline and often a bunch of hypotheticals, that their overt contempt for Donald Trump isn't unjustified. Doesn't matter if they understand the issue or not, or if there even is one.
Carter Powell
Americans should pay more for video games tbqh, stop being so poor faggots
Cameron Evans
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, is a cuckold.
Xavier Gomez
Give a link to Breath of the wild.
Jeremiah Bell
The same reason why you give the guy that refills your water a tip
Nathan Morris
There were people calling him an anti semite recently too, even though some of his top picks are from Goldman-Sachs and he supports Israel.
It's just popular to say he's whatever bad thing comes to mind.
Samuel Hughes
how so?
Kayden Morales
OP, I hope you realize Sup Forums will never be deleted no matter how many times you spam Sup Forums with politics and make it pass as Sup Forums "leaking"
Nathaniel Ward
bullshit
Cameron Sullivan
Only a dick wouldn't tip
Caleb Foster
One of those doesn't produce anything, so I guess the Bethesda devs? it only happens if you live in a state that adds sales tax to digital, or Washington. Washington doesn't but since Valve is in WA they have to by law. VA for example does not care, so I just use my card tat says I live in VA, even though I live in WA.
Jacob Brown
Vat, you idiot.
Jackson Morgan
>tfw $50 pizza plus tarriff plus tip no tax tho because it's a vegetable
Kayden Price
That's incorrect. The TPP specifically included a paragraph that prevented custom duties from being levied on "electronic transmissions."
John Gonzalez
The tariff is for all imported goods, not exclusively for physical products. Digital goods currently incur a sales tax applicable to the region they're sold in, you can bet that the new tariffs will be slapped on top of that too.
Plus the net neutrality fees as well. Looks like Steam is finally getting that subscription service in 2017, except the money goes into Trump's back pocket.
Landon Cooper
A tariff has always been good for our country. Plus it will discourage retarded 12 year olds from picking up Battle of Duty 77: Black Dykes in Space
Brayden Nguyen
oh wow, I didn't know the details my bad
Matthew Fisher
You don't pay taxes on video games on steam You do for movies and hardware
Elijah Diaz
Trade war!
I wonder how the EU/Japan/China is going to retaliate. Shit is going down.
Austin Carter
Short stsory: TPP included arcane Copyright, patent and trademark extensions that would have included the abilty to trademark and copyright a way of having something play.
Landon Perry
Thank you to everyone who voted for Trump.
Jayden Baker
Good. Shitting on weebs is fun.
Connor Hernandez
CNN would never lie only Faux News lies rite guys lol
John Williams
>You don't pay taxes on video games on steam Not him, he was wrong. You do pay taxes on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS digital purchases though.
Ayden Bell
you have to be 18 to post here
Jace Wright
TPP would've allowed extranational corporate courts to decide whether or not US Laws and Decisions were legal, essentially allowing Corporations to sue the United States on any law or decision that effects their bottom line, without ever touching the US legal system, ISDS.
Left or Right, you should be glad the TPP is dead.
Xavier Hill
Does that mean i can copyright wireless buttplugs before ubisoft does?
Dominic Collins
Enjoy not being able to buy anything but tranny walking simulators from now on.
Cooper Garcia
Japan will respond by not doing anything, china will respond by trading more with other gooks, the EU will respond by collapsing
Mason Gutierrez
Why? Aren't most good games (Bethesda, Valve, 343i, ect.) made is the USA anyways?
Charles Lopez
user, I...
Kayden Thomas
nice fake news
Henry Campbell
Not even a hardcore Trump Supporter but this so hard.
Joshua Clark
>six extra dollars for a sixty dollar game boo hoo
Cameron Powell
It just fucking sucks but apparently it's for the "service". All the employees at GameStop just fucking glare at me when I walk in cause I'm in there pretty often and I rarely ever tip. Best thing to do is ignore it, they can't force you to and it's not like they can just spit on your game or whatever
Gavin Morales
Yeah but their games are shit
Jayden Ortiz
>already $80
That's because our dollar is shit. They don't actually cost more here than they do in the States, 60 USD is like 78.50 CAD
Eli Myers
That's actually pretty cool. I'd suggest the Northeast though if you're afraid of getting homesick.