Acers most expensive laptop, a$3,000 gaming beast, will soon cost $3,300.
Itshigh end monitorswill go from $999 to $1,099.
The price of every tablet, graphics card, and Chromebook it makes will go up.
Acer Swift 16 Ai Verdict© Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
Acer CEO Jason Chen was clear about the source of the price hike in aninterview with The Telegraph.
We will have to adjust the end user price to reflect the tariff, he said.
We think 10% probably will be the default price increase because of the import tax.
Even building stuff in the U.S. is on the table.
But setting up new logistics and supply lines takes a lot of time.
While companies move to avoid Trumps costly trade tariffs, the consumer will eat the cost.
Trumps tariffs were alwaysgoing to hit gamers hard.
Gamers have only just begun to feel the burden.
Last week Trump signed a Reciprocal Tariff which is set toupend the global trading ordereven more than previously thought.
He imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada only to put them on hold days later.
Its hard to know which tariffs are real and which tariffs are negotiating tactics.
We wont know whats real and whats fake until it hits our pocketbook.
With Acer announcing a price increase, its officially hit our pocketbook.
Last week, a journalist asked Trump if prices would go up following his signature of the reciprocal tariff.
I mean, not necessarily,Trump said.
But Ill tell you what will go up is jobs.
The jobs will go up tremendously.
Were going to have great jobs, jobs for everybody.
This is something that should have been done many years ago.
Prices on Acer goods have gone up since then.
And the U.S. has lost tens of thousands of jobs, most of them cut from the federal government.
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