US Tariffs - Repercussions for Swiss residents

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A few other countries have had to do the same.

I’m guessing this will be TACO’d at some point until they get their act together and come up with a working system.

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<Scrambling to try to get my niece’s wedding present to the Post in the next 90 minutes…>

On second thought, maybe I’ll just send them a ticket to visit Switzerland instead.

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A friend just stopped by to pick something up to put in a package to send to her sister today.
Luckily I had just finished it.

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Other countries;

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Now the Americans can’t even get presents from friends and familiy abroad anymore.
They gotta love Trump.

Yah, poor babies. They will have to get all their cheap Chinese stuff at Wally-mart.

what cheap Chinese stuff. In the US? :rofl:

US Tariffs are going to be a big problem for many Swiss manufacturers, some for who have the as a large part of their market

Thermoplan, which exports automated coffee machines to 84 countries, sends around a third of its products manufactured exclusively in Switzerland to the US. “The 39% tariffs will affect us directly and significantly,” the company’s head of marketing, Yves Zurmühle, told the AWP news agency.

The company, which is based in Weggis, canton Lucerne, and employs 540 staff, says it will not be able to pass on all the surcharges to its customers. Clients in the United States are concerned about prices, delivery times and planning, while they are already facing 50% US tariffs on Brazilian coffee.

Victorinox anticipates a hefty bill

The Schwyz-based manufacturer of the famous Victorinox Swiss pocket knife anticipated the customs shock by building up stocks in the US, its main export market. The additional costs are therefore “controllable” this year, but if they were to be maintained, “we are talking about additional costs of up to $13 million a year from 2026 onwards”, managing director Carl Elsener told AWP by e-mail.

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Although, if this is long term, some Swiss companies will move all or part of their production abroad, with inevitable job losses here, others like Victorinox feel they can’t because of their Swiss identity.

25 countries have now stopped postal deliveries to the US.

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