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News - Game consoles excluded from tariffs on Chinese imports ‘until further notice’ - xSicKxBot - 01-29-2020
Game consoles excluded from tariffs on Chinese imports ‘until further notice’
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/game-consoles-excluded-from-tariffs-on-chinese-imports-until-further-notice.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Video game consoles won’t be directly impacted by tariffs imposed on imports from China for the time being, a more concrete decision that comes after consoles were granted temporary exemption in the later months of 2019.</p>
<p>The Electronic Software Association <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/27/21083595/china-tariffs-next-gen-console-price-board-games">confirmed as much to Polygon</a> over email, noting that the United States Trade Representative “has suspended the tariffs on consoles until further notice.”</p>
<p>The ESA statement backs up news shared by the USTR (via <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-details-factbox/whats-in-the-us-china-phase-1-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZE2IF">Reuters</a>) about the first phase of a trade deal between the U.S. and China amid ongoing trade negotiations. In that release, it was mentioned that categories of goods that had tariffs <a href="https://gamasutra.com/view/news/348631/US_tariffs_on_video_game_consoles_imported_from_China_delayed_to_December.php">delayed from September to mid-December</a>, including game consoles, laptop computers, and cellphones, would instead have those tariffs suspended indefinitely.</p>
<p>Console makers Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have openly spoken against those potential tariffs for months before the delay and no indefinate suspension, warning in an <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/345600/Microsoft_Nintendo_and_Sony_pen_letter_against_Trumps_game_console_tariff.php">earlier open letter</a> that the damage would have an “enormous impact and undue economic harm[…]on the entire video game ecosystem,” including both consumers and the thousands that count themselves among the game industry. </p>
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