To let you skip the article, they are pausing sales to the USA on the base models of the framework 13, presumably because those are their lowest margin models. The two affected SKUs for the moment are the Intel 125H and Ryzen 7640U
They could just become a European company. I’m just saying.
Or Canadian. Since they have quite a passionate investor there already
Oh, of course, my intent was more “quit the US”.
They’re built in Taiwan though right so realistically them being a US company is more to do with where their officers are based. So they really could just move.
It would screw over the people who work there of course.
The company are designers and engineers, not factory workers, they don’t have staff in Taiwan, they put their orders there. Unless they move all the people, thry can’t really move that easily.
And pay tariffs for chips etc still coming from Taiwan? (There are not enough chip fabs in US so that US still will be dependent on Taiwan just paying US government some premium. And the few chips coming from US will just match prices of imported chips)
That’s sad , I am seriously considering getting one to support their business model.
Pretty much every other laptop manufacturer is going to be hit by the same tariffs
If it makes you feel better, no one will go unscathed.
Not in Europe AFAIK.
It only affects one country, so not that big of a news story.
This is pausing US sales only. Misleading title, only affects one country.
Yeah it was a bit worried about that for a moment and I’ve already given them £100.
I got a Framework 13 a couple months ago - it’s been awesome so far. I’m happy to support their business model & repairability - it’s super awesome.
Sucks for you guys south of the 49th parallel who have to deal with (pay) all these ludicrous tariffs!
Just bought my FW13 last month. USA. It’s either perfect timing, because tariffs. Or terrible timing, because tariffs. I haven’t decided yet.
Love the laptop though!
Waiting on my 13 (ryzen ai 7 350). Hope they don’t claw back for a price hike…
I would expect a small company like them to be the most vulnerable to tariffs. This might cause them to go out of business.
There are still countries other than the US.
If the Americans could read, they’d be very upset to read this.
I know this is a joke, but to be fair, a good chunk of Americans are highly educated. It’s just that the morons are more motivated to vote (and yes, I see the irony of not voting as a moronic thing to do.)
:-)
Hey Framework, how about sending some laptops down under? I still am not able to buy any from the website here in NZ
The time of the great smuggling has arrived 🤭 with that much money that can be saved, I bet we see a big spike in smuggled goods. I mean, if the price is higher than the risk of smuggling, it is a no-brainer.
Canary in the coal mine turns into Standard Operating Procedure.
During their keynote they said they were largely unaffected 😣
That was more than a day ago though. Trump’s lack of prudence ensures that companies can’t plan ahead. That includes the Taiwan based framework.
They were largely unaffected by the tariffs targeting China, because US trade policy distinguishes between mainland China and Taiwan. Problem was that Trump announced huge tariffs on everyone, including a 32% tariff on Taiwan.
Yah. Like I said. Lack of prudence with plenty of unpredictability on top.
Oh gosh, too fast for me to keep up with these tariffs
Why not add the tariff to the price? If someone in the US still wants it, they can buy it and pay the tariff.
I assume they will. The problem right now is how volatile and abrupt these policies are. If they make an adjustment now, sell a laptop at that price, and then tomorrow additional tariffs are implemented they may well end up with a loss on that sale to you. The pause is likely just to see where things will stabilize to.
They presumably assume they’d be selling so little that it wouldn’t be worth the trouble.
They’ll probably wait out this situation for a while and see what the competition does…
