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Andy Edser

'It’s very straightforward': Acer plans to raise the price of its PCs in the US by 10% in reaction to Trump's tech tariffs

Acer Predator Helios 16 pictured with Horizon: Zero Dawn playing.

President Trump may have only come into office mere months ago, but it already has a buzzword—and that word is tariff. While it's unclear if all of Trump's threats to heavily tax imports from various countries into the US will materialise, his administration has already announced a trade policy that includes a 10% tariff on goods imported from China.

Given China's role in technology manufacturing, that's probably bad news for US buyers. Speaking to The Telegraph, Acer CEO Jason Chen has given a simple reaction: "We will have to adjust the end user price to reflect the tariff," he said. "We think 10 percent probably will be the default price increase because of the import tax. It’s very straightforward."

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