As you may know, recent tariff changes now include Taiwan. Since most of our products are manufactured in Taiwan, we are currently assessing how this will impact us. We’re monitoring closely and will have more updates in the next few days. Thanks for your patience as we navigate this.
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I have a pre-order slot for a Framework 13 with the Ryzen 7 AI 350.
I have been considering cancelling that to get the discounted Framework 13 with a 7840u.
Are you able to share if prices for already-stocked hardware like the 7840u are likely to change?
That’s a good question.
I read that, concerning cars at least, anything already in the country / in a dealer’s lot, won’t get hit. Which is what you’d expect, since it’s already made it through import.
I forgot that Framework ships Laptops direct from Taiwan. See:
I guess this only affects US customers
Correct, tariffs are not applied after the fact for goods already imported. Though, there is nothing stopping companies from changing their prices for goods across the board.
The claim will be tariffs are causing the price increase just like many companies artificially raised prices for “supply chain” shortages during the pandemic yet never lowered them or only lowered them a token amount.
Was their an actual increase in the cost of goods and services? Yes. Was it as high as the price for goods and services went? In many cases no, or they were temporary.
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What is the base currency of framework ? Dolar? I am asking just to calculate the final price, it seems I paid deposit in my CZK currency based on my credit card.
Do you have some currency exchange deals, right?
My opinion:
I guess in couple of weeks there would be great currency fluctuations too.
I think now framework should have prices per country due to tariffs, but I see it as headache for the framework team…
Framework ships all in-stock laptops directly from Taiwan, so this likely would not apply.
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Exactly, it’s just an excuse of price gouging
Exactly this. Companies more often than not use excuses like this to raise prices permanently across the board, until natural competition forces them back down again.
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If we’ve already ordered, we should be locked in at current price right?
I pre-ordered a ryzen 7 350 on launch day, batch 1. Cant afford to pay 30% more on it though so hoping pre-orders arent affected.
What a worldwide mess these tariffs are causing and going to cause.
Framework doesn’t take full payment until a pre-order actually ships, so we can’t assume the price can stay the same. After all, I doubt Framework would be able to absorb paying the 30% themselves on every pre-order, if the regulations say that it’s when full payment is taken which matters.
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I wonder how this is going to affect FW.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of FW sales are to the USA, and what percentage are to the rest of the world.
I think semiconductors are excluded from the tariffs on Taiwan, so it might not affect Laptop prices.
If I ordered a DIY 7040 Framework 16 prior to the announcement of the tariffs (I was unaware they were about to be announced). Will this machine ship from warehouses in the US where I reside, or will it come straight from Taiwan? I assume if it comes from Taiwan, I’ll be impacted by the 32% tariff.
Tariffs are typically due upon arrival at the point of entry (i.e. within the country) not the time of order. It’s going to be entirely dependent on when the laptops arrive in the US. We’ll have to wait from framework for clarity on the impact.
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Am I misunderstanding, or do you really think framework is price gouging? If it literally costs them 30% more to import the laptop into the US, then that’s what they have to charge. They can’t keep the original price fixed and absorb it into their margins, they don’t have those sorts of margins.
It’s a shitty situation, but the blame should not be on framework. The blame is squarely placed on this idiotic trade war.
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That is fine, the price gouging bit is when companies start charging 30% more for stuff from not the us going to not the us or when they don’t reduce the price back down if the tariffs (or insert whatever other temporary crisis to blame it on) get lifted.
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These tarrifs affects US customers only. The rest of the world is not affected.
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I was replying to the previous thread saying other companies raise prices but not lower them back down when the “crisis is over” and it’s a form of price gouging, I’m not blaming Framework.
Got it and thanks for clarifying, I misunderstood
It is very likely that Framework will stop the selling to the US market for the next couple of weeks, like Nintendo does for the Switch 2. The problem is the uncertainty if tariffs will stay, lower or rise.