{"id":1216772,"date":"2025-02-18T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216772"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:14:16","slug":"acer-ceo-says-its-pc-prices-to-increase-by-10-percent-in-response-to-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216772","title":{"rendered":"Acer CEO says its PC prices to increase by 10 percent in response to Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PC-manufacturer Acer has said that it plans to raise the prices of its PCs in the US by 10 percent, a direct response to the new 10 percent import tariff on Chinese goods that the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/tariffs-on-biggest-us-trading-partners-likely-to-spike-cost-of-cars-tech\/\">announced earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have to adjust the end user price to reflect the tariff,&#8221; said Acer CEO Jason Chen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/02\/16\/computer-giant-to-raise-prices-by-10pc-in-response-to-trump\/\">an interview with The Telegraph<\/a>. &#8220;We think 10 percent probably will be the default price increase because of the import tax. It\u2019s very straightforward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These price increases won&#8217;t roll out right away, according to Chen\u2014products shipped from China before the tariffs went into effect earlier this month won&#8217;t be subject to the increased import taxes\u2014but we can expect them to show up in PC price tags over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/acer-ceo-says-its-pc-prices-to-increase-by-10-percent-in-response-to-trump-tariffs\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/acer-ceo-says-its-pc-prices-to-increase-by-10-percent-in-response-to-trump-tariffs\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC-manufacturer Acer has said that it plans to raise the prices of its PCs in the US by 10 percent, a direct response to the new 10 percent import tariff on Chinese goods that the Trump administration announced earlier this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}