Jlcpcb and tariffs

[LukeFRC]

At that stage, I'm pretty sure I could start up a side business ordering from JLCPCB from Europe and sell to you guys and even with shipping etc on top I would still make a profit and have you save some money.

Problem is if you're just selling on the value and place of origin of the product is still china and then theoretically subject to Chinese tariffs. (there is similar issue with EV built in UK using Chinese batteries as more than 50% of the value is Chinese products.

What you could do is build PCB into full pedals and sell into the US - because then the value added is in the build and your time, not the parts ...

 

[Big Monk]

Going through the biggest inconvenience of moving away from JLC: part selection. JLC makes things easier for us by limiting what we're allowed to put on the board, they only allow things in their library which streamlines quoting, ordering and assembly. But if you try to get a quote from a US board house, they'll typically want manufacturer part numbers, not just values and footprints, especially some of the more specialized stuff out there.

JLC makes it easy to get in, they give you loads of options and help you set up your infrastructure around their system, and it makes it really inconvenient to leave.

Don’t leave!

I kid of course. Luckily for me I’m going 6-8 weeks between every batch so my hope is that the worst of this will blow over between this batch I’m now shipping out and delivery of the next.

I’ll stay the course because as you pointed out, JLCPCB is part of my process now.

 

[Harry Klippton]

 

[vigilante398]

Don’t leave!

I kid of course. Luckily for me I’m going 6-8 weeks between every batch so my hope is that the worst of this will blow over between this batch I’m now shipping out and delivery of the next.

I’ll stay the course because as you pointed out, JLCPCB is part of my process now.

I have enough PCBs in stock that I can sit and wait for a little bit without issue, I'm just worried that if I wait too long and things haven't changed by the time I need to restock that I'll be left with a gap in production, and I would like to avoid that. I would love to get a new supplier all lined up and find out next month that everything is going back to normal and I can keep using JLC, but I am not a gambling man.