25% China Tariffs Finalized For 2019, 10% Start Now, Includes Select Video Surveillance

For EU, a recording device has an import charge of about 16% and a camera of 4.9%.

Adding a tariff to something that competes with what you can make yourself is not strange, but doing it in a fight like this doesn't help anyone.

If everyone was so loyal to local products the tariff wouldn't even be needed, so it's going to hurt everyone's wallet except for the company that was just not good enough to compete, and now is.

Do you think it was a Hik cam that recorded whatever happened with those Russian women and the Donald?  Let's hope his iPhone is never compromised or we are all going back to Blackberry.

In all seriousness, my prayers are with all the victims of this trade war.  From the US integrators who make their living installing in K-12, to the distributor sales reps, to the poor factory workers who are hardly paid enough to begin with, I pray for them all.  A stroke of a pen carries a lot of weight in this world.

The U.S. Is a big market, but there are plenty of green fields out there for Chinese products. The USA is ~12-13% of the global surveillance market, China is ~40%, few CN manufacturers rely solely on the USA as an export market, for most of them these tariffs will be a small pot hole in the road.

It will take China some time to adjust, but they will just move elsewhere, the U.S. Based channel players are the ones that will suffer more, these tariffs will not harm China as much as they will harm American distributors and integrators.

I agree with Sean, better to offer subsidies than impose tariffs.

In Europe we have always had duty on recorders and cameras that impact the sell out price in local markets. Not quite 25% but we used to have 13.9% on recorders up to recently. 

The interesting thing that has happened this year is that the duty % for importing into Europe has dropped considerably for recorders and cameras and most likely the majority of electronics.

A lot of importers into Europe when the duty % was high on recorders would get Dahua/Hikvision to ship main board and case as separate product so to avoid the 13.9% duty as the product wasn't complete when being imported and thus then only pay 4% (this same taric is now only 1%)

So maybe USA importers can get around the high duty by shipping in-complete product and then assembling the products in the USA!

But what may affect the above is that the big 3 in China are beginning to put a price premium if you want to ship MB and Case as separate products as they claim it is more work for them. Yes it is more complex for  them but the price increases they are quoting currently is not a true reflection!

25% Tariff only apply to DVRs, NVRs or only on cameras?

what about tax rebates instead of tariffs?
if you manufacture in the US you can get 25% tax rebate, instead of taxing you 25% if you bring from abroad

Hikvision USA sent out an email to dealers this week about the tariffs, downplaying impact, nothing that they have significantly increased inventory in the US to avoid the tariffs impact for the time being:

Other elements worth noting:

• This is the first email from Eric Chen, Jeffrey He's replacement
• Hikvision has not sent any bulletin about the ban since the ban was passed.
• The options Hikvision is evaluating, according to sources, is shifting some manufacturing outside of China, though what, if any, country they choose remains to be seen. They have recently started manufacturing in India, though that from public reports is just for the Indian market for now.

Access control products also fall into the tariff categories and will affect them as well.  Anything that functions as a time clock (like a card/fingerprint time and attendance terminal) or data storage device like the memory chips in access control panels may also be affected.

Does anyone else see this?