PC-manufacturer Acer has mentioned that it plans to boost the costs of its PCs within the US by 10 %, a direct response to the brand new 10 % import tariff on Chinese language items that the Trump administration announced earlier this month.

“We must alter the top consumer value to mirror the tariff,” mentioned Acer CEO Jason Chen in an interview with The Telegraph. “We predict 10 % most likely would be the default value improve due to the import tax. It’s very easy.”

These value will increase will not roll out straight away, based on Chen—merchandise shipped from China earlier than the tariffs went into impact earlier this month will not be topic to the elevated import taxes—however we will anticipate them to point out up in PC value tags over the subsequent few weeks.

Chen additionally mentioned that Acer was contemplating shifting extra of its manufacturing outdoors of China on account of the tariffs, one thing that Acer had completed for a few of its desktop PCs after Trump imposed related tariffs on Chinese language imports throughout his first time period. Manufacturing programs within the US can be “one of many choices,” based on Chen.