#ht coded

[leafwateraddict]

Noooo 😭

[xiranjayzhao]

When the themes in your book accidentally match up to real world events months after the text was finalized

A very December 2024 parody, by @zakurarain

Pose ref under cut

[batsplat]

more casey + vale text posts (2/?)

[radioactive-yuri]

Oh no I slipped *gives Gwen she/it pronouns that she refuses to enforce because as much as she likes them she thinks nobody will respect her if she uses untraditional pronouns*

tbh the only clear tmagp gender headcanons i have are soft butch tgirl egg sam khalid and several layers of xenogender lena kelley but she has no time to think about All That.

[captainseamech]

".... she what?" Jesus Christ High Tide—

[artemusts]

How To Find HTS Code? Harmonized Tariff Schedule

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[unpeacefully]

( @wildmuses )

THE EVENTS OF THE SHIP SEEMED LIKE A FAR OFF FUZZY NIGHTMARE with sound bites and glimpses of faces that all blurred together , to be standing in erin and tommy's living room sometime later was seen as a blessing . abigail had her jacket in her arms when she heard the front door open and it was no real surprise -- but with everything that had happened was a welcomed thing -- to see tommy , " before you ask er let me in . i'm just here for spreading belated christmas cheer and also here to try and convince both of you to go to a small not-a-new-years-eve-party party . " since everything seemed to fall apart in town when the word party was included in ANYTHING .

dog on her heels from outside erin caught the last bit of what abby had said , " she tried to fly the idea of having it here but i told her no , because of space . " there was only a handful she in truth trusted with their address and she felt it was a push even with the ones that knew it already , but she wasn't going to outright tell abby that she didn't trust some of the roses and she knew tommy would clock it right away her concerns . retrieving the mug from the coffee table she took a small sip from it , " and i told her i'd only go if you went . "

abby turned her attention first to erin then back to tommy . " so you have to say yes . venue still being iffy , but i have a way of making things happen . " she said with a smile and nod of her head .

[s-s-spinning-coins-s-s]

GROUP PHOTO!

Drew every Caine I could think of- apparently you can fit 50 Caines on one sheet of paper lol (and I’ll draw more next time!)

NAMES—————>

Abstracted Identity (AI, YAI, AAI) @galactic-knightmare

Artificially Organic (AO) @jaxangel

Amazing Ice Skating (IS) @deduukkk

Avatar Code Error (ACE, ACE!Z) @ladymiraclewings

Cannon Caine (C) GLITCH

Critical Error (CE) @the-spam-specialist

Cat!Caine (CC) ANYONE!

Discord RP, Llama’s Caine (RP:S!C, V!S) @llamaflower

Discord RP, Kay’s Caine (DKC) @stupendousflowerdelusion

Dragon Caine (TADC) @ray-of-destiny

Diary: Property of Caine (DPOC) @funnyguy788

Discord RP, Gaygemzz’s Caine (HT) @?

Emotional Caine (EC) @sunnyknight-original

Freak Show (FS) @hootbon

Fight Club (FC) @burrotello

Fazbear and friends, EP: o5 (FAF) zamination

Flaw Swap (FS) ME!

Fan VN Game TADC (VN) @

Gravity Falls Caine (BC) ANYONE!

Gender Swap (GS) ANYONE!

How To Raise (HTR) @bubblebear4life

Human Caine (HC) ANYONE!

Little Nightmares (LN) @iamespecter

My AI My Circus (MAMC, YMAMC) ME!

Night Walks (NW) @funnyguy788

New Ringmaster (NR) @?

Opposite TADC (OC) @?

Power Loss (PL) @sunnyknight-original

Ringmasters Written Reminders (RWR, YRWR, A!RWR) @the-spam-specialist

Reasonable Crashout (RC) @17-noodlebird

Rot For Clout (RFC) AND (CF) @modgirlyreposts-revamped

Road Trip (RT) @17-noodlebird

Replacement Code, swap (RCS) @replacementcodeau

Road to Digital Hell (HT) @gaygemzz

Storybook (SB) @

Spudsy’s Caine (SpC) @?

Swap Caine (SC) @?

Therapy but it's just Zooble interrogating Caine (TBZ) @spark-hearts2

Tumblr, Pudding’s Caine (PC) @puddingandp1

The Amazing Digital Carnival (DC) @sm-baby

The Shadow’s Digital Performers (DP) @theshadowsdigitalperformersau

The Amazing Digital Office (DO) @pikavani

Traveling Circus (TC) @lumineary-arts

The Influence (TI) @spread-the-influence

Undertale Caine (UC) ANYONE!

Wonderland (WC) @endomentendo

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(Please comment and fill in the blanks/fix errors!)

[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

Masterpost 40

New characters and important posts

Characters pets

Asks

S/O disappears without a trace and lets skeleton to deal with their child (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

A bully took skeleton's child lunch at school and they didn't eat anything (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O has to use water wings at the pool because they can't swim (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton's neighbours are fighting over anything (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton's child is biting people at school and says it's because it's how it is at home (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton starts to remember resets out of nowhere (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

There's a cow in front of skeleton's house (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O is clowning around during a very important meeting, making skeleton laughs (UT Papyrus, US Sans, UF Papyrus, SF Sans, FSG Sans, MT Sans, MT Papyrus, MF Sans, MF Papyrus)

S/O cancels plans because of a bad allergy (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

A kid traps them somewhere (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

A shooter enters Grillby's/Muffet's (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

A stranger claims that skeleton's dog bit them (UT Papyrus, US Papyrus, HT Sans, HT Papyrus, HF Sans, HS Papyrus, HSF Sans, SF Papyrus, DF Sans, DF Papyrus, FT Sans, FT Papyrus, MT Papyrus, MF Sans, D!Papyrus)

What other languages do the skeletons speak? (All skeletons)

Skeleton walks behind S/O, startles them and gets slap in the face (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton accidentally breaks one of his S/O big Lego sets (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Horror skeletons meet their classic universe monarchs (HT, HS, HF, HSF Sans & Papyrus)

Who would say 'I love you' first in a relationship? (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton plays a bad prank and regrets it (SF Papyrus)

S/O doesn't really react to Skeleton's pranks (SF Papyrus)

Cuddliest skeletons' meeting (US Papyrus, HT Sans, FSG Papyrus)

Narcoleptic S/O falls asleep while hugging someone (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O is extremely affectionnate (HT, HS, HF, HSF Sans & Papyrus)

S/O comes out of the closet (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton's teen's head gets stuck in a chair (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O brings home a witchcraft book (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Short S/O is frustrated Papyrus is so tall (All Papyrus)

S/O refuses to wear a dress to a strict dress code event (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton visits the bone museum in New York City (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O is high after a hard day (UT Sans, UF Sans, UF Papyrus, HT Sans, HT Papyrus)

Someone has a panic attack in front of skeleton (US Sans, US Papyrus, UF Sans, UF Papyrus, HT Sans, SF Papyrus, OT Sans, DuT Sans)

S/O is a living porcelain doll (UT, US, UF, SF Sans & Papyrus)

S/O play fights when meeting a friend (UT Alphys, UT Asgore, UT Grillby, US Undyne)

S/O likes to play piano and sing but only when no one is watching (UT, US, UF Sans)

What nicknames do the skeletons call their S/O? (UT, US, UF Sans & Papyrus)

What the skeleton wanted to be as children (UT, US, UF, HT, HS, HF, HSF, SF, FSG, MT, MF Sans & Papyrus)

What makes the skeletons snap for real (HT, HS, HF, HSF Sans & Papyrus)

How did their arrival go in Sans and Papyrus world? (All skeletons)

Skeletons play tug-of-war (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Alphys/Undyne gets bitten by a venomous snake (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

What kind of meals can the skeleton make for their spouse/husband? (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O has a terrible sleep schedule (UT, US, UF Sans & Papyrus + UT Grillby)

S/O's ex is still friends with them because they're childhood friends (UT, US, UF Sans)

S/O has a friend who doesn't like monsters (UT Toriel, UT Asgore, UT Mettaton, UT Alphys, UF Undyne)

S/O knows how to do magic (UT Sans, US Sans, Ink, Error)

How to gain the skeletons trust (HS, HF, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Old-fashioned farmer S/O asks skeleton his brother's hand (HT, HS, HF, HSF Sans & Papyrus)

Other things

My favorite characters to write

What is my idea of Gaster

Myfanwi talks

Thor and Mj��llnir fighting over a flower

Is the North of France really chilly all year?

DELTARUNE

Treat time with Thor and Mjöllnir

My review of the Minecraft movie

JK Rowling is a transphobic and acephobe old bitch

Thor and Mjöllnir are 2 years old

I got badly sick in April lol

Thor being cute

About the "lol" in my writings

Happy birthday to me

[adayinfalsettolandd]

HAPPY BEATLES DAY (again)

inspired by @/amberwaaves on the modern beatlemania community, ill list my faves from each album (with some reasoning)

i want you (shes so heavy) - abbey road

the bassline in this song has like crack in it or something because HOLLYYYY FREAKK paul mccartney what magic did you put into this song….. i can listen to this for 2 months straight its THAT good

2. if i fell - a hard days night

a classic as always… also a mclennon classic but thats besides the point!! its a really cute song and you can never go wrong with the lennon/mccartney harmonies

3. i will - the white album

this is a newer favorite of mine actually bc i heard these lyrics a while ago and couldnt find out what song they were from for the life of me.. BUT I FOUND IT AND I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!! its so sweet and i always really like all the paul songs where hes singing quietly (this, ht&e, junk, yesterday, etc)

4. oh! darling - abbey road

ok i said 1 song from every album but i cant leave this out i actually ADORE this song!!!!!! and im also so biased bc this is one of the first basslines i learned as a newbie bassist and my favorite 💓george harrison💘 is on bass for this song and pauls pounding on the keys i really feel that in my heart (and also mclennon again… i swear on my life he says “oh johnny” at somepoint)

5. when i’m sixty-four - sgt pepper’s lonely hearts club band

im completely biased to this song because it has my beloved instrument the 💖bass clarinet💕 in it but its also really endearing to here the naivety in pauls lyrics (from when he was 14) and to think of paul now whos 83

6. here, there, and everywhere - revolver

like what i said for i will, quiet pauls songs have a place in my heart (but i also clearly love loud screamy paul) and again #mclennon (sorry not sorry) the lyrics are so sweet and soft its like you can imagine the environment paul wrote this song in

7. p.s i love you - please please me

THE FIRST BEATLES SONG I LISTENED TO!!!!!!!! absolute banger idc what anybody says and now i put this p.s at the end of every letter i give to someone i love

8. michelle - rubber soul

i think the french is fun and im also a hetalian so this is very fruk coded and again the bassline… literally all basslines rubber soul and beyond are practically god tier work from (mostly) paul

9. let it be - let it be

..this is an oddly specific reason for this song but the way that paul says ‘mother mary’ with his vibrato in this song IDK IDK ITS JUST SOMETHING ABOUT IT

10. penny lane - magical mystery tour

this song has a really nice walking bassline and the music vid is kinda silly theyre just walking around and i have good memories walking around liverpool along to this song!!

11. yesterday - help!

literally who doesnt love this song????? its one of the first beatles songs i learned on guitar and its literally a classic.. no notes its perfectly sad 10/10

12. no reply - beatles for sale

this song is 1 good 2 has a really funny blooper reel and i cant unhear it when i listen to this song LOLOL

13. all my loving - meet the beatles

peak song from an underrated album tbh one of their best love songs from the early years and it has a good boogie melody to it with the backing guitars

14. all you need is love - yellow submarine

just cause its silly and its true!!!! all you need is love peace and love and the instrumental is so fun too with all the fun instruments

i hope all of you had a fun beatles day!!!🪲

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[image description: Screenshot of the note Dylan received on Severance: Transcription: From O&D, first turn right, all the way down the hall and then turn right, turn right, turn left, [d]own a long hall & turn left, turn left, turn right [ri]ght, left, left, right, right, left, right, left, left, [ri]ight, right, left, left down long hall and turn [rig]ht, then left, right, turn right one more time and all the way down a long hallway...]

Anyway, use this cheat code in Mario 64 to see peen.

[rosetyler42]

Ok, I hope this gets taken in the good faith this is meant. Then again the original this meme is based on is meant as a joke about racism, so...here we go. Hopefully this isn't in horrible taste.

I've been seeing antisemitism on the rise due to current events, and at the risk of being accused of fandomizing in the reverse, I felt compelled to make something in response. Particularly since one of my current hyperfixations and my latest dhampir OCs have themes of discrimination and misconseptions with heavy Jewish coding. It also works as a fun way to get out some insecurities with my HT OC Lucy being a half-Jewish vampirey dhampirica and how she might be seen by others. It seems like the kind of joke she'd make, too.

I know it's a jokey and perhaps cringe way of handling a serious topic. That's how I deal with things sometimes. You laugh or you cry, they say. Though the original MIB 3 line is ALSO a joke about discrimination and assumptions. So hopefully this doesn't get me flamed by both sides.

@lovelylivelyv @heartsong1994 @deathfangirl9 @hotelt-resurrection @kittyball23 @oc-center @oc-celebration @oc-culture @morsobaby @howling-nightmare @jewsinfandoms

[batsplat]

from a post a week ago, and now apparently casey is going around calling himself 'calculating' after I implicitly placed him on the other end of that particular spectrum. I genuinely am unsure whether casey has ever used the word 'calculating' before to describe anyone. follow-up to me saying the casey/valentino dinner stonks were looking low, twelve years into casey's retirement, only for it to take a literal month before they eat dinner together. casey's contrarianism is on such generational levels that I'm now beginning to feel he's coming for me specifically

now obviously, there is plenty to be said about casey implicitly grouping himself in the 'mind' (dovi, pecco, valentino) camp rather than the 'ability' (dani, marc) camp. much to be observed about his self-conceptualisation. and just like the dinner thing 🤓🤓🤓 it doesn't contradict anything I've said ☝️ 🤓 because the whole point is that casey is the valentino rival who can best dip into valentino's bag of tricks. like, on the one hand you have the dichotomy --

-- but on the other hand, obviously you have casey's entire preoccupation with learning from valentino (x) --

-- AND you have casey whole THING about confidence and the hatred of being seen as mentally weak in any way, paired with this idea he has of himself of someone who is people smart and can read others well (x) --

-- and what you're left with is a collapsing of the boundaries (x) --

-- that neatly separate the two of them. as a dichotomy, it can be confounded. both of them are often happy enough to play into the whole 'ambition vs talent' framing that forms the bedrock of their rivalry because it does to some extent also reflect what both of them genuinely value. casey needs to have supreme confidence in his own natural ability, valentino likes to outsmart his competitors and is flattered by the idea of beating a rival as ridiculously capable as casey. they're not ALWAYS comfortable with it, they've definitely gotten prickly about it in the past... and casey in particular certainly doesn't like the idea valentino could get one over on him psychologically (notes from a girl who tried and failed to spell that word correctly about half a dozen times, which is perhaps the most embarrassing word for me specifically to not be able to spell)

been collaboratively workshopping a theory that part of why valentino appears to be so supremely unbothered by casey talking inordinate amounts of shit about valentino these past few years is that... fundamentally, most of the things valentino is being attacked for he doesn't exactly mind. substantively, casey's critiques have focused around 1) valentino making an enemy out of casey, 2) valentino not paying casey any respect, 3) valentino shooting himself in the foot by making an enemy out of casey, 4) valentino not doing enough to keep his fans under control, and 5) valentino using the media to make casey's life miserable. valentino could argue his case here and plausibly argue casey is misrepresenting a few key details, but fundamentally if casey thinks 2007-08 valentino deliberately antagonised casey outside of the scope of their on-track rivalry... well, whatever, rivalries are fun! if valentino is going to be portrayed as the bad guy in this rivalry then. who cares. and (3) is fairly obviously incorrect - it represents casey's idea of what he would have liked their rivalry post-laguna to have looked like, but it's also not going to bother valentino insofar as it's clearly wrong. makes it less likely it's something he's sensitive about, right. every story needs a villain, and my guess is that there's portrayals valentino would object more to than 'machiavellian dickhead'

on casey's end, obviously there's also an element of self-consciousness to casey struggling to find a word to describe himself. talent is the obvious one to go for... maybe just doesn't want to use that as his word. when jorge recently described his fellow aliens, he associated dani with his incredible technique, marc with his fearlessness, casey with his unconventional talent and capacity for improvisation, and valentino with his intelligence, charisma and lucidity when racing. to be honest, if I were doing this exercise for casey, I too would probably tend towards that improvisational ability first and foremost - adaptable, maybe. the words he uses for doohan and fabio respectively, stubborn and resilient, also would be fairly close to the top of my list. so idk, isn't it interesting he goes the other way!! such a fun lil nugget that taps into his self-conceptualisation - and from the pov of the casey/valentino rivalry, something about how he recognises in himself the traits he begrudgingly respected in valentino. this is why they're so fun, right:

but casey's timing is still funny. did also give that post-ranch interview on the same day as I posted about how he'd soon go back to slagging valentino off, which I still fully believe but didn't pick a great time to talk about. give it a rest, man

[zu-is-here]

Okey zu, there are some interesting law implications here.

For one Ink is set on the idea that once you've left your time line, you can just settle in a new au right? Because you need to stay with your original coded purpose.

Cross says that the timeline is his. Does that mean that him and Dream aren't just on the timeline, but they have implanted themselves into the code of the timeline?

If that's the case then does that link to the adult aim universe. Idk if those two universes are the same cannon but these two are dead in atleast one. Is implanting themselves into the code of a new timeline the cause of stripping dream of his immortality perhaps.

Something is fishy there.

Also when ink talking about the true owner of the timeline is it aim? Is it because aim was born from Cross's soul. Or is it someone else perhaps.

Also looking back on past pages, did ink do something to Killer? I have a bad feeling that perhaps there's a reason that he was all glitches and broken up on a past page.

Idk

Coming along great!

Digging deeper to the truth as always! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)★ You see, these two has their own truth:

Ink considers Cross & Dream outcodes cause they once left their AUs and now don't belong anywhere, so any of their interventions is a violation (For example: Cross & Dream can't become part of Heaventale just because they stayed there, right? No HT!Cross/Dream is possible since they initially didn't belong there);

Cross believes that Dream & he are no longer outcodes cause they abandoned their original roles, intentionally settled in one timeline and thus became incodes (like, you can tell them apart from their original versions by their clothes, etc., they're not what they used to be).

Ink also claims that only a character created inside their world can be an incode, and that's Aim indeed (not so much because he's Cross' son; Ink doesn't believe in blood ties, they're all just creations for him, and Aim was created just for this “storyline”).

Adult!Aim's route may be one of the other timelines that aren't considered canon;

As for Dream's mortality, that's an interesting version, we'll be back to this issue :)

Speaking of Killer, those glitches just show that he has a key to their hidden timeline <3

Thank you so much!╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

Not quite but that's a right choice :)

I really wanted to show how Ink traumatizes Aim not only morally but also physically, because this aversion to sudden and unwanted touches was passed on to Aim's adult version (>_<") (Don't worry, we'll get the chance >:3c)

Same! <3 I like how they complement each other, with Dream staying cold and controling Cross' aggression so as not to make things worse for all of them, especially for Aim ("��3ò)

Hmm... There was a more complete answer here somewhere, I'll try to find it! And that's a great idea, but this Cross is not as chaotic... yet?

OH?? (≧∀≦) Even I didn't foresee this option, ears for skeletons! >:D

And that's right! (๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪

Thank youuu ;D <3

[adafruit]

Desk of Ladyada - Tariff Talk! ASK AWAY! 📦🌎💸

We're doing the show tonight or Tues, so much is going on. Lots more questions came in too! Post yours before we go live…

This week was not a big week for engineering because we're neck-deep in tariff management! We had a video on Wednesday about the first round of tariffs announced—they have since been ratcheted up to 20% + 125% = 145% minimum on products from China and Hong Kong. "Retaliatory" tariffs on products from other countries have been paused, but there's still a 10% global tariff.

Then on Friday, it looks like some HTS codes

were "exempted" temporarily

Let's take a look at the CBP (link) and the exempt tariff codes

and see how they might apply to the kinds of stuff we use to do our electronics engineering.

The Great Search - How to Source Tariffed & Non-Tariffed Items on DigiKey

https://www.digikey.com/short/2nb7nzb3

Since this is the topic of the day, we'll be looking at how to purchase an item from DigiKey with tariffs in mind. DigiKey is a free trade zone, which means that if you're not in the USA, you will not have to pay additional tariffs on goods that are re-exported. However, for USA destinations, the new tariffs can add a significant cost if the component has its last manufacturing step in China.

Let's use the example of a simple I2C-controlled temperature sensor to see how our sourcing decisions may be impacted by tariffs.

[mariacallous]

Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included an exemption for semiconductors, which, at least for now, won’t be subject to higher import duties. But just three days later, some US tech companies may be finding that the loophole actually creates more problems than it solves. After the tariffs were announced, the White House published a list of the products that it says are unaffected, and it doesn’t include many kinds of chip-related goods.

That means only a small number of American manufacturers will be able to continue sourcing chips without needing to factor in higher import costs. The vast majority of semiconductors that come into the US currently are already packaged into products that are not exempt, such as the graphics processing units (GPUs) and servers for training artificial intelligence models. And manufacturing equipment that domestic companies use to produce chips in the US wasn’t spared, either.

“If you are a major chip producer who is making a sizable investment in the US, a hundred billion dollars will buy you a lot less in the next few years than the last few years,” says Martin Chorzempa, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The US Department of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment.

Stacy Rasgon, a senior analyst covering semiconductors at Bernstein Research, says the narrow exception for chips will do little to blunt wider negative impacts on the industry. Given that most semiconductors arrive at US borders packaged into servers, smartphones, and other products, the tariffs amount to “something in the ballpark of a 40 percent blended tariff on that stuff,” Rasgon says, referring to the overall import duty rate applied.

Rasgon notes that the semiconductor industry is deeply dependent on other imports and on the overall health of the US economy, because the components it makes are in so many kinds of consumer products, from cars to refrigerators. “They are macro-exposed,” he says.

To determine what goods the tariffs apply to, the Trump administration relied on a complex existing system called the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), which organizes millions of different products sold in the US market into numerical categories that correspond to different import duty rates. The White House document lists only a narrow group of HTS codes in the semiconductor field that it says are exempted from the new tariffs.

GPUs, for example, are typically coded as either 8473.30 or 8542.31 in the HTS system, says Nancy Wei, a supply chain analyst at the consulting firm Eurasia Group. But Trump’s waiver only applies to more advanced GPUs in the latter 8542.31 category. It also doesn’t cover other codes for related types of computing hardware. Nvidia’s DGX systems, a pre-configured server with built-in GPUs designed for AI computing tasks, is coded as 8471.50, according to the company’s website, which means it’s likely not exempt from the tariffs.

The line between these distinctions can sometimes be blurry. In 2020, for example, an importer of two Nvidia GPU models asked US authorities to clarify what category it considered them falling under. After looking into the matter, US Customs and Border Protection determined that the two GPUs belong to the 8473.30 category, which also isn’t exempt from the tariffs.

Nvidia’s own disclosures about the customs classifications of its products paint a similar picture. Of the over 1,300 items the company lists on its website, less than one-fifth appear to be exempt from Trump’s new tariffs, according to their correspondent HTS codes. Nvidia declined to comment to WIRED on which of its products it believes the new import duties apply to or not.

Bad News for US AI Firms

If a wide range of GPUs and other electronic components are subject to the highest country-specific tariffs, which are scheduled to kick in next week, US chipmakers and AI firms could be facing a significant increase in costs. That could potentially hamper efforts to build more data centers and train the world’s most cutting-edge artificial intelligence models in the US.

That's why Nvidia’s stock price is currently “getting killed,” Rasgon says, having shed roughly one-third of its value since the start of 2025.

“AI hardware, particularly high-end GPUs from Nvidia, will see rising costs, potentially stalling AI infrastructure development in the US,” says Wei from Eurasia Group. “Cloud computing, quantum computing, and military-grade semiconductor applications could also be impacted due to higher costs and supply uncertainties.”

Mark Wu, a professor at Harvard Law School who specializes in international trade, says the looming possibility that other countries embedded in the semiconductor supply chain could impose retaliatory tariffs on the US is creating a very unpredictable environment for businesses. Trump may also soon announce more tariffs specifically targeting chips, something he alluded to at a press briefing on Thursday. “There's so many different scenarios,” Wu says. “It’s almost futile to sort of speculate without knowing what's under consideration.”

More Challenges to Reshoring

Trump has said that his trade policies are intended to bring more manufacturing to the US, but they threaten to reverse what had been a bumper period for US chipmaking. The Semiconductor Industry Association recently released figures showing that sales grew 48.4 percent in the Americas between February 2023 and 2024, far above rates in China, where sales only increased 5.6 percent, and Europe, which saw sales decrease 8.1 percent.

The US has a relatively small share of the global chipmaking market as a whole, however, due to decades of offshoring. Fabrication plants located in the country account for just 12 percent of worldwide capacity, down from 37 percent in 1990. The CHIPS Act, introduced under the Biden administration, sought to reverse the trend by appropriating $52 billion for investment in chip manufacturing, training, and research. Trump called the law a “horrible thing” and recently set up a new office to manage its investments.

A glaring omission in the list of HTS code exempt from Trump’s tariffs are those that correspond to lithography machines, a highly sophisticated category of equipment central to chipmaking. Most of the world’s advanced lithography machines are made today in countries like the Netherlands (subject to a 20 percent tariff) and Japan (a 24 percent tariff). If these devices become significantly more costly to import, it could get in the way of bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the US.

Also hit by Trump’s tariffs are a litany of less fancy but still essential ingredients for chipmaking: steel, aluminum, electrical components, lighting, and water treatment technology. All of those goods could become more expensive thanks to tariffs. “This is the classic tariff conundrum: If you put tariffs on something, it protects one kind of business, but everything upstream and downstream can lose out,” says Chorzempa.

US Allies Feel the Heat

While some countries that are already subject to US sanctions, like Russia and North Korea, were not included in the tariffs, many American allies are, like Taiwan, which plays an outsize role in the global semiconductor supply chain today compared to its size, because it’s home to companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which produces the lion's share of the world’s most advanced chips.

Taiwan will still feel the impact of the tariffs, despite the semiconductor carve-out, because most of what it actually exports to the US is not exempt, says Jason Hsu, a former Taiwan legislator and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a DC-based think tank.

Only about 10 percent of Taiwan’s exports to the US last year were semiconductor products that would be exempt from the new tariffs, according to trade data released by the Department of Commerce. The vast majority of Taiwan’s exports are things like data servers and will be taxed an additional 32 percent.

Unlike TSMC, Taiwanese companies that make servers often operate on thin margins, so they may have no choice but to raise prices for their American clients. “We might be looking at AI server prices going completely out of the roof after that,” Hsu says.

Hsu notes that the new tariffs will particularly hurt Southeast Asian countries, which could undermine a long-standing US strategic objective to decouple from supply chains in China. Countries in the region are being hit with some of the highest tariff rates of all—like Vietnam at 46 percent and Thailand at 36 percent—figures that could deter chipmaking companies like Intel and Micron from moving their factories out of China and into these places.

“I see no soft landing to this,” Hsu says. “I see this as becoming an explosion of global supply chain disorder and chaos. The ramifications are going to be very long and painful.”