By Greg Papandrew I recently visited Thailand with my business partner, Clement Yuen, to check out the PCB manufacturing environment there. My first visit was in 2023, when ground...
It’s getting closer, but not there yet... By Greg Papandrew, DirectPCB co-founder QUOTING PRINTED CIRCUIT boards – especially for high-mix, low-to-medium volume requirements – can be extremely time-consuming and, at...
First appeared in Circuits Assembly magazine… An in-person visit reveals unrealized potential. It’s been almost two years since the authors’ first visit to Thailand, which occurred just after Covid...
Over the weekend, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced the extension of exclusions in the Section 301 Tariffs. The exclusions that were previously scheduled to...
A year and a half after our first visit, here’s our impression of today’s PCB manufacturing environment in Thailand…
With the reality being that there is no “drop-in” replacement for the manufacturing capacity and technology of China, what’s a board buyer to do with all of today’s PCB tariff...
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Tariffs on PCBs manufactured in China are still holding at 145% for 2 and 4-layer rigid and 170% for all other layer counts and technologies. Contact me to find...
*𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵! The “tariffying” news continues: All printed circuit boards (PCBs) manufactured in China, regardless of layer count, are at this time subject to the...