Did Computing just get more expensive in Canada

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I don’t know the fine details of the tariffs but could my Microsoft office subscription now have a 25% tariff as I am Canadian? I was a SQL Server DBA before I retired so could the cost go up running Microsoft SQL Server due to the tariffs?

Just wondering.

Chris

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It depends on how the trade war evolves. Right now the US tariffs and Canadian counter-tariffs are just on goods.So an item of boxed software sent from Canada to the US is now  subject to a 25% tariff. A download of software might be classified as a good, in which case it would be theoretically subject to the tariff, but in practice that would be unlikely. A subscription to the same software would be trade in services, so not subject to the tariff.

But if they scope of the measures evolves to include services then the subscription would (again, theoretically) would be subject to a tariff.

Ken

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Thanks for explaining the tariffs for me. I don’t know the exact details so I thought I would ask and see if somebody could explain them.

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