Finding out

Now, I don’t want to say I told you so, but if you follow this blog and you thought this wasn’t going to come up again you owe me a whole basket of Easter candy, or at least the acknowledgment that we are still going to be talking about tariffs.

If you follow our articles and blogs closely, you’re probably not shocked by this week’s topic (or just read the news in general).  Editor Cory Harris talked about this in February, I posted my own blog about it in November last year if you can believe it. We didn’t have to wait the full year to see how this affair shook out, boy what a difference a few months can make.

If you’re wondering how the tariffs are being received around the security industry I can tell you that I had about a dozen conversations about it at ISC West this year. They ranged from one company man stating that they’d be able to absorb the costs (for now), to a wordless thumb in the air indicating the price hikes that would occur. One of my visits saw a representative complaining because the tariffs would drive up the scarcity (and thus costs) of US-based steel that they already used in their products.

The most positive response I heard was that maybe things would change for the better in the following days. Dear readers that was a whole week ago, the world has changed in that week and not for the better.

By the time you’re reading this blog everything might have already changed again. A whole new world of consequences. Q1 2025 meetings are starting to sneak up on us and I’m curious to know if the tariff apocalypse will show up on those balance sheets or we’ll have to wait for Q2 to see the blood bath.

If you thought eggs were bad I can’t wait to see what your next iPhone is going to cost.