Who OEM's Security Camera Warehouse Cameras And NVR?

"I do think you need to look at bit more at posts titles where you say "The Chinese," when you mean "The Chinese Government."

find one as an example please - I couldn't find any IPVM post titles with "The Chinese" in it.  Can you?

To many people, especially younger people, this comes across like saying "The Jews."

this statement is patently ridiculous. "The Chinese" simply means 'from China' and is not an ethnic/religious pejorative - unlike your comparative example of "The Jews" which absolutely is.

"Chinese" in America is used as an ethnicity, but it is really a nationality. Han or Hanzu is the ethnicity that most Americans mean by "Chinese."

disagree with this unsupported premise.

Most Americans wouldn't know Han from Hanzu... so exactly how can we use "Chinese" as an ethnicity while simultaneously being unaware of same?

In my experience, 'most Americans' use Chinese as a nationality (as you mention it is).

China is not intentionally falling down. They're intentionally blocking out other kids from eating their candy while they take other's candy.

I don't think you guys really do enough homework here.

(1) Current US manufacturers aren't going to sell in China; not at scale, anyways. US electronics companies don't make products that are downmarket enough for the majority of the developing world. US goods sold in China, like all of the developing world, are primarily luxury or enterprise goods. Just look at how KFC is marketed in China. A 17% tariff on luxury goods can be absorbed without affecting demand too heavily because the person who is buying a luxury or enterprise good has money. Additionally, the margins of the distributor/retailer/manufacturer of luxury goods are already high enough to absorb a tariff - at least in the near term. A tariff on low end products, on the other must be passed on to the consumer. Products sold in Walmart don't have enough margin to support a 10% tariff, the person who pay is the consumer.

(2) Hikvision made 6 of its 7 billion last year from sales in China. Even if zero units shipped out of China, Hikvision will still be one of the most dominant players in security camera systems from Chinese sales alone - and zero units can't be achieve unless we get the whole world on board, which we have failed to do.

(3) A tariff just won't can't be as nimble as you want it to be. Most of the companies that I deal with are talking about setting up manufacturing plants in Vietnam and Thailand to make sure that the tariffs don't affect them in the future. 

(4) Even if the US could get the entire rest of the world on board with a massive tariff against Chinese goods, China could just increase the Made in China 2020 subsidy to overcome the tariff. If you want to bring manufacturing back, don't call for a tariff, call for a general electronics subsidy. You're right that US manufacturing is competing in an unfair marketplace, but your solution isn't going to help. If we want manufacturing to come back, we just need the political will to subsidize it. You can't defeat a subsidy with a tariff. You can only fight a subsidy with your own subsidy. 

You see it differently because you are the one making money off of China's policy

This is also not true. The tariffs are going to help SCW, not hurt us. My self-interest would be to root for them, at least in the short term. Here's why:

(1) We've already taken steps on the supply side to insure that we are insulated from too much of the potential damage from the tariffs. We've also setup revenue diversity on the product side by carrying some non-tariffed alarm products. I believe that we won't necessarily have to raise prices for some time.

(2) Our customer service and support focus means that our client base isn't that price conscious to begin with. Our clients know that they can get security cameras cheaper, they come to us for our service, technical support, and company culture. Direct quote from that page: "Here at SCW, we're known for our customer service and technical support. We even like to say internally that our core product isn't security cameras, it's support!"

(3) This is going to drive some smaller online retailers and distributors out of business, but SCW won't be one of them. I know of, but cannot reveal because of NDAs, 4 companies in the OEM space that are struggling to maintain profitability and pay bills now. These companies won't be able to compete if Friday's 25% tariff goes into effect. It will be a different world with 25% higher costs. Few competitors and less of a price gap (since we won't have to raise prices) will mean that SCW would actually benefit from this.

(4) Even if the space doesn't shed competitors, the gap between our prices and these low price OEMs should shorten about the same time that we launch an additional a third and fourth source of revenue. The margins on products matter less when you sell services.

John:

Once again, you ignore the consumer, and for every "non-china" manufacture, there are 1000 CCTV and security companies in the USA that employ US citizens.  So when Tariffs are placed on security goods, it hurts Americans.  Again, you act as if China pays for the Tariffs. 

With your rationale, why no add more Tariffs, 50%, 60% ?  What will "level the Playing field"?