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With tariff policy volatility at an all-time high, and rates changing on a daily basis, it can be difficult to get clarity around the overall pricing impact on the electronics products we build as engineers and companies selling electronics.
At MacroFab, our mission has always been to provide complete transparency into material availability, drivers of cost and drivers of lead times to designers and purchasers of electronics. We were the first company to provide a completely self-service, online pricing and ordering platform that broke out every driver to cost, even down to the labor contribution of each individual component on your PCB.
Today, our customers face new challenges in predicting pricing as trade policies swiftly change. To this end, we’re using our incredible data set built over 75,000 products, our partnerships with the leading trade data companies, and the power of our FabIQ AI-driven pricing engine to help provide clarity into tariff impacts on your products and providing new tools to ensure certainty in pricing.
Leveraging AI and Data to Illuminate Tariff Impacts
The MacroFab Platform will now identify the components and materials in your products which are impacted by tariffs and calculate the current tariffs impacting your product in real-time, updated as rates change.
In keeping with our commitment to transparency, the MacroFab Platform and FabIQ will also identify alternatives that may have potentially lower tariff rates and providing full cost transparency when searching for components. As always, FabIQ will automatically pick the lowest landed cost for PCB fabs based on your lead time and quantity requirements.
Introducing Tariff Protection SM
For all pre-paid orders, we are automatically providing our Tariff Protection service. This means no matter how tariff rates change after your order is placed, you will never be asked to pay more for tariffs.
How it works:
- The MacroFab Platform will break out estimated tariff fees in your itemized quote.
- Pay for the order in full at order time.
- If tariff rates increase, rest assured that your delivered price will not be impacted.
Let’s Build Without the Guesswork
MacroFab was started to make hardware easier—and this is one more way we’re doing just that. If you’ve got a build coming up and want to avoid the tariff drama, lock in your order now and let us take the risk off your plate.
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