I was just being facetious about the general pain we're feeling from the US's new tariff-based national sales tax. And I haven't been following any reciprocal actions for what is now expensive to get into China. Are -C5's only made in Taiwan or something?

No, ICs are explicitly exempt (along with a lot of other electronics parts categories.)

Ah, well that's handy to know. For this week, at least. I've just been watching the 3d printer parts I just squeaked in under the de minimis wire triple in price due to the new taxes.