The Trump administration’s tariffs have gone into effect, and companies and shoppers have been scrambling to figure out how to react. On Tuesday, it appeared that tech company Razer had pulled its Razer Blade laptops and the newly released Razer Adjustable Laptop Stand from its website, where they remain out of stock as of Friday.
Currently, the 14-, 16- and 18-inch Razer laptops and the laptop stand are all listed as out of stock, with a Notify Me button in lieu of a purchase button. Razer’s laptop accessories and other products are still available, including the brand’s lines of gaming mice and keyboards.
On Tuesday, the laptops were still in stock on Razer’s Canada website. However, those too have since gone out of stock. Unlike the US store, though, pre-orders on upcoming Razer laptops are still available. As noted by The Verge, the Internet Archive shows the products were all available for purchase as of April 1 in both the US and Canadian stores.
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Razer hasn’t publicly confirmed that the pause in sales is due to the tariffs, but that seems to be the prevailing theory. Trump raised tariffs of Chinese-made goods — which includes Razer’s Chinese-made laptops — to 145% on Friday, causing China to reciprocate with a 125% tariff on US-made goods.
“In the case of Razer, tariffs seem to be the likely reason as they are not only leading to increased pricing but also creating incredible amounts of uncertainty within the market,” IDC Research Manager Jitesh Ubrani told CNET in an email. “In the short term, we’re likely going to see more of this from other vendors too as they gauge their chances of success with each product.”
If the reason for Razer pulling laptops is due to the tariffs, it would join laptop-maker Framework as the second company to pause sales because of it over the last week. Framework posted on X that its smallest configuration, the Framework Laptop 13, would be removed from US sites due to the tariff.
“We priced our laptops when tariffs on imports from Taiwan were 0%,” the company said in a follow-up tweet. “At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss. Other consumer goods makers have performed the same calculations and taken the same actions, though most have not been open about it.”
A representative for Razer did not respond to a request for comment.
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Tariffs have already shaken up the global economic picture, starting with a massive stock market dip that rivaled the one seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nintendo has delayed preorders for the Switch 2, and the imminent sale of TikTok was delayed due to tariff concerns.
Prices haven’t increased for most products just yet, as many tech companies have stock of existing products that arrived before the tariffs went into effect. Apple reportedly flew five plane-loads of iPhones into the US at the last minute to dodge Trump’s tariffs.
Analysts agree that the tariffs will cause the price of goods to go up, and more companies will likely pull products from the shelves. The threat of higher prices and vanishing products has already increased foot traffic to stores as consumers attempt to make their final big purchases before the tariffs hit store shelves.
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