The Trump administration announced that several electronic devices, such as smartphones and computers, will be exempt from tariffs that have imposed the leg to China.
In a newsletter published Friday night by the US Customs and Protection Agency, it was revealed that certain products would be exempt from tariffs. Exemptions rates in certain products “apply retroactively to April 5,” according to Axios. The products would be exempt from recent applied rates, while other rates prior to April 2 would still be applied.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, explained in a statement that President Donald Trump “has made clear” that the United States “cannot trust China to manufacture critical technologies such as semiconductors, chips, smartphones and laptop computers.”
“President Trump has made it clear that the United States cannot trust China to make critical technologies such as semiconductors, chips, smartphones and laptops,” Leavitt said in a statement, according to The Outlet. “That is why the president has secured billions of dollars in US investments of the world’s largest technological companies, including Apple, TSMC and Nvidia.”
CNBC reported that the US CBP guide. “Includes devices and ex -onic components, including semiconductors, solar cells, flat panel TV screen, flash units and memory cards.”
The White House Secretary, Kush Desai, explained that “companies rush to establish their manufacture in the United States as soon as possible.”
The outlet explained that “the 20 categories of products listed in CBP guidelines are apparently exempt from” the 125 percent tariff that Trump had imposed on Chinese imports:
The 20 categories of products listed in the CBP guidelines are apparently exempt from the 125% rate imposed by Trump in Chinese imports and the 10% basal rate in imports from other countries. A 20% tariff over all Chinese products is still valid.
In a presidential memorandum, Trump explained:
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As John Hayward from Breitbart News reported previously, China recently increased its tariff on US imports to 125 percent, after Trump raised the “China punitive tar rate to 125 percent”, and “joined the 20 returns to deceive in February in fentanil fentanyl crisis.
