According to the US Trade Secretary Howard Lotank, the tech industry cannot be protected from new taxes.
The Trump administration announced Friday evening Consumer electronics such as laptops and smartphones will be exempt It was unveiled earlier this month. (While Trump Many of these rates delayed This week, he left the 10 % baseline tariff, and also imposed an additional 125 % tariff on sugar goods.)
Reports about discounts Note that tech products may also be affected by the incoming target tariff, semicondors are especially scrutinized.
Lotnik made it more clear during Sunday morning An interview Saying with the ABC’s show “this week” that Trump is making these products “exempt from mutual prices”, but “the semiconductor tariff, which is probably coming in a month or two.”
“All those products are coming under semidicators, and they have a special fox tariff to ensure that these products are reorganized,” said Lutnik. “We need to have a semiconductor, we need to have chips, and we need to have a flat panel – we need to make these things in the United States.”
It was pressed whether prices would mean higher prices for American consumers, Lutink said, “I don’t think so”, and then stressed, “I think the idea is that we can prepare in the United States.” (Others have said The vision of Lotnik That “Little Little is entering the small patch to make iPhones, such as the army of millions and millions of people, such a thing is coming to the United States.” Fantasy.
Trump was himself Asked about the semiconductor prices This weekend, and he said, “I’ll give you the answer on Monday.”