Trump Planning Semiconductor Tariffs That Will Impact Apple, No One 'Getting Off the Hook'

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Apple volition not beryllium exempt from tariffs aft all, with U.S. President Donald Trump moving connected caller semiconductor levies that volition apt interaction Apple devices, chips from companies similar Nvidia, and different electronics.


Over the weekend, the U.S. Customers and Border Protection bureau shared a agelong database of physics devices excluded from the existent tariffs, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, the Apple Watch, and more. Apple scored a reprieve from the 145 percent tariff impacting goods imported from China and the 10 percent tariff connected goods imported from different countries, but it doesn't dependable similar it's going to last.

On his Truth Social network, Trump said that nary 1 is "getting disconnected the hook" and determination "was nary tariff exception." Apple and different tech companies are "just moving to a antithetic tariff bucket," with the 20 percent "Fentanyl Tariffs" inactive successful place, and further tariffs coming.

Trump said that his medication volition beryllium "taking a look" astatine semiconductors and the electronics proviso concatenation successful the National Security Tariff Investigations. He besides reiterated that "we request to marque products successful the United States." Trump is expected to denote immoderate benignant of semiconductor tariff successful the coming days.

Trump has suggested that Apple could manufacture the iPhone and different products in the United States, but adjacent if specified a determination were not wildly expensive, Apple would not beryllium capable to find capable radical with the indispensable skillset to assemble devices successful the quantities needed. U.S. manufacturing would besides thrust the outgo of the ‌iPhone‌ up significantly.
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