THE Trump administration Late Friday, said they excluded electronics like smartphones and laptops from reciprocal prices, a decision that could help reduce prices for consumer electronics that are generally not made in the United States
This would also benefit large technological companies like Apple and Samsung and flea manufacturers like Nvidia.
Customs and the protection of American border have declared that articles such as smartphones, laptops, hard drives, flat panels and certain chips would be eligible for exemption. The machines used to make semiconductors are also excluded. This means that they will not be subject to the current rates of 145% taken from China Or the reference rates of 10% elsewhere.
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This is the last change of price of the Trump administration, which has made several tours in their solid plan to set up prices on the goods of most countries. The objective is to encourage more national manufacturing. But exemptions seem to recognize that the supply chain in current electronics is almost all in Asia and that it will be difficult to move this in the United States, for example, around 90% of iPhones are produced and assembled in China, according to Wedbush Securities.
This decision takes off “a huge overhang of black clouds for the moment in the technological sector and the pressure that faces Big Tech,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, in a research note.
Trump previously said that he was planning to exemers certain prices companies.
Neither Apple nor Samsung responded to a request for comments early Saturday. Nvidia refused to comment.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Saturday.
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