The Trump administration late Friday Friday, said that it excludes electronics such as 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 decision would also benefit large technological companies such as Apple and Samsung and flea manufacturers like Nvidia.
Customs and the protection of American borders have listed around twenty products which are eligible for the exemption. They include hard drives, memory chips, flat panel monitors and semiconductor storage devices, as well as machines used to make semiconductors.
This means that they will not be subject to the current rates of 145% taken from China, or the reference rates of 10% elsewhere.
Trump previously said that he was planning to exemers certain prices companies.
This decision removes “a huge overhang of black clouds for the moment in the technological sector and the pressure that is confronted with Big Tech,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, in a research note.
US President Donald Trump announced a 90 -day break on his “Liberation Day” prices specific to the country – with the exception of China, which is now faced with a rate of 125%.
Trump’s reciprocal prices have raised fears of an American recession and aroused criticism from his republican colleagues, who do not want to lose control of the House of American Representatives and the Senate with Democrats in the mid-term elections next year.
Neither Apple nor Samsung responded to a request for comments early Saturday. Nvidia refused to comment.
The opinion did not provide any explanation of the Trump administration’s decision and the White House officials did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the reasons why the last tariff exemptions were made.
Trump introduced himself to a re -election last year in large part on a promise to reduce prices, which, fueled by the inflation of the Pandemic and the Russia War in Ukraine, had tarnished the economic reputation of the president of the time, Joe Biden and his democratic allies.
But Trump also promised as a candidate to impose the prices which have become a central element of his economic agenda, and the American president rejected turbulence on the financial markets and the expected price increases resulting from levies as a disturbance which was a necessary part of the realign of the global economy and the order of world exchanges with his vision.
Apple has manufactured most of its iPhones in China since the first model 18 years ago.
“The concept of manufacturing iphones in the United States is a non-start,” said Ives, reflecting an opinion widely used in the investment community which follows each Apple movement.
Apple deterrents change its production at the national level include a complex supply chain that it began to build in China in the 1990s. He would take several years and cost billions of dollars to build new factories in the United States, then confront Apple with economic forces that could triple the price of an iPhone, threatening to torpedo the sales of its gallery product.
Ives estimated that the current price of $ 1,000 in the United States for an iPhone manufactured in China, or in India would increase to more than $ 3,000 if production was moving to the United States and that he says that he believes that the movement of production at the national level could probably only be done at the earliest, 2028.
