He Trump administration On Friday, he said they would exclude electronics as smartphones and laptops of reciprocal rates, a movement that could help keep prices for popular consumption electronics that are generally not performed in the United States.
It would also benefit large technological companies such as Apple and Samsung and chips manufacturers such as NVIDIA.
Customs and border protection of the United States said that articles such as smartphones, laptops, hard drives, flat panel monitors and some chips would qualify for the exemption. The machines used to make semiconductors are also excluded. That means that they will not be subject to current rates of 145% collected Porcelain or 10% reference rates in other places.
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It is the last tariff change of the Trump administration, which has made several U turns in its massive plan to establish rates in the goods of most countries. The objective is to encourage more domestic manufacturing. But exemptions seem to recognize that the current electronic supply chain is practically in Asia and it will be a challenge to change that to the United States, for example, about 90% of iPhones occur and assemble in China, according to Wedbush Securities.
The movement takes off “a huge cantilever from the black cloud for now on the technological sector and the pressure facing the great American technology,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Iives in a research note.
Trump said previously that he would consider exempting some tariff companies.
Neither Apple nor Samsung responded to a comment request at dawn on Saturday. Nvidia declined to comment.
The White House did not immediately respond to a comment request on Saturday.
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