{"id":70495,"date":"2025-04-12T23:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70495"},"modified":"2025-04-12T23:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T18:31:22","slug":"us-excludes-smartphones-and-computers-from-global-trump-era-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/mobile-phones\/us-excludes-smartphones-and-computers-from-global-trump-era-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"US excludes smartphones and computers from global Trump-era tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trump-administration-to-eliminate-1600-usaid-jobs\/\">Trump administration<\/a> has exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from punitive \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs &#8212; reducing the cost impact on American consumers for a host of popular high-tech products.<\/p>\n<p>The exemption, published late Friday in a notice from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office, covers a variety of electronic goods, including smartphones and parts, entering the United States from China, which is currently subject to a staggering additional 145 percent tariff.<\/p>\n<p>Semiconductors are also exempt from the \u201cbaseline\u201d 10 percent tariff on most U.S. trading partners and the additional 125 percent tariff on China.<\/p>\n<p>The exemption lowers the threshold for the 10 percent levies announced by President Donald Trump earlier this month, and punitive additional rates on goods from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-excludes-china\/\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has targeted China in particular with his \u201creciprocal tariffs\u201d aimed at addressing Washington\u2019s perceived unfair practices, most recently introducing a new 125 percent tariff on goods from the world\u2019s second-largest economy that took effect this week.<\/p>\n<p>That rate was on top of China\u2019s alleged role in fentanyl supply chains and a 20 percent levy imposed on existing tariffs by the previous administration, which brought the total figure to at least 145 percent for many products.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the exempted products, including hard drives and computer processors, are not typically made in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has touted the tariffs as a way to bring manufacturing back to the United States, it will take years to ramp up domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from punitive \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs &#8212; reducing the cost impact on American consumers for a host of popular high-tech products. The exemption, published late Friday in a notice from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office, covers a variety of electronic goods, including smartphones and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14812],"tags":[470,9053,184],"class_list":["post-70495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile-phones","tag-china","tag-trump-administration","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70496,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495\/revisions\/70496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}