The administration of the American president Donald Trump exempted smartphones, computers and certain other electronic devices from “reciprocal” prices, including 125% levies imposed on Chinese imports.
Us Customs and Border Patrol published a late opinion on Friday, explaining that goods would be excluded from the global rate of 10% of Trump on most countries and the much larger Chinese import tax.
This decision comes after the concerns of American technological companies that the price of gadgets could soar, because many of them are manufactured in China.
It is the first important suspended sentence of all kinds in Trump’s prices on China, with a commercial analyst describing it as a “scenario of game change”.
Exemptions – rear to April 5 – also include other devices and electronic components, including semiconductors, solar cells and memory cards.
“This is the dream scenario for technological investors,” said Dan Ives, who is the world leader in technological research at Wedbush Securities, published on X. “Smartphones, chips being excluded is a game game scenario with regard to prices in China.”
Large technological companies such as Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft and the wider technology industry can push a huge sigh of relief this weekend, he added.
The White House said the exemptions had been made to ensure that companies had more time to move production in the United States.
“President Trump clearly said that America cannot count on China to make critical technologies such as semiconductors, fries, smartphones and laptops,” said the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a statement.
“In the direction of the president, these companies collapsed to expose their manufacture in the United States as soon as possible.”
Trump, who spends the weekend in his home in Florida, told journalists on Friday that he was comfortable with high prices on China.
“And I think something positive will get out,” he said, praising his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
These electronic goods are always subject to the tariff of 20% on China linked to fentanyl, deputy chief of the White House on the policy that Stephen Miller published on X.
Certain estimates have suggested that iPhone prices in the United States may have as much as tripled if the costs were transmitted to consumers.
The United States is a major market for iPhones, while Apple represented more than half of its smartphone sales last year, according to Counterpoint Research.
He says that 80% of Apple iPhones intended for American sales are made in China, the remaining 20% made in India.
Like his giant colleague of the Samsung smartphone, Apple has tried to diversify its supply chains to avoid excessive dependence on China in recent years.
India and Vietnam have emerged as advantages for additional manufacturing centers.
While the prices took effect, Apple would have sought to speed up and increase its production of products produced in India in recent days.
Trump had planned a host of steep prices on countries around the world to take effect this week.
But Wednesday, he announced that he would take a 90 -day break for countries affected by higher American prices – with the exception of China, whose rates he raised 145%.
Trump said the increase in the price for China was due to the country’s desire to retaliate with its own 84% sample from American products.
In a spectacular change of policy, Trump said that not all countries that had not retaliated against American prices would receive the stay – and would only face a tariff of 10% – in July.
The White House then said that this decision was a negotiation tactic to extract more favorable commercial conditions from other countries.
Trump said his import taxes will tackle injustice in the world trading system, as well as to bring back jobs and factories to the United States.
