United States President Donald Trump
Nathan Howard | Atmosphere
President Donald Trump and its highest commercial officials added on Sunday to confusion about the tariff plans of their administration, including the newly announced exemptions For reciprocal rates in electronic products such as phones, computers and semiconductors.
Trump and his auxiliaries suggested the exemptions, which were erased added 145% rates Many Chinese electronics devices and components – It would be partially or completely reversed in the coming weeks. A 20% separate rate on all Chinese goods is still in effect.
The exemptions were revealed for the first North -American customs and border protectionand confirmed by the White House Saturday.
But Trump on Sunday afternoon raised doubts about the duration of exemptions, which were seen as an advantage for technology companies, including Applehe makes iPhones and most other products in China.
« No one is doing » out of the hook « for unjust commercial balances and non -monetary fare barriers, which other countries have used against us, especially not in China, which, by far, treats us the worst! » Trump write In a post on social media.
« There was no exception of » announced « rate on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl rates, and they only move to a » different fare bucket, « said Trump. » False news knows it, but it refuses to report it. We are taking a look at the semiconductors and the electronics supply chain at the upcoming national security rates research. «
Previous Sunday, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick He suggested that the exemptions are temporary and said that separate rates of « soon » electronic products.
« They are exempt from reciprocal rates but are included in the Semiconductors’ rates, They probably arrived a month or two, « Lutnick said to ABC News » « this week. »
“So it’s not like a permanent type of exemption.
Lutnick added: « These are things that are the national security we have to do in America. »
Lutnick’s comments and Trump’s social media post launch cold water to the hope that popular technological products made in China, such as computers, laptops, smartphones and flat panel televisions, would be from 145% of Trump’s reciprocal rates, the functions of the prices of American importers and are generally transmitted to consumers.
They also add more uncertainty about Trump’s fare policy, which has changed repeatedly since he took office. Democratic legislators on Sunday said that the changes cause « chaos » and a crisis of credibility for Trump.
The representative of North trade -American Jamieson Greer, to try to clarify why the exemptions were made, said Sunday that they are no « really an exception », although the executive order that Trump signed on the exemptions is entitled « in part » clarification of exceptions « .
« What happened is that this type of supply chain moved from the tariff regime for the global rate, the reciprocal rate, and moved to the national security rate regime, » Greer said Care the Nation « .
Reciprocal rate exemptions initially involved a sigh of relief for large technology companies, including Apple and chip manufacturers like Nvidia.
But democratic Sen. Cory Booker From New Jersey said the confusion similar to the reversal of the Trump administration at the end of Friday on reciprocal rates of some China electronics and its sudden call on Wednesday by A 90 -day break By enhancing new rates in other countries, it is detrimental to the United States
« President Trump now has a crisis in credibility, » he said in an interview on Sunday at NBC News « Meet the Press ». « We are listening all over the world. People don’t know if they can trust him. »
Sen. Elizabeth WarrenD-Mass, warned that the business crisis would deter companies invest in the United States « right now what we have is chaos, » CNN’s state of the Union said on Sunday.
« Investors will not invest in the United States when Donald Trump plays in red and green light with rates. »
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