The Trump administration has excluded “smartphones, computer systems, and different electronics” from tariffs, even these imported from China, reports Bloomberg.
Late final night time, US Customs and Border Safety (CBP) updated its guidance to exempt smartphones, laptops, arduous drives, laptop processors, and reminiscence chips from the tariffs, in response to Bloomberg. The identical goes for the machines utilized by corporations like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to make semiconductors, the outlet notes. The replace follows Trump’s determination to problem a “90-day pause” on increased tariff charges for many nations, whereas growing the speed for Chinese language imports, the identical day they went into impact.