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Trump appears to backtrack on US electronics tariff exceptions, but no one seems to know exactly what's going on
Trump has apparently backtracked on tariff exceptions for Chinese electrical goods like PCs, but the details of a new "semiconductor tariff" are unclear.
US president Donald Trump has effectively backtracked on the tariff exemptions announced last Friday which indicated that some electronics, like PCs, would escape the country's 145 percent levy on Chinese goods. Chinese electrical goods would simply now be placed in "a different tariff bucket", Trump continued, concluding that National Security Tarriff Investigations would be reviewing "the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN". Speaking to CBS News, US trade representative Jamieson Greer confirmed this semiconductor tariff meant Chinese electrical goods had therefore been given something that was "not really an exception.
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