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Trump backs off on electronics tariffs (updated)


Reacting to continuing stock market woes and perhaps tech industry lobbyin, Trump backed off on tariffs for electronics late last night.

Reacting to continuing stock market woes and perhaps tech industry lobbying, U.S. President Donald Trump backed off on tariffs for electronics late last night. But my interview with Deloitte in January suggested that such a process could take decades to accomplish, and it is best done so with subsidies where the U.S. matches what foreign governments do in helping get the factories off the ground for multiple parties. “That’s why the President has secured trillions of dollars in U.S. investments from the largest tech companies in the world, including Apple, TSMC, and Nvidia.

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