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The Trump administration has exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its punishing “reciprocal” tariffs — lessening the cost impact on American consumers for a host of popular high-tech products.<\/p>\n
The exemptions, published late Friday in a notice by the US Customs and Border Protection office, cover various electronic goods, including smartphones and components entering the United States from China, which are currently subject to a staggering additional 145 percent tariff.<\/p>\n
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Semiconductors are also excluded from the “baseline” 10-percent tariff on most US trading partners and the added 125-percent levy on China.<\/p>\n
The exclusions narrow the range of sweeping 10-percent levies announced by President Donald Trump earlier this month and the punishing additional rate on goods from China.<\/p>\n
Trump has targeted China especially with his “reciprocal tariffs” meant to address practices Washington deemed unfair, most recently introducing a new 125-percent tariff on goods from the world’s second-biggest economy that took effect this week.<\/p>\n
The rate piled atop an earlier 20-percent levy Trump imposed over China’s alleged role in fentanyl supply chains and other existing tariffs from previous administrations — taking the full figure to at least 145 percent for many products.<\/p>\n
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Many of the exempted products, including hard drives and computer processors, generally are not made in America.<\/p>\n
While Trump has referred to tariffs as a way to bring manufacturing back to the United States, it will likely take years to ramp up domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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