The ‘smartphones‘And computer monitors are some of the electronic devices that the US has decided to leave the calls free “reciprocal tariffs“On the part of the Trump Administration, according to a notice of the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The new CBP guideline, in charge of collecting The tariffs On imports, it also includes a list with about twenty components and electronic devices, among which are semiconductor chips, flat television screens, flash units (‘pendrive’) and memory cards.
This exemption, according to this CBP document published in The last hourswill apply to those products imported to the US and who have entered the North American country or leave the stores in their places of origin from April 5.
This could represent a relief to Consumerswho faced the possibility of paying higher prices for the commercial war between the United States and China, and for American technological giants such as Apple, which manufacture much of their products in the Asian country.
- In fact, approximately 90 % of the production and assembly of the Apple iPhone It is done in China, according to Wedbush Securities estimates.
In addition, according to Everscore is, 80 % of The iPads and more than half of the MAC computers produced.
From the announcement of the Aggressive tariff policy From the Trump administration on April 2, Apple has lost more than 640,000 million dollars in market value and Microsoft has surpassed it as the most valuable quoted in the world.
Black cloud
This new guideline “now eliminates a huge black cloud over The technological sector And the pressure facing the great American technological ones (…) these have no other option, since the supply chain is essentially in Asia, “he considered the head of technological research of Wedbush Securities, Dan IVES, in a statement.
This week, the US president, Donald TrumP, postponed the application of the “duty Reciprocal “90 days to negotiate with the countries involved, but set a 10 % base tax on imports.
This helm, however, was not applied to China, to which Trump has increased the “reciprocal tariffs“At 125 %, plus another 20 % tax that already weighed against them (145 % in total), causing a proportional response of Beijing and fear of a large -scale commercial war.
