Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

Posted by tosh 4/12/2025

Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs(www.bloomberg.com)

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yodsanklai 4/12/2025|

Who would have guessed.

BearOso 4/12/2025|

Yeah, they're really exemplifying the "shoot first and ask questions later" model.

qgin 4/12/2025||

Not something you would do if there was any chance of a larger deal near term

almog 4/12/2025||

That might explain why Apple's stock was leading the rally yesterday...

seydor 4/13/2025||

He really seems delighted when foreign countries reach out to him and to his friends for "making deals". It's all about personal connections with his big supporters and donors, who are all apparently part of the greater government now. It should be called the "recorruption" of the US.

The US is about to find out that the rest of the world is much more adelt dealing with a corrupt government because they have more experience with it

A1vis 4/12/2025||

The media coverage seems a bit weird to me. The primary source was released 12 hours ago, but when I did a bit of research 4 hours ago I only saw a few reports from dubious Chinese sources like this: https://www.zhitongcaijing.com/content/detail/1277768.html

Then about 2 hours ago all major media outlets were covering it.

joe_guy 4/12/2025|

You're likely seeing the effect of timezones.

It was announced at 11pm and American news companies didn't feel it urgent enough to report before their usual morning weekend staff's shift.

ojbyrne 4/12/2025||

Love the timing.

thih9 4/13/2025||

I’m not from the US, after news like this I’m more likely to perceive US as unreliable - and more likely to buy Chinese alternatives too.

i_love_retros 4/13/2025||

I'm not buying anything except essential items (mostly just food) for the foreseeable future.

I imagine lots of people will do the same.

Surely this will cause a recession.

MAGA!

gotorazor 4/12/2025||

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/apple-nvidia-dell...

ghusto 4/12/2025||

Slightly off-topic, but is the result of the USA tariff "trade-war" mean that we get to trade at a discount with China in Europe? What I mean is, since it's cheaper for China to trade with us in Europe now, does that mean we gain some bargaining power?

mrweasel 4/12/2025|

One danger is that all the cheap Chinese crap will be redirected at Europe. It does have to upside of cheaper goods for Europe overall, which is fine for everything we don't make and which is overall adding value. The risk is that we also get all cheap plastic junk, unless EU regulations can keep it out environmental concerns.

jopsen 4/12/2025||

I suspect that trade policy is one of the core competences of the EU.

And countries arguing for particular tariff policies and getting cutouts is widespread EU past time.

ken47 4/12/2025|

Behind the apparent waffling, the one constant is the administration’s effort to direct hatred towards China. You have American military leaders predicting an invasion of Taiwan in a specific time window. It’s all a circus.

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