Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary
Source: ABC News
April 13, 2025, 11:17 AM
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the administration's decision Friday night to exempt a range of electronic devices from tariffs implemented earlier this month was only a temporary reprieve, with the secretary announcing that those items would be subject to "semiconductor tariffs" that will likely come in "a month or two."
"All those products are going to come under semiconductors, and they're going to have a special focus type of tariff to make sure that those products get reshored. We need to have semiconductors, we need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels -- we need to have these things made in America. We can't be reliant on Southeast Asia for all of the things that operate for us," Lutnick told "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
He continued, "So what [President Donald Trump's] doing is he's saying they're exempt from the reciprocal tariffs, but they're included in the semiconductor tariffs, which are coming in probably a month or two. So these are coming soon."
The administration's clarification comes after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection bulletin was posted Friday night outlining key electronics -- smartphones, computers, solar cells, flat-panel TV displays and semiconductor-based storage devices, among others -- would be exempt from the tariffs announced since April 2. That meant those products would not be subject to steep tariffs on Chinese imports, nor the global 10% tariff rate President Donald Trump had imposed.
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Looks like the Turd has already "flip-flopped" on those so-called "exemptions" to his insane tariffs for all those computer and electronic products, cell phones and like electronic products. Yep, it's only a "temporary reprieve" as stated by Howard Nutnick, the Turd's idiotic Commerce Secretary, because, well, the U.S. is going to amazingly be able to "onshore" the maufacturing of all of those highly sophisticated electronic items ("smartphones, computers, solar cells, flat-panel TV displays and semiconductor-based storage devices, among others ..."
which are manufactured in industrial districts in China [which took decades to establish] but will soon be mysteriously now "onshored" and now miraculously manufactured here in the U.S. even with all the attendant new factory construction costs and the successive high labor manufacturing costs to actually manufacture those items in the U.S. The people in this fucked-up Administration are morons!
