U.S. Tariff Exemptions for Electronics Are ‘Temporary,’ Says Commerce Secretary
The Trump administration’s exemption on tariffs for electronics may be short-lived.
Commerce Secretary
A new set of duties focused on semiconductors is expected within “a month or two,” he said.
“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,” Lutnick said during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
The goal, he added, is to encourage chip and flat panel production in the U.S. and reduce dependence on Asian manufacturing. The clarification follows a bulletin from
However, Lutnick emphasized that those same items would soon be swept up under a more targeted policy aimed at “national security” industries like semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.
“We need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels — we need to have these things made in America,” Lutnick said.
The price of bitcoin dropped roughly 1% on headlines reporting on Lutnick’s words, before recovering back to the

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