Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on all smartphones not made in the US
After threatening Apple with a 25 percent tariff unless the company found a way to move iPhone production to the US, Bloomberg reports that President Donald Trump wants the tariff applied to other phone makers, too.
"It would be also Samsung and anybody that makes that product, otherwise it wouldn’t be fair," Trump said in a White House press conference following his earlier Truth Social post threatening the new tariff. "So anybody that makes that product, and that’ll start on, I guess, the end of June." That means Samsung, Google, and other phone makers selling smartphones in the US would also need to find a way to move production state-side, something most experts says is economically unfeasible.
While Trump's announcement lacks detail in the way many of his potentially world-altering decisions do, it does fit with the larger plan outlined in earlier tariff announcements. When electronics like smartphones were initially exempted from the larger 125 percent tariff on goods from China, it was with the promise that they would eventually be subjected to "semiconductor sectoral tariffs" at some point in the future. This new 25 percent tariff could be just that.
The Trump administration has been focused on the idea of a US-manufactured iPhone for months now, but this renewed attention stems from reporting that Apple has been trying to transition iPhone manufacturing to India to avoid the worst of the global trade war. That seems like its going to get even trickier unless Trump decides on another pause or changes his mind on tariffs yet again.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/trump-threatens-a-25-percent-tariff-on-all-smartphones-not-made-in-the-us-195122531.html?src=rss
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