×
GreekEnglish

×
  • Politics
  • Diaspora
  • World
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Cooking
Friday
19
Dec 2025
weather symbol
Athens 12°C
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • World
  • Diaspora
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Mediterranean Cooking
  • Weather
Contact follow Protothema:
Powered by Cloudevo
> World

Trump exempts mobile phones, computers and chips from the new tariffs – Breath of fresh air for Apple, Samsung and TSMC

The same list of exemptions includes semiconductor manufacturing machinery, which favours companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which has announced significant investments within the US

Newsroom April 12 07:02


President Donald Trump‘s administration has announced the exemption of mobile phones, computers and other popular electronics from so-called “retaliatory tariffs,” limiting the scope of the new measures and preventing potential price impacts for consumers.

The exemptions, released late Friday night by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as Bloomberg reports, involve tariff increases of 125% for China and 10% for other countries. Thus, no additional tariffs will be imposed on smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors and memory – products that are hardly ever made within the U.S. and whose domestic production would take years to set up.

The same list of exceptions includes semiconductor manufacturing machinery, which favors companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which has announced significant investments within the U.S., and other international microchip makers.

However, the duty exemption may be temporary. The exemptions stem from the White House’s initial order preventing the cumulative imposition of multiple tariffs on certain sectors. This means that these devices may be subject to a different type of tariff in the future, possibly lower – particularly for products of Chinese origin.

>Related articles

Pierrakakis attends G7 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors

Consumer Protection Authority: Despoina Tsangari officially appointed President

Code “Port Arc”: The American plan that is reshaping Greece’s map from north to south

One such case concerns semiconductors, where Trump has previously promised a targeted tariff, but has not yet announced a specific rate. So far, the sectoral tariffs that the Trump administration has implemented have been as high as 25%, although it is unclear whether this will apply to high-tech products. The White House has not made an official statement on the matter.

Ask me anything

Explore related questions

#apple#diplomacy#economy#mobile phones#negotiations#politics#samsung#semiconductors#tariffs#usa#world
> More World

Follow en.protothema.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news

See all the latest News from Greece and the World, the moment they happen, at en.protothema.gr

> Latest Stories

British Museum: Loans of up to 3 years are its new model for antiquities removed from other countries – What it plans to do with the Parthenon Sculptures

December 19, 2025

“Flying” Santas filled the children in the oncology department of Pagni with joy, watch video

December 19, 2025

Embraer’s Eve made the maiden flight of the “flying car,” having received over 3,000 pre-orders

December 19, 2025

In the mountain forests of the Peloponnese, Greek fir trees are dying en masse without being burned

December 19, 2025

Rubio on the Ukraine peace talks: ‘There is progress, but we have a long way to go’

December 19, 2025

Nick Rainer had been diagnosed with schizophrenia weeks before murdering his parents

December 19, 2025

5-month-old baby found dead in Attica: “We woke up and found her cold,” says the mother

December 19, 2025

The Trump administration is preparing to release hundreds of thousands of documents in the Epstein case

December 19, 2025
All News

> World

Embraer’s Eve made the maiden flight of the “flying car,” having received over 3,000 pre-orders

The company aims for certification in 2026 and first deliveries and entry into service in 2027

December 19, 2025

Rubio on the Ukraine peace talks: ‘There is progress, but we have a long way to go’

December 19, 2025

Nick Rainer had been diagnosed with schizophrenia weeks before murdering his parents

December 19, 2025

The Trump administration is preparing to release hundreds of thousands of documents in the Epstein case

December 19, 2025

No more famine in Gaza, but food insecurity remains, says UN

December 19, 2025
Homepage
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY COOKIES POLICY TERM OF USE
Powered by Cloudevo
Copyright © 2025 Πρώτο Θέμα