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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6103356" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/13/tariffs-chips-lutnick/[/URL]<h3>Tariffs on chips, phones, laptops still coming, commerce secretary warns</h3>Trump officials adjusted their position a little more than one day after the White House announced an exemption from “reciprocal” tariffs for semiconductors and tech products.&quot;U.S. levies on semiconductor chips — which the White House <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/12/trump-tariff-exemptions-smartphones-computers/" target="_blank">exempted </a>late Friday from a slew of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/09/tariffs-stocks-bonds-markets/" target="_blank">“reciprocal” tariffs</a> — are in fact still the works, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other top Trump administration officials asserted Sunday.Lutnick said tariffs on semiconductors will be decided through an industry-specific tariff model and imposed via Section 232, which governs national security-related tariffs and requires a lengthy process for study and comment.The Trump administration has previously cited 232 as a potential avenue for semiconductor tariffs. But the latest messaging twist could cause further whiplash for the tech sector, which had breathed a sigh of relief after the tech exemption was announced, hoping that semiconductors might remain somewhat unscathed from Trump’s trade war.&quot;[ATTACH=full]517153[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6103356, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/13/tariffs-chips-lutnick/[/URL] [HEADING=2]Tariffs on chips, phones, laptops still coming, commerce secretary warns[/HEADING] [I]Trump officials adjusted their position a little more than one day after the White House announced an exemption from “reciprocal” tariffs for semiconductors and tech products.[/I] "U.S. levies on semiconductor chips — which the White House [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/12/trump-tariff-exemptions-smartphones-computers/']exempted [/URL]late Friday from a slew of [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/09/tariffs-stocks-bonds-markets/']“reciprocal” tariffs[/URL] — are in fact still the works, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other top Trump administration officials asserted Sunday. Lutnick said tariffs on semiconductors will be decided through an industry-specific tariff model and imposed via Section 232, which governs national security-related tariffs and requires a lengthy process for study and comment. The Trump administration has previously cited 232 as a potential avenue for semiconductor tariffs. But the latest messaging twist could cause further whiplash for the tech sector, which had breathed a sigh of relief after the tech exemption was announced, hoping that semiconductors might remain somewhat unscathed from Trump’s trade war." [ATTACH type="full" width="671px" alt="tgad.png"]517153[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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