Local time on the 13th, U.S. Commerce Secretary Raimonde accepted an interview with the program "This Week" of ABC and said that the Trump administration's tariff exemption for products such as mobile phones and computers was only "temporary". Raimonde also said that these products would soon be included in the so-called "semiconductor tariff", which is expected to be implemented within "one or two months".
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Raimonde Video Screenshot
Previously, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) quietly modified the tariff rules late at night on the 11th, exempting about 20 types of products including smartphones, computers, memory chips, and some semiconductor manufacturing equipment from import tariffs, unaffected by the previously announced so-called "reciprocal tariff", and without specifying the country.
Regarding this, Raimonde said in the program, "All these products will be classified under the semiconductor category, subject to a special key tariff to ensure that these products are brought back. We need semiconductors, we need chips, we need tablets - we need these things manufactured in the United States."
Raimonde added, "(President Trump's) approach is to exempt these products from the 'reciprocal tariff', but they will be included in the semiconductor tariff, which will be implemented in about one or two months."
Raimonde also said, "We cannot be dependent on foreign countries to provide us with the basic products we need. So this is not a permanent exemption."
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