In the last confusing touch of the tariff saga, President Trump said on Sunday that the exemption announced on Friday for imported electronics did not exist.
In a long social post of Social Truth (via HuffPost), the president insisted that “no one launches” out of the hook “and” there was no “exception” price announced on Friday “. It is confusing because customs and the protection of American borders absolutely published a list of exempt products that day.
There is a justification for Trump for having denied exemptions that “these products are subject to existing prices at 20% fentanyl, and they simply move to a different” bucket “rate. The false news know it, but refuses to report it. »»
However, the claim made by the media this weekend was no more or less than the simple and factual declaration that a wide range of electronics, including almost all Apple products, was exempt from the last series of reciprocal rates. igamesnews noted at the time that the so-called “fentanyl” rates seemed to remain in force, but that does not change the fact that official sources had indicated that other much larger tariffs of 125% on China imports were no longer applied.
We have also noted that all the exemptions may well be temporary and that the whole saga has been unpredictable. If the White House intends to apply a “bucket” different from rates to electronics imported in the future, this does not contradict or also refute the overall media coverage of exemptions. And the government has made no indication in its announcement of the reciprocal tariff exclusion.
igamesnews takes no pleasure in contradicting the president in this way and would be happy to never cover the prices again. Unfortunately, because Apple manufactures so many iphones in China, prices must have an impact on company customers by price increases. We will continue to note the future changes in the policy and their probable effect on Apple's operations.
