After the Trump administration announced tariff exemptions on key technology products, the White House is promoting investments that global technological companies have pledged to make in the United States.
“President Trump has made it clear that the United States cannot trust China to manufacture critical technologies such as semiconductors, chips, smartphones and laptops,” said White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, in a statement to ABC News.
Leavitt said that technological companies such as Apple and Nvidia are making more investments in the United States
“In the president’s direction, these companies rush to establish their manufacture in the United States as soon as possible,” he said, without providing more details.
A White House official told ABC News that the president said that cars, steel, pharmaceutical products, chips and other specific materials will be included in specific rates.
This means that relief for certain sectors of technology could be of short duration.
President Donald Trump addresses the Air Force one before the joint base of Andrews in Maryland, on April 11, 2025.
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Other tariffs also apply to smartphones, laptops and other electronics announced in the exemption, since it only exempts those products from the most recent Trump rates. The administration had previously imposed 20% of farefare rates in February.
-ABC News’ Selina Wang
