The President Trump has assuredduring a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, that will impose a minimum 25% tariffs on semiconductors imported to the United States. For now, according to Tom’s Hardware, it is unknown when they will take effect, although Trump has indicated that they will start at 25% and will be remarkable during the year after their entry into force.
Of course, he also commented that he will give time for semiconductor -manufacturing companies to build factories in the United States to get rid of tariffs before imposing them. Building chip factories in the United States and preparing them to enter operation leads, on average, 38 months today. Therefore, these tariffs can still be somewhat far.
Of course, TSMC apparently has already launched plans to accelerate the construction of the plant that is raising in Arizona and trying to minimize the impact of tariffs. They would also be valuing to keep the Intel chips manufacturing division.
With this step it can take in the future, the US government wants to reduce the dependence of the import chips country, and focus on its local production. At present, the factories that develop the most advanced chips are in Taiwan, and there is no plant in the United States that can develop semiconductors similar to them.
In any case, these tariffs will have a quite remarkable impact on the pockets of the Americans, who will be sure that ending up supporting Price increases for increasingly types of products. And not necessarily all import, since those who manufacture products at home but import components sure they will also have to withstand tariffs, and will end up taking more expensive when they go on sale.
In view of the tariffs that can soon go into force, and due to the uncertainty that US authorities are creating in the market, There are manufacturers that are already considering raising the prices of their products for the United States. Acer, directly, has already confirmed that as of March it will raise them in the country 10% and their local CEO, Jason Chen, there will be manufacturers who decide to raise their prices even more.
