Donald Trump follows the tariff imposition strategy and now they touch the chips and semiconductors. Although the current White House tenant is deeply unpredictable and has not yet announced its final policy in this regard, the mention of tariffs of “Approximately 100%” Put the hairs as scarp to the technology industry.
The United States maintains its commercial war based on imposing tariffs on half the world and all kinds of products and services. The relative to semiconductors is still pending. If in previous ads Trump spoke of 25% of tariffs on the manufacture of foreign chips, which joined the 10% general tariff for all types of imported products, now the bet goes further: “To all chips and semiconductors that enter the United States will be applied a 100%tariff”.
100% tariffs, except for manufacturing in the USA
Trump’s statements have been made in the joint announcement of Apple investment increase that the president made with Tim Cook and that he will add 100,000 million dollars in national projects.
Trump took the decision of the firm of Cupertino (obliged to avoid the increase in iPhone costs manufactured abroad) for insist on your policy: “If you are building in the United States of America, there will be no charge” And those who have “Committed to building” They will not face tariffs.
Apple’s additional compromise of the additional commitment will be a new project called PAmerican manufacturing roll. According to the press release, Apple will invest additional figures to increase its national manufacturing commitments in various addresses, in addition to what you have done so far. “We are proud to increase our investments in the United States to 600,000 million dollars in four years”said Tim Cook.
The commitment will mainly finance new facilities in Texas and Arizona for the construction of IA, respectively. Apple also said that it plans to intensify research and development at the national level as part of said agreement. He also announced the opening of a manufacturing academy in Detroit, in collaboration with the Michigan State University, where it trains small and medium -sized companies in intelligent manufacturing.
The manufacture of iPhonesTrump’s battle horse is not included in the commitment for obvious reasons. American manufacturers of Intel and Micron chips have already announced new plants in the US, as well as the TSMC and South Korean Samsung. But many others are missing, which manufacture components and assemble Apple’s mobiles.
In this sense, Trump did not explain what will happen if a chips manufacturer invests in American manufacturing capacity, but still imports other products from abroad. Another omission in the president’s statements was the treatment for the products that incorporate Multiple origins semiconductorsan important consideration, since the main components use multiple matrices from different countries. Again, Trump’s tariffs leave the semiconductor industry waiting to know their destiny.
