Not any more!! you cannot trust a word that comes out of the shit gibbons mouth hole.
Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs.
Submitted 1 day ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/04/12/tech/trump-electronics-china-tariffs/index.html
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lorski@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Folding like a cheap suit after making duuuuumbfuck decisions.
A true American hero.
The conservative savior.
A cult.
It’s a cult.
uienia@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
At least he made all his billionaire backers a lot of extra money from all of this.
pyre@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
after all his cronies got on TV talking about making iphones in the US … fucking lol.
grte@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You can pause the tariffs but you can’t pause the uncertainty you’ve introduced into the system, Don.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Especially when he has basically admitted that it is stock market manipulation. Everyone knows the tariffs will return or potentially even something stupider.
Bonus@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Somebody got a call from Tim Apple. So much for the clamor to make iPhones in the US. More American jobs vaporized, just like that.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Building iPhones in the US was never going to happen, it would double or triple the price if we did it here.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
It’s not about the price. There just isn’t enough capacity and workers to build that many.
errer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
IllNess@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Why? People probably panic upgraded.
The Trump tariffs are doing as intended, manipulating the market.
Bonus@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Pretty sick of these kinds of doomsdayers rolling over and spreading panic instead of focusing on calling out all the bullshit. Not that that’s even an effective approach. What needs to be repeated over and over is the obvious failures in simple enough terms they can become mantras, slogans, ways of beating the propagandists at their own game. We’re more creative and smarter than them yet we let ourselves lose the propaganda war. Well, not us per se, but legacy media and feckless Democrats.
boonhet@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
I don’t think the general populace was particularly interested in buying 5000 dollar US made smartphones lmao
Bonus@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Nope. Just ludicrous propositions to terrorize everyone on the planet.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Lol. Conservatives don’t care. Libs fucking OWNED. We got fucking OWNED, y’all.
Do you feel it? Does it fucking hurt to be owned by poor people who will now be poorer with less options?
They fucking showed us. And themselves. Fuck yeah!!!
Ignorance is strength!!!
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Now this loophole will make sure everything is a cell phone or computer. Every toy will suddenly have gps a gig of ram and a touch screen. Micromachines are going to be lit.
Litebit@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Even potato chips will identify as micro chips.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
ZeroCool flavored Doritos.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
No. Even a large tariff on a 3$ piece of plastic that retails for 20-30 won’t be worth adding anything.
Mavytan@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
I’m not so sure about that. With tarrifs of over 100%, manufacturers can add over a 100% to the cost of production and still come out ahead… Alternatively they could move production, but that only makes sense to do if it’s cheaper than adding just enough electronics to make the items exempt from tarrifs
Litebit@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You mean Americans are spared from tax on smartphones and computers.
DrCake@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What a pussy. Got a call from Tim Apple and caved immediately.
I feel like the uncertainty is worse for business than the actual tarries at this point
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Tim apple sms’d him a single picture.
Course, the picture was the back of his neck in a sniper scope.
Sometimes pictures speak louder than words.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m starting to think this Trump guy doesn’t know what he’s doing. /s
riodoro1@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
And somehow american gagging only made the Chinese dick grow in it’s mouth.
Art of the fellatio.
Alenalda@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
you dont want to keep your propaganda spreading technologies unaffordable
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
$AAPL stonk go up.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Before Trump announced it publicly. Martha Stewart was jailed for less.
Snowstorm@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
How can we price the stock correctly if we don’t know how much of the profit margin needs to be cut to account for bribes? If Apple shouldered the bribe on its own is this a disadvantage when their competitors gets tariff relief for free? Do they pay every 3 months or every year? Maybe we learn the bribe price on the quarterly conference call? Apple has some kind of leverage against the US government and this isn’t an expense?
I have more questions than a three years old!
maplebar@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Does anyone know what reciprocal means?
Just checking.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
It means China bad America good.
ChristmasApe@discuss.online 1 day ago
Come on China, send a message and slap export duties on them until Trump buckles again.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Just outright embargo the US, period.
ChristmasApe@discuss.online 1 day ago
I like how you think.
4am@lemm.ee 1 day ago
If electronics fall out of favor, it will be harder to profile and track us
cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh, so the two largest line items among Chinese imports.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Xiami/Oppo phones in US for the win.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Today, sure.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
US/Trump blinking continues. If electronics jobs were both desirable and already on a partial progress groove, then surely apparel/toys tariffs are next to be removed, and then only US military electronics will be 145% tariffed, if not blacklisted by China.
Trade deficit with China just substantially increased. US energy, ag, big ticket industrial exports just went to 0.
Is switch 2 a computer?
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
he has to poke all of these holes in his threats, which tells me he’s not bluffing. the end goal is not negotiation, but a huge tariff wall.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The iPhones must flow.
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 day ago
tim cook wrote a check to one of trump businesses, quite probably
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20xn626y81o
exemptions also include other electronic devices and components, including semiconductors, solar cells and memory cards.
Holy fuck on solar cells!!! Huge boost for cost of solar outside of China imported to US, or made in US from Chinese cell supplies.
This can significantly accelerate US solar adoption. If Trump manages to lower interest rates, that is biggest payoff gain for solar/battery projects.
Litebit@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yes it is just a form of “GST/VAT” on goods imported by Americans into US. It is a tax paid for by Americans.
It is cool way to distract people and collect more taxes. By using the phrase “tariff on china” instead of “raising taxes on Americans”.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Trump complains about other nations VAT as a justification for original “reciprocal” tariffs. If US could export any significant manufacturing goods, implementing its own VAT would be a means of taxing consumption while giving exporters a bigger tax break than just manufacturers for domestic consumption.
If everything else deserves exemptions too, a VAT would be the same, and allow funding for more tax cuts for the rich that Trump says will also save America.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what about switch 2
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That can be considered a computer or phone so sounds like it’s exempt.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Based on the CSMS statement elseware in the thread and my limited google-fu, it looks like swicth one was 9504.50, which isn’t on the list of exemptions.
That said, I wouldn’t be too surprised if Nintendo figured out a few tweaks in the feature list that would allow them to claim it as one of the exempted categories.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 day ago
Are they just kind of saying things at this point?
JoshuaBrusque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s almost like they don’t know what they’re doing.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unless it’s just plain old stock market manipulation with a twist.
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah. It’s not almost like that. Nope. It’s exactly that.
This is weaponized incompetence and stupidity.
Snowstorm@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I split this evolving situation according to different scenarios and try to weight their relative probability. What’s the motive, where’s the gain?
A) 80% Some variation of pure incompetence where they tried some shit with whatever aim and weren’t prepared for the hard pushback they got served quickly and decisively. Current events are capitulation, at least for a moment.
B) 15% We are in a Russia-like scenario where this administration needs to govern from fear : population fear deportation and can’t elect another government and fear from the companies that he can crash anything at will without remorse : pay regularly to avoid the destruction of your business model. Mafia protection tax will be lucrative for the few people at the very top.
C) 5% Wider destruction of society with genocide and a new flavour of slavery. Luckily this one is difficult and stoping at a mid point, pivoting to B, is easier. Achieving stability in a “network city” scenario doesn’t seems plausible to me : one small example: try to manufacture stuff to give your ruler class quality healthcare without any scale because war killed so much people… modern stuff is outrageously complicated.