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Trump Planning Semiconductor Tariffs That Will Impact Apple, No One 'Getting Off the Hook'
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(An actual quote from the very stable genius.)
Probably should throw child labor in there too
Apple will not be exempt from tariffs after all, with U.S. President Donald Trump working on new semiconductor levies that will likely impact Apple devices, chips from companies like Nvidia, and other electronics.
Over the weekend, the U.S. Customers and Border Protection agency shared a long list of electronic devices excluded from the current tariffs, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, the Apple Watch, and more. Apple scored a reprieve from the 145 percent tariff impacting goods imported from China and the 10 percent tariff on goods imported from other countries, but it doesn't sound like it's going to last.
On his Truth Social network, Trump said that no one is "getting off the hook" and there "was no tariff exception." Apple and other tech companies are "just moving to a different tariff bucket," with the 20 percent "Fentanyl Tariffs" still in place, and additional tariffs coming.
Trump said that his administration will be "taking a look" at semiconductors and the electronics supply chain in the National Security Tariff Investigations. He also reiterated that "we need to make products in the United States." Trump is expected to announce some kind of semiconductor tariff in the coming days.
Trump has suggested that Apple could manufacture the iPhone and other products in the United States, but even if such a move were not wildly expensive, Apple would not be able to find enough people with the necessary skillset to assemble devices in the quantities needed. U.S. manufacturing would also drive the cost of the iPhone up significantly.
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Article Link: Trump Planning Semiconductor Tariffs That Will Impact Apple, No One 'Getting Off the Hook'
No no, $500 B means “off the hook”
It's just him being himself
Guys like that, you have to yell at them to make them stop. They don't know they're being bad.
Let's see how far he goes....
Guys like that, you have to yell at them to make them stop. They don't know they're being bad.
Let's see how far he goes....
You mean the child labor they’re trying to bring back in Florida, where fourteen year old kids get to work the graveyard shift?
So Trump is planning another pump & dump raid and pillage party in the stock market for him and his billionaire cronies.
Trump in the White House is like watching those 1980s TV shows where people would win 2 minute free shopping sprees, running around department stores grabbing as much as they possibly could. Only this time 2 minutes is 4 years and the department stores are the pension funds of the American people.
Trump in the White House is like watching those 1980s TV shows where people would win 2 minute free shopping sprees, running around department stores grabbing as much as they possibly could. Only this time 2 minutes is 4 years and the department stores are the pension funds of the American people.
THIS IS INSIDER TRADING PURE AND SIMPLE. He will without blinking an eye tank the global economy and put everyone out of buisness and into the poor house pure and simple if it means him making a buck!
He's doing this all on purpose to manipulate the stock market; let's be real here...
I was willing to go along with the plan. But the flip flop decisioning with no reason is not acceptable. Maybe we need to go back to a government that does what the people want.
…and even more importantly, one that will obey the Constitution.
Hey you know what markets love? Instability. They just eat that up.
Why would they do that when they're in favor of abusive child labor laws. It's like they're getting ideas from China.
Legislation to loosen child labor laws was written by DeSantis’ office, records show
DeSantis’ involvement in writing the bill was not previously known.
www.miamiherald.com
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office proposed major rollbacks to the state’s child labor laws earlier this year, saying changes made last year to loosen working restrictions for minors “did not go far enough,” records show.
The governor’s office crafted this year’s legislation, which would allow teenagers to work overnight hours on school nights and long shifts without a meal break. The office emailed the proposal and talking points in February to Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, and Rep. Monique Miller, R-Palm Bay, according to emails released by the Florida Senate. The records were first reported by the Orlando Weekly.
Collins and Miller are sponsoring bills largely using the governor’s office language.
A few weeks after DeSantis’ office sent the draft bill, the governor said during a panel discussion with the Trump administration’s border czar that a younger workforce could be part of the solution to replacing “dirt cheap” labor from migrants in the country illegally.
The governor’s proposal would remove all regulations on how late and how long 16- and 17-year-olds can work. It would also remove their guarantee of a meal break and would waive time restrictions on 14- and 15-year-olds if those teenagers are homeschooled or attend virtual school.
The conservative group Foundation for Government Accountability worked behind the scenes last year to promote the child labor bill. The group has also been involved in the push to loosen child labor restrictions in other states.
I hope we won't be getting a "somehow, Trump has returned" in 35 years.
so the drama continues ... temper tantrum # 63 though I m ight have lost count of those
No one is getting off the hook, especially not U.S. customers.
Small businesses are the ones that are going to be impacted the most. They can't pass it on or absorb it; their only option is going under if this mess isn't resolved.
The current Congress won't. They are too scared to defy him. All we can hope for is that more people come to their senses and vote Dem at the next congressional elections on November 3rd 2026. Until then, IT'S CHAOS!
There is no massive shortage of skilled workers in the USA.
I work in semiconductors in the USA. We are able to find skilled workers as long as we offer better compensation than the food trucks down down the road.
Given how much of the actual manufacturing is automated these days, it isn't like workers are pressing chips into sockets by hand. This stuff is surface mounted, and I have worked in those facilities, too. Training people to run tools like that is well within the realm of realistic for decent workers. You do not have to be a MIT graduate who narrowly missed out on a Nobel Prize to run a solder wave machine or chemical vapor deposition tool.
Apple surely prefers paying skilled workers $2.90/hour (via Foxconn), which they cannot do in the US, but there are skilled workers in this country. Since labor cost isn't the issue, according to Tim Cook (if you believe him), there shouldn't a cost barrier to manufacturing in this country. I get how it is hard to advocate for a $20/hour minimum wage while at the same time not paying your workers that, but that kind of is the square Apple is on.
Trump further said that in order to promote good stability for US business he won't say how much tariff will apply to electronics, when they will start nor what would be needed exactly to remove those tariffs. It's thought that keeping people guessing should help US businesses thrive.
"This isn't what I voted for!" cries out another MAGA voter who put in place an ultra-conservative Congress and SCOTUS that won't lift a finger to stop him.
Trump is such an idiot, his tariff plan isn't even half baked. He is still out looking and shopping for ingredients in spite of having no recipe to work towards.
Trump’s daily ramblings are the signs of a confused old man who doesn’t remember what he said yesterday.
Which means congress could end this in a heartbeat, but the GOP has decided their entire role in congress is to lick trump’s boots and rubber stamp his actions, so here we are
I STRONGLY SUGGEST you read this post on 9to5 as far as experts in the industry and their take on Apple bringing Apple Product manufacturing back to the USA.
Former Apple engineer on why iPhones cannot be made in the US - 9to5Mac
Trump’s rationale for his threatened tariffs is to force companies to manufacture in the US. He’s cited the example of...
9to5mac.com
Then come back and refute these experts!