After Threatening the apple With 25 percent rate If the company did not find a way to transfer the production of iPhone to the United States, Bloomberg Reports This president Donald Trump He wants the tariff to be applied to other telephone manufacturers.
“It will also be Samsung and anyone who makes this product, otherwise it will not be fair,” Trump said at the press conference of the White House after his early True, social post Threatening the new tariff. “Thus, anyone who makes this product, and this will begin, I think, at the end of June.” This means that Samsung, Google and other phone manufacturers selling smartphones in the United States. It is economically impossibleField
While Trump's announcement does not have enough details in how many potentially changing global decisions make it, it corresponds to a wider plan set forth in previous tariff ads. When electronics is like smartphones Initially released From more 125 -percent tariff for goods from ChinaIt is with the promise that they will ultimately be subjected to “semiconductor sector tariffs” at some point in the future. This new 25 percent tariff may be just that.
The Trump administration was focused on the idea of industrial iPhone for several months, but this updated attention is associated with the report that Apple I tried IPhone transition to India To avoid the worst of the world trade war. It seems that this will become even more difficult if Trump does not decide on another pause or again does not change his opinion on tariffs.