His government Donald Trump announced the exclusion of mobile phones, computers, laptops, chips and other electronic species from ‘payrolls duties“, Limiting the range of new measures and preventing possible increases for consumers.
Exceptions, published on Friday night (11/04/2025) by US Customs and Border Protection Service, limit the scope of contributions excluding Products from Trump’s duty to China and Basic 10% global duty in almost all other countries.
So, No additional tariffs on smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors and memories will be imposed – products which They are hardly manufactured at all in the US and domestic production would take several years to create
In the same list are included semiconductor manufacturing machineryN, which favors companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which has announces significant investments in the USbut also other international microchip manufacturers.
However, this exemption for duties is expected to be temporary as these exceptions come after the White House’s initial order not to impose multiple duties in some areas.
It means that These devices are not excluded in the future to other types of dutiesprobably lower and especially for products from China.
Regarding semiconductors, Trump had previously spoken of the targeted duty, but has not announced so far.
At the moment, the Trump government’s sectoral duties reach 25%, and it is not clear whether this price will also apply to high -tech products.