Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary
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Lutnick said on "This Week" administration's exemptions on electronic devices from tariffs is temporary, with "semiconductor tariffs" likely come in "a month or two."

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the administration’s decision Friday night to exempt a range of electronic devices from tariffs implemented earlier this month was only a temporary reprieve, with the secretary announcing that those items would be subject to “semiconductor tariffs” that will likely come in “a month or two.”

“All those products are going to come under semiconductors, and they’re going to have a special focus type of tariff to make sure that those products get reshored. We need to have semiconductors, we need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels – we need to have these things made in America. We can’t be reliant on Southeast Asia for all of the things that operate for us,” Lutnick told “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl.

  • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    811·
    3 days ago

    Quite sad the amount of downvotes you are getting, it’s like the dem supporters haven’t learned their lesson yet…

    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlEnglish
      42·
      2 days ago

      For people who aren’t American, I can understand it. They rightfully should be mad at us for allowing this to happen.

      For people who are American, they need to start thinking fast about how it is even possible that the Democrats failed in their one job which was to ensure Trump would not win in 2024. It’s long past time to stop thinking about individual voters and start thinking about feckless party leadership. Examining this fully would be like a whole textbook’s worth of words, but I think the one microcosm example that’s really worth interrogating is why Nancy Pelosi pressed the lever in favor of Rep. Cuellar in Texas (the most Republican-voting Democrat in the House in one of the most solidly blue districts) over two-time challenger Jessica Cisneros, who came within a stone’s toss of beating him in a primary.

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
      53·
      2 days ago

      Yeah they’re directly responsible for the path we’ve been on for decades now. They pretend to be an opposition party but are really acting like controlled opposition. This is why even now as people are being illegally sent to El Salvadorian death camps, we get little more from Dems than “concern” and angry letters. Maybe if Harris hadn’t spent so much time courting Dick Cheney’s approval, she wouldn’t have lost.