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Trade & Tariffs Partial Unannounced
Smartphones, computers and chips quietly exempted from China tariffs
Electronics carve-out from 145% China tariff
Original action
Imposed tariffs reaching 145% on imports from China, which covered consumer electronics including smartphones, laptops, and semiconductors.
- White House / U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Reversal
CBP guidance issued late on a Friday exempted smartphones, laptops, monitors, hard drives, memory chips, semiconductors and other electronics from the reciprocal tariffs, retroactive to April 5.
- Mechanism: administrative-action
Notes
Issued via quiet CBP guidance late Friday with no public announcement; officials then said semiconductor-specific tariffs would follow, making the exemption explicitly temporary.