US tariffs on electronics and medicines to be introduced by June at the latest
After the suspension is before new tariffs: By June 2025, the USA wants to impose new duties on semiconductors and medicines, among other things.
US Secretary of Commerce Lutnick announces new tariffs in an interview.
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Just last Friday, US President Donald Trump suspended the increased tariffs on imports into the USA for a number of electronic products for 90 days. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has now confirmed in an interview that this is only a temporary measure. It will be replaced by new tariffs for individual product groups.
"We need medicines, semiconductors and electronics that are made in the US," said Lutnick on the ABC television program "This Week". He added: "In these two areas, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors, new tariffs are coming in a month or two." These levies could also "not be negotiated away by countries." These are products that affect national security and therefore have to be manufactured in the USA.
This has not changed the fundamental goal of relocating the production of previously highly globalized goods to the USA. Electronic products in particular were severely affected by the tariffs, which were recently set to amount to 145% for China, for example. Both the components required for smartphones and notebooks are almost exclusively manufactured in Asia, and the devices are also predominantly assembled there.
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As a consequence of the tariff threats, Apple, for example, imported around 600 tons of iPhones from India at short notice, according to media reports, probably because this country was only to be subject to a 26% tariff. Numerous notebook manufacturers such as Acer, Asus, Dell, Framework, HP, Lenovo and Razer had temporarily suspended their imports to the USA altogether. Market researchers at IDC assume that the customs chaos will affect the growth of the global PC market for the whole of 2025.
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