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Trump exempts electronics, phones, computers from reciprocal tariffs
2025-04-13
[NYPOST] Smartphones, computers and other electronics will be exempt from President Trump's sweeping reciprocal tariffs, the administration announced.

In a break for consumers, the United States will not collect the new duties on about 20 products listed in guidance issued by Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency tasked with collecting tariff revenues.

This list, published late Friday night, also includes routers and semiconductor chips.
Since we no longer produce such things locally and we rely on them so heavily. Expect to see production re-start here too, and in the meantime reliance switch to Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and other "ASEAN Tigers."
Posted by:Fred

#4  .A huge number of toy and hobby items also come out of China

I have great regard for Tamiya Models, though they seem to stick mainly to aviation with some navy, Philippines product. Now, how they get their ingredients, I don't know.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-04-13 20:26  

#3  Unfortunately I only play regular chess, not 5D.
Posted by: European Conservative   2025-04-13 10:45  

#2  It will take a while for old factories to restart. China will leverage Belt and road to cross dock their products. Investors will will be making bets on how long the China tariffs will be in place.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-04-13 10:19  

#1  ...A huge number of toy and hobby items also come out of China - for instance, I build plastic models and several major manufacturers (Trumpeter, Hobby Boss, ModelCollect, VeryFire)come out of there. Their stuff is expensive to begin with and this is going to put a serious crimp in things.

As it turns out, there's not much coming out of there now that I really want, and I get almost everything from IPMS shows anyways. On the other hand, there's only one major manufacturer left here in the states (Atlantis Models) and they specialize in repops of older kits. Will be interesting to see if somebody picks up the opportunity.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2025-04-13 08:11  

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