{"id":21878,"date":"2025-04-13T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21878"},"modified":"2025-04-13T15:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:16:56","slug":"u-s-tariff-exemptions-for-electronics-are-temporary-says-commerce-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21878","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Tariff Exemptions for Electronics Are \u2018Temporary,\u2019 Says Commerce Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s exemption on tariffs for electronics may be short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the White House\u2019s decision to exempt items like smartphones, computers, and other consumer electronics from steep tariffs earlier this month was only temporary.<\/p>\n<p>A new set of duties focused on semiconductors is expected within \u201ca month or two,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll those products are going to come under semiconductors, and they&#8217;re going to have a special focus type of tariff to make sure that those products get reshored,\u201d Lutnick said during an<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/commerce-secretary-lutnick-tariff-exemptions-electronics-temporary\/story?id=120752319\" target=\"_blank\"> interview on ABC\u2019s This Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, he added, is to encourage chip and flat panel production in the U.S. and reduce dependence on Asian manufacturing. The clarification follows a bulletin from U.S. Customs and Border Protection released late Friday bringing a temporary exemption for a range of key electronics from the reciprocal tariffs President Donald Trump announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lutnick emphasized that those same items would soon be swept up under a more targeted policy aimed at \u201cnational security\u201d industries like semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels \u2014 we need to have these things made in America,\u201d Lutnick said.<\/p>\n<p>The price of bitcoin dropped roughly 1% on headlines reporting on Lutnick\u2019s words, before recovering back to the $84,000 mark. The wider crypto market, measured by the CoinDesk 20 (<a href=\"https:\/\/todayincrypto.coindesk.com\/cd20\" target=\"_blank\">CD20<\/a>) index, is down roughly 1.6% in the last 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s exemption on tariffs for electronics may be short-lived. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the White House\u2019s decision to exempt items like smartphones, computers, and other consumer electronics from steep tariffs earlier this month was only temporary. A new set of duties focused on semiconductors is expected within \u201ca month or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-21878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}