Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other Trump administration officials continued to defend Donald Trump’s tariff regime Sunday as the nation braces for another week of volatility and the potential of further U-turns by the president - including on a recent electronics exemption.
Lutnick appeared on ABC’s This Week and explained the newest wrinkle to the White House’s trade strategy: the revelation this weekend that the US tech sector would be spared the brunt of Trump’s tariffs, at least for now. Smartphones, flat-panel TVs, semiconductor storage devices and other parts including solar cells would all be exempt from tariffs — both Trump’s escalating “reciprocal” tariffs on China specifically as well as his across-the-board tariffs of 10 percent on all US imports.
