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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Helen Davidson and agencies

Trump warns exemptions on smartphones, electronics will be short-lived, promises future tariffs

US President Donald Trump arrives at a UFC event in Miami, Florida.
The Trump administration issued a rule late on Friday that spared smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other electronics from some of the tariffs they have enacted on China. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The exemption of smartphones, laptops and other electronic products from import tariffs on China will be short-lived, top US officials have said, with Donald Trump warning that no one was “getting off the hook.”

“There was no Tariff ‘exception’, Trump said in a social media post on Sunday. “These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket.’”

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