Trump, confusion of fuel tariffs with best helpers by questioning reciprocal releases

President Donald Trump And his best trading employees on Sunday added the confusion about his administration’s tariff plans, including the newly announced Exceptions For reciprocal electronic products such as phones, computers and semiconductorsS

Trump and his assistants suggested exceptions – which deleted added tariffs of 145% on Many Chinese devices and components of electronics – It would be partially or completely reversed in the coming weeks. A separate 20% tariff for all Chinese goods is still in force.

The exceptions were first discovered in technical directions issued late Friday night without fanfare by US customs and border defense in the USand confirmed by The White House On Saturday.

But Trump on Sunday afternoon raised the duration of exceptions that are regarded as a grace for technology companies, including Applethat makes iPhone And most of his other products in China.

“Nobody receives” from the hook “for unfair trade balances and barriers that are not cash tariffs that other countries have used against us, especially not China, which so far refer to us the most!” Trump wrote In social media publication.

“There was no exception to the tariffs,” announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% ​​fentanyl tariffs and they just move to another tariff of bucket, Trump said. “False news knows this, but refuses to report it. We are looking at semiconductors and the entire electronics supply chain in upcoming national security rates investigations.”

Earlier on Sunday Secretary of Trade Howard Luni The exceptions are offered temporary and said that separate rates for electronic products “soon come”.

“They are released from reciprocal tariffs but are included in semiconductor rates, Which is probably coming for a month or two, “said Lunis to” This Week “this week.”

“So it’s not like a constant type of release. (Trump) just clarifies that they are not available to be agreed by the parties,” he said.

Lutnik added, “These are things that are national security that we must be in America.”

Lutnick’s comments and Trump’s social media cast cold water with hopes that popular technological products made in China, such as computers, laptops, smartphones and flat panel TVs, will be spared from 145% reciprocal Trump-lengths, which increase the prices of US importers.

They also add more uncertainty about Trump’s tariff policy, which has changed many times since they took office. Democratic MPs on Sunday said the changes caused “chaos” and a crisis of credibility for Trump.

US Trade representative Jamison Greer in an attempt to clarify why the exceptions were made on Sunday that they “are not really an exception”, although the executive order that Trump signed on exceptions is partly entitled “Exceptions.”

“What happened is that this type of supply chain has moved from the global tariff rate, the reciprocal tariff, and it has moved to the national security rate regime,” Greer told CBS News.

The reciprocal tariff exception initially sighed relief for large technology companies, including Apple and chip mars like NvidiaS

But democratic Senator Corey Booker New Jersey said, 90-day pause When imposing new tariffs for other countries – is harmful to the US

“President Trump now has a crisis in authenticity,” he said in an interview on NBC News “Meet the Press.” “We hear from all over the world. People just don’t know if they can trust him.”

Senator Elizabeth WarrenD-Mass.

“Investors will not invest in the United States when Donald Trump plays red light, green light with tariffs.”