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Title: Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on all smartphones not made in the
US

Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 19:51:22 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/t...

After threatening Apple with a 25 percent tariff unless the company found a
way to move iPhone production to the US, Bloomberg reports that President
Donald Trump wants the tariff applied to other phone makers, too.

"It would be also Samsung and anybody that makes that product, otherwise it
wouldnΓÇÖt be fair," Trump said in a White House press conference following
his earlier Truth Social post threatening the new tariff. "So anybody that
makes that product, and thatΓÇÖll start on, I guess, the end of June." That
means Samsung, Google, and other phone makers selling smartphones in the US
would also need to find a way to move production state-side, something most
experts says is economically unfeasible.

While Trump's announcement lacks detail in the way many of his potentially
world-altering decisions do, it does fit with the larger plan outlined in
earlier tariff announcements. When electronics like smartphones were
initially exempted from the larger 125 percent tariff on goods from China, it
was with the promise that they would eventually be subjected to
"semiconductor sectoral tariffs" at some point in the future. This new 25
percent tariff could be just that.

The Trump administration has been focused on the idea of a US-manufactured
iPhone for months now, but this renewed attention stems from reporting that
Apple has been trying to transition iPhone manufacturing to India to avoid
the worst of the global trade war. That seems like its going to get even
trickier unless Trump decides on another pause or changes his mind on tariffs
yet again.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/t...
tariff-on-all-smartphones-not-made-in-the-us-195122531.html?src=rss

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