The president of the United States says he is looking to offer relief to car manufacturers as they adjust their supply chains.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has advanced plans to introduce tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceutical products, even when he raised the possibility of a break of his duties in the automotive industry.
In the last burst of commercial advertisements on Monday, the Trump administration launched research on national security implications to import related goods and products, including chip manufacturing equipment and pharmaceutical ingredients.
The probes follow Trump’s comments on the weekend that he would announce the details of the new tariffs on the semiconductors in a matter of days, after his administration exempt the chips and other high -tech products from their “reciprocal” tar “presented on April 2.
Investigations are the latest trade related probes initiated by the US. Under section 232 of the Commercial Expansion Law, which the Trump administration has also used to analyze copper, lumbar, steel and aluminum imports.
The semiconductors are crucial for the manufacture of almost all modern electronic.
The United States depends a lot on the imports of Semiconductors of Asia, especially Taiwan, thought that Trump, as his predecessor Joe Biden, has been pressing companies to make more of the chips nationwide.
In an ad that was acclaimed by the White House as an example of Trump’s commercial policies in Action, the chip giant Nvidia said Monday that he would spend up to $ 500 billion building its super artificial intelligence computers on US soil for the first time.
Trump’s movement towards new tariffs on chips and pharmaceutical products raises the perspective of fresh agitation for companies and financial markets around the world, which have been dragged by the vertiginous announcements of the president of the United States about trade.
After announcing a 90 -day pause in most of its “reciprocal” tariffs against the overflows of commercial partners last week, Trump increased the tariff rate in imports from China to 145 percent.
China, in turn, has slapped US imports with a tariff of 125 percent, while committing to “fight until the end” if Washington continues to increase its commercial war.
Financial markets and companies have been waiting for signs that Trump tariffs will be diluted or withdraw if the administration can extract concessions from their commercial partners.
In an interview with Fox Business on Monday, Kevin Hasett, Trump’s main economic advisor, said the officials were making “surprising” progress in their negotiations with US business partners and received “incredible offers” of more than 10 councils.
Hasset was not specific with which country the United States was advancing.
On Monday, Trump suggested that he could offer car manufacturers a relief of their 25 percent tariffs on vehicles and car parts to give them time to adjust their supply chains.
“I am looking at something to help some of the automobile partners, where they change to pieces that were made in Canada, Mexico and other places, and need a little time, because they are going to do them.
“I am a very flexible person. No change of mind, but I am flexible and you have to be,” Trump added.
American actions, which have been in a roller coaster in the middle of Trump’s rates, increased the highest Monday, with the Benchmark S&P500 and the Nasdaq compound with technology.
Asian markets increased Tuesday morning, with Nikkei 225 from Japan and Kospi from South Korea increased 1.16 percent and 0.67 percent, respectively, axis or 02:00 GMT.
