The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting a separate set of tariffs on Chinese-made smart phones and other electronics could be announced as soon as today after granting exemptions for them just before the weekend. The Globe's Adrian Morrow writes that back-and-forth over a suite of China's most significant exports to the U.S. has increased the uncertainty around the chaotic rollout of Mr. Trump's on-again-off-again global tariff regime. Late Friday, U.S. Customs quietly posted a notice announcing the exclusion of a long list of consumer technologies and the components used to make them from Mr. Trump's 125-per-cent tariffs on China and 10-per-cent levies on most other countries. The items are still subject to earlier 20-per-cent U.S. tariffs on China. The exemptions, applying to everything from smart phones to laptops to semi-conductors, provide monetary relief to both U.S. consumers and major technology companies such as Apple, Dell and Nvidia, which make products and source components from China. But Mr. Trump on Saturday night hinted it would only be a temporary reprieve. "NOBODY is getting 'off the hook' for the unfair Trade Balances," he wrote on Truth Social.
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