US president exempts host of electronics from tariffs regime; US military allowed \u2018more direct role\u2019 in securing border with Mexico \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday 12 April at a glance<\/p>\n
Big tech has gained a major exemption from Donald Trump\u2019s trade war after the US president exempted smartphones, computers<\/a> and other electronics from the 125% levies imposed on imports from China as well as tariffs imposed on other countries.<\/p>\n Experts had previously warned tariffs would cause electronic consumer prices to spike in the US, with Apple reportedly chartering<\/a> cargo flights to bring in 600 tons of iPhones from India rather than China amid the cratering trade ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US president exempts host of electronics from tariffs regime; US military allowed \u2018more direct role\u2019 in securing border with Mexico \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday 12 April at a glance Big tech has gained a major exemption from Donald Trump\u2019s trade war after the US president exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}