We learned yesterday that this year’s iPhones will escape the latest of US president Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports for the first two months or so of sales. The US government announced that the new tariff has been deferred until December for certain product categories, including cellphones.
However, while iPads and MacBooks also benefited from the delayed introduction, the 10% tariff will still kick in for a number of other Apple products on September 1…
Bloomberg worked its way through the lengthy list to figure out which Apple products would and wouldn’t gain a temporary reprieve.
There doesn’t appear to be much obvious rhyme or reason to the list, which begins with “Frozen Alaska pollack fillets” and ends with “other sanitary garments,” so it seems likely the White House backed down on products where it was lobbied hard.
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