The Trump administration has taken steps on Monday, which is likely to lead to a new tariff on semiconductor and pharmaceutical products, adding that the Trump headquarters head put imports worldwide.
Federal notifications on the Internet said on the afternoon of Monday afternoon that the administration started national security investigations into pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical imports. Mr. Trump suggested that these investigations could lead to definitions.
Investigations will also cover the machines used to make semiconductors and products that contain pharmaceutical chips and components.
In a statement confirming this step, Kush Disai, a White House spokesman, said that the president “has been a long time ago about the importance of re -manufacturing that is necessary for national and economic security in our country.”
The semiconductor tariffs and new pharmaceutical preparations will be issued under Article 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Law, which allows the president to impose a customs tariff to protect US national security.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump hinted that he would quickly impose a new tariff on semiconductor and pharmaceutical preparations, as he was looking to increase local production.
“The higher the tariff, the faster,” Mr. Trump told reporters in his appearance at the White House, citing the import tax imposed on steel, aluminum and cars.
Semi -conductors are used to operate electronics, cars, games and other commodities. The United States relies heavily on imported chips from Taiwan and other places in Asia, the dependence that Democrats and Republicans alike described as a great danger to national security.
As for the drugs, Mr. Trump has argued that many vital medications have been imported. He said: “We no longer make our drugs.”
Some medications are produced at least in the United States, although China, Ireland and India are important sources of some types of drugs.
On Monday, Mr. Trump also indicated that some companies could provide comfort from the customs tariff, as he did for electronics imports in recent days – a break from his previous insistence that he will not save the entire industries.
“He looks at something to help some car companies, as they turn into spare parts made in Canada, Mexico and other places,” the president said. He added, “They need a little time because they have to make them here.” General Motors, Ford Motor and Stelantis jumped after his comments.
“I am a very flexible person. I don’t change my opinion, but I am flexible,” said Mr. Trump on Monday when asked about possible exemptions. He added that he spoke to the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, and “Help” recently.
The President announced major changes over the past week on his commercial agenda, which led to the spread of markets and the effects of the business he tries to persuade to invest in the United States.
Mr. Trump announced a “mutual” global tariff program on April 2, including the major fees for countries that make many electronics, such as Vietnam. But after the turmoil in the bond market, the global tariff for 90 days has been temporarily stopped, so that his government can conduct trade negotiations with other countries.
These import taxes came in addition to the other definitions that Mr. Trump put on a variety of sectors and countries, including a 10 percent tariff on all American imports; 25 percent tariffs on steel, aluminum and cars; A 25 percent tariff for many goods from Canada and Mexico. In all, the movements increased from the American definitions to levels that were not seen more than a century ago.
Amid a dispute with China, Mr. Trump raised a tariff on Chinese imports last week to at least 145 percent, before exempting smartphones, laptops, televisions and other electronics on Friday. These goods constitute about a quarter of American imports from China.
The administration argued that this step was simply “clarifying”, saying that these electronics would be included in the scope of national security on the chips.
However, the executives and analysts in the industry asked whether the real motive for the administration may be to avoid a violent reaction linked to a sharp increase in the prices of many consumer electronics – or to help technology companies, such as Apple, which arrived at the White House in recent days for the burning that the definitions will harm them.
Mr. Trump has already used the legal authority under Article 232 to issue a tariff on imported steel, aluminum and cars. The administration also uses the authority to conduct investigations into wood and copper imports.
The notifications said on Monday that the administration had started its investigations into drug imports and semi -conductors on April 1. The White House nor the president previously said that the operation had started officially.
Kevin Haysit, director of the National Economic Council of the White House, told reporters on Monday that the tariff of chips was necessary for national security.
He said: “The example that I like to use is, if you have a cannon, but you get artillery balls from a discount, then if there is a kind of procedure, you may run out of artillery balls.” “Thus you can put a tariff on artillery balls.”
Mr. Trump has argued that the definitions of chips will force companies to transfer their factories to the United States.
Some technology companies responded to the president’s requests to build more in the United States. The semiconductor manufacturer in Taiwan, the largest chips manufacturer in the world, announced in the White House in March that it will spend $ 100 billion in the United States over the next four years to expand its productive capacity.
apple Declare It will spend $ 500 billion in the United States over the next four years to expand facilities throughout the country.
On Monday, NVIDIA, the chips maker, announced that it will produce giant computers for fully artificial intelligence in the United States. In the next four years, the company said, it will produce up to $ 500 billion of Amnesty International Infrastructure in the United States in partnership with TSMC and other companies.
“The infrastructure of Amnesty International in the world is built for the first time,” Nvidia, CEO of NVIDIA, said in a statement.
The White House started from the news in a declaration due to the president.
The statement said: “It is Trump’s influence on work,” adding: “The buckle of these industries is useful for the American worker, and it is good for the American economy and good for American national security – and the best has not yet come.”
However, some critics have asked about the amount of definitions that will really help it in strengthening the United States industry, given that the Trump administration is also threatening to retreat from the grants offered to the chips factories by the Biden administration. Foreign governments such as China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all support the manufacture of semiconductors in a large way with tools such as grants and tax tariffs.
On the global level, 105 new chips, or FABS, was appointed online until 2028, according to the data collected by Semi, an association for international connectors suppliers. Fifteen of these were planned for the United States, while the largest part of Asia was planned.
Mr. Trump criticized the chips law, a program worth $ 50 billion, created under the Biden Administration and aims to provide incentives for the manufacture of chips in the United States. The grants were given a waste of money and insisted that the definitions alone are sufficient to encourage the production of local chips.
“If it is used intelligently, as part of a broader strategy to stimulate the making of American chips that include local manufacturing and purchasing preferential tax credits, as well as smart ways to reduce the next Tsunami of Chinese forgery,” said Jimmy Godrich, the Rand -Senior Technology Analysis Corporation, said.
He added: “However, the United States on its own represents only about a quarter of global demand for goods that contain chips, so working with allied nations is very important.”
Administration officials have suggested that the chips tariffs can be applied to semiconductors that come to the United States within other devices. Most of the chips are not imported directly – instead, they are assembled in electronics, games and car parts in Asia or Mexico before shipping them to the United States.
The United States has no system to apply definitions to covered chips within other products, but the US Trade Representative Office is looking into this question during the Biden administration. CEOs in the chips industry says this system will be difficult to establish, but it is possible.
Rebecca Robbins She contributed to the reports from Seattle.