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Smartphone tariffs are coming back in ‘a month or two,’ says Trump admin

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl on This Week that smartphones, laptops, and other devices exempt from Trump ’s April 9th tariffs will be lumped in with duties on semiconductors in “a month or two ,” he said.

The goal is to “encourage them to reshore, to be built in America ”.

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