4/14/2025–|Last update: 4/14/202509:32 AM (Mecca time)
Donald Trump has excluded smartphones, laptops and other consumer electronic devices from its “reciprocal” customs duties, but 46 out of 50 commodities the United States depends on China to provide it is still subject to fees.
The analysis of goods with a total value of one billion dollars shows the potential impact of new procedures on American consumers, according to the Financial Times in today’s report.
High prices
More than 3 -quarters of video game devices, food processing devices, and electric fans imported by the United States last year in China, and will face anyone who wants to buy children’s games as well as a rise in prices. China has made 75% of dolls, trio wheels, motorcycles, and other wheel games sold to American consumers from abroad last year.
Mattel, the Barbie doll, warned that it may raise its prices in the United States to make up for the impact of the fees, and that was before Trump’s last escalation in the mutual customs duties war.
The California -based company, which also manufactures Hot Wales and paper on paper, stated that 40% of its products are manufactured in China.
The Trump administration’s decision to exempt smartphones, “routers”, chips manufacturing equipment, some computers and mobile computers, which is called mutual customs duties on China; After a week of turmoil in the American market.
The exception is a great victory for American technology companies such as Apple, Envedia and Microsoft, all their shares fell last week, and laptops and smartphones were the highest imports from China last year, with a total value of $ 74 billion.
According to the British newspaper, Apple will welcome the exemption in particular because the largest part of its supply chain is concentrated in China.
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But Trump’s customs duties are still a source of concern for shoppers who hope to buy goods that are still subject to 125%fees.
The British newspaper quoted the prominent colleague at the Peterson Institute for International Economy, Chad Pae as saying that the speed and scope of the procedures means increasing the possibility of consumers loading costs, adding that the customs duties on China were imposed “at much higher levels, much larger, and on many new consumer products” that were not affected during the first Trump state.
He continued: “There is a much greater possibility of a significant rise in the prices of consumers who buy these types of products today.”
These fees mean that the summer temperatures may be costly for the Americans that are not pre -prepared, 9 out of 10 electrical fans purchased from abroad in the United States last year that came from China, as well as 40% of the independent air conditioning units (without the need for accessories), and China dominates the global export market for both.
Americans who are considering buying a new “microwave” will also face potential price increases; 90% of those imported to the United States came last year from China, and Beijing controls 3 quarters of the global export market.
Difficult
According to the newspaper, China’s dominance of this large number of global exports means that finding alternatives to manufacturers will not be easy, according to the former official of the British Ministry of Commerce, Ally Renison, who is currently working in the Consulting Company Sick Newgate.
She said: “American and Western companies have transferred their supply chains from China to other Asian countries in recent years, but with the continued entry of many Chinese raw materials and spare parts to the products that collect them, many will depend on the strictness of these rules for each product and the extent of these countries supporting the United States.”
She added: “The challenge does not lie in finding alternatives, because most of Southeast Asian countries have already started to increase their production of industrial goods, but rather in the type of conditions that the United States will impose on its agreements with those countries.”
Transfer outside China is very difficult for electronic products such as gaming devices and mobile phones due to the complex supply chains and skills needed to manufacture them.
“The rapid separation will be very difficult, especially for goods such as smartphones and an additional capacity must be created, workers’ training and the creation of alternative supply lines for inputs,” said Jason Miller.
And if Apple keeps its entire production of iPhone from India to the American market, it will continue to cover about half of the models that exceed 50 million and the company ships to America every year, according to Bank of America analyst, and Msi Mohan.
