Where were the executives of Tech Big Tech on customs duties?

If you log in to X or Bluesky last week, you may have swept an attack on the posts on Trump Mutual definitions The stock market drowned. And if you follow the technology industry closely, you may also notice from Not Publishing on definitions: Many of the same technology founders and executives who occupied Trump on the opening day in January. Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Soundar Beshai and Mark Zuckerberg Mi remained on the topic of definitions (although Beshay and Zuckerberg continued to publish them about artificial intelligence). Meanwhile, Elon Musk – Well, we will reach that.

Silence was deaf to the ears, taking into account that the “wonderful seven” Group trillion One of the dollars in the market value after the Trump tariff was announced last week. But there is a cold logic behind technology leaders who carry their tongues in public places – especially for those who sell devices. The United States has become a very volatile country where the president’s whim should be taken into account before using any political segment or a public statement, especially in an environment in which this statement can be relevant after hour.

“The sand does not stop shifting for a sufficient period to make a convincing statement,” tells me a senior executive manager, who has worked closely with two senior executives of the major technology.

Technology executives are not so In reality Stay silent. They simply press behind the scenes on their behalf. Nikki Christophe, Washington, DC, strategic political and former Senator John McCain, during his 2008 presidential campaign, says most of the strategies on trade rules – and conversations with Trump employees – occur through the back channels at the present time, says Nikki Christophe, Washington, Political Political and Former Senator John McCain, during his 2008 presidential campaign. “There is a lot of personal contact and trying to make deals,” she claims.

During the first period of Trump, Cook Carefully A direct relationship with the president to pressure him on issues such as trade and immigration. I have it difficult to imagine Cook does not use this direct line now. Nvidia Jensen Huang CEO, who did not attend the opening ceremony, And according to what he went Dinner of $ 1 million in Mar-A-Laggo last week. Shortly after that, the White House walked back to implement export controls on some of the chips that Nvidia sells to China.

The special background channels allow each technical leader to pressure the specified tariff exemptions. The type of exemptions that will benefit from NVIDIA, such as more easy -to -learn policies, vary in the benefit of graphics processing units, which may wander in Apple, taking into account the complexity of the supply chain in the company and its dependence on China. “The widespread opposition tariff is not useful if business leaders can obtain exemptions on their own products,” Kristop notes.

At the same time, the executives of technology allow commercial institutions, such as Business Roundtable, which represents a number of large technology companies including Alphabet and Amazon, do some of them to press. CEO of Business Roundtable Joshua Bolten statement Urging the administration to “quickly reach agreements” with its commercial partners and implement “reasonable exemptions.” Executive managers also managed to retreat while bankers such as JP Morgan Chase, CEO JAMIE DIMON General assurances about the permanent negative impact of definitions On the economy, while Bill Bill Akman Pelonder retains the hedge Tweet through it. (In fact, what the Technology CEO wants to be part of a round story that also includes Tweets on the market Who is an unknown X user called “Walter Bloomberg”?)

There were a few extremist values. Amazon CEO, Andy Jassi, said he believed that the large Amazon network of third -party sellers may end up Pass the cost of definitions for consumers. Last week, I sat the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella alongside Bill Gates and former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer to conduct an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin from CNBC, who asked about the customs tariff. Palmer told Sorkin that “taking enough economy in the college (knowing that) the definitions will actually bring some turmoil” and that “the turmoil is very difficult for people.”