“Not like a permanent type of exemption” for phones and computers says

President Donald Trump Trade Secretary Howard Lootnick On Sunday suggested that the mutual Customs tariff exemptions For some electronics, it may be short -term, and a separate tariff said to these products “soon”.

“It is exempt from mutual definitions, but it is listed in Semiconductor tariffs, On Sunday, Lootnick said on ABC News this week, which will come within a month or two.

Lutnick’s comments expelled cold water in the hope that the famous technical products in China, such as computers, laptops, smartphones and flat tablet TVs, will be avoided from a 145 % mutual tariff of Trump-duties that raise prices for American importers and generally move to consumers.

Customs and US Border Protection announced late Friday evening for exemptions Smartphonesand ComputersAnd other devices and technical components of mutual definitions.

On Sunday, Lootnick stressed that the United States “cannot be owned and dependent on foreign countries for the basic things we need.”

“Therefore, it is not like a kind of permanent exemption,” he said.

“These are things that are the national security that we must be in America,” Lootnick added.

The mutual tariff exemptions brought a sigh of relief at least at the present time, to technology companies, including appleThat makes many of its products in China.

But the Democratic Senator Korea Booker from New Jersey said that the ambiguity sowed by the Trump administration’s reflection late on Friday on a mutual tariff for some electronics from China – and his surprise call on Wednesday for it. Stop for 90 days In enforcing the new customs tariff for other countries – harmful to the United States

He said in an interview on Sunday on NBC News, “Meet the Press”. “We hear from all over the world. People do not know if they can trust it.”