Trump admin already walks back smartphone, laptop tariff exemption [View all]

Donald Trump's tariff policies appear to be changing once again.

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Appearing on This Week on ABC News, Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Nutlick said that the smartphone and computer tariff exemptions are only temporary.

"We need to have semiconductors, we need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels — we need to have these things made in America," Lutnick said.

"This is not like a permanent sort of exemption," Lutnick continued before referring to Trump's thinking on tariffs. "He's just clarifying that these are not available to be negotiated away by countries. These are things that are national security, that we need to be made in America."

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