Trump will explain tariffs on electronics on Monday

The administration announced late Friday that some electronics were exempt.

Last Updated: April 13, 2025, 11:43 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Sunday said there will be no exceptions for tariffs on electronics and that he would clarify his administration's policy on Monday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced late Friday that some smartphones, computers, chips and other electronics would be exempted from tariffs, but Trump's top economic advisers hit the Sunday talk shows to explain the policy, saying that tariffs against electronics would be coming in the next month or two.

“There was no Tariff ‘exemption’ announced on Friday," Trump posted Sunday afternoon, and that semiconductor tariffs will “just be moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket.’”

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Apr 07, 2025, 1:53 PM EDT

Trump issues veto threat on bipartisan bill to rein in his tariff authority

Trump would veto a bipartisan bill seeking to rein in his authority to impose tariffs, according to a White House statement sent to Senate Republicans and obtained by ABC News. The veto threat was first reported by Axios.

President Donald Trump welcomes the members of the 2024 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the East Room at the White House in Washington, April 7, 2025.
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Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell introduced legislation last week that would require the president to notify Congress of new tariffs and require it to vote to approve those tariffs within 60 days of their issuance. The bill has six other Republican cosponsors.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin and Jay O'Brien

Apr 07, 2025, 1:35 PM EDT

Trump ignores shouted questions on tariffs, markets

Reporters tried to ask Trump about his tariffs and the market volatility as he met Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the White House, but Trump did not respond.

Trump and Netanyahu are expected to discuss tariffs on Israel, which was hit with a 17% rate despite moving to cancel all remaining tariffs on American imports before Trump unveiled his "reciprocal" tariff policy last week.

Apr 07, 2025, 1:19 PM EDT

Mexico would like to avoid imposing reciprocal tariffs, president says

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday said she'd like avoid imposing reciprocal tariffs on the U.S. "as much as possible."

Sheinbaum said Mexico could impose similar tariffs on steel and aluminum, but worried about the impact for Mexican businesses.

"We prefer to continue the dialogue before any other measure," she said during her daily news conference.

Apr 07, 2025, 1:09 PM EDT

European Union ready to negotiate on tariffs but preparing countermeasures

European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday it is ready to negotiate tariffs with the Trump White House.

"Indeed, we have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully done with many other trading partners, because Europe is always ready for a good deal," she said.

"But we are also prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests," von der Leyen said, though she emphasized the EU would "prefer to have a negotiated solution."

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