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Heard Enough About Tariffs Yet?

April 3, 2025
If not, we collected a variety of different industry views to give you a wider perspective on the topic.

President Trump's tariffs and policies are numerous and seem to be ever-changing. Whether you like to listen, watch, or read, we have something to inform and engage from a variety of sister publications, which focus on everthing from chemicals to security, in addition to content from Electronic Design. These are designed to give you a better perspective on the impact of the tariffs across many industries, and issues that engineers and developers must contend with. 

The response to Trump's tariffs has been a spate of reciprocal tariffs

Reciprocal Tariffs Are a Response to U.S. Tariffs

The New York Times article. "‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs: See Which Countries Have the Highest Rates," presented a list of the latest reciprocal tariffs from different countries: 

Of course, these numbers are just the latest. The shifting landscape is in response to Trump's tariffs and various negotiations that seemingly occur on a daily basis. What's covered and to what degree makes it almost impossible to do any long-term planning, let alone determine where one might build something. 

Mr. Trump said that “If you want your tariff rate to be zero, then you build your product right here in America.” That may be a useful goal, but hardly one that can be done in the short term for things like semiconductors, automobiles, and bananas. I add the latter because growing bananas in the U.S. will require a bit more global warming to occur, along with a major change in farm work hiring. Bananas do grow in the U.S. and some are actually exported, but the majority are imported

Fruit aside, the list of countries with reciprocal tariffs includes major supplies of semiconductors, including South Korea, Tawain, E.U., China, and Japan. Current U.S. tariffs don't apply to chips at this point. However, that could change, and the impact of tariffs in general will affect those prices simply due to the rising cost of supporting semiconductor production. 

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About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.  

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