While President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would delay many of the market-shaking tariffs that he'd announced the previous week, he kept a universal baseline 10% tariff in place, while also increasing tariffs on Chinese goods to 125% (on top of a 20% tariff that he'd already imposed on goods from China). There's been plenty of speculation about what the tariffs will mean for the tech industry, which manufactures many consumer electronics in China and elsewhere abroad. One of Trump's stated goals is to bring manufacturing back to the United States, but others believe the dream of an American-made iPhone is a fantasy. Those debates may be paused after Friday evening, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a list of product categories that are 'excluded from the reciprocal tariffs imposed under Executive Order 14257,' with the exclusions backdated to April 5. Those categories appear to include smartphones, laptops, hard drives, and semiconductors. Those products will...
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