14-04-2025, 12:31 PM
Top trade adviser said it was all according to plan.
The retreat on tech products came as Trump's tariff flip-flops sent the stock market on a roller coaster ride.
"There was no Tariff 'exception' announced on Friday," Trump wrote. "These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff 'bucket.'”
Jamieson Greer, Trump's trade representative, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that electronics are "shifting from one bucket of tariffs to a different bucket of potential tariffs."
Musk said Navarro was "truly a moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks" in an April 8 X post after the trade adviser implied Musk's opposition to tariffs on China boiled down to Tesla using Chinese-made batteries.
"I've been called worse," Navarro said in the Sunday NBC interview. "Everything's fine with Elon."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli.../?tbref=hp
The retreat on tech products came as Trump's tariff flip-flops sent the stock market on a roller coaster ride.
"There was no Tariff 'exception' announced on Friday," Trump wrote. "These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff 'bucket.'”
Jamieson Greer, Trump's trade representative, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that electronics are "shifting from one bucket of tariffs to a different bucket of potential tariffs."
Musk said Navarro was "truly a moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks" in an April 8 X post after the trade adviser implied Musk's opposition to tariffs on China boiled down to Tesla using Chinese-made batteries.
"I've been called worse," Navarro said in the Sunday NBC interview. "Everything's fine with Elon."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli.../?tbref=hp