Even at the stage of his pre -election campaign, the current US President Donald Trump made criticism of the so -called “chip law”, which was adopted by his predecessor at the end of 2022 and suggested the allocation of $ 39 billion subsidies for the construction of enterprises for the production of chips in the country . Now Trump is determined to raise import duties on goods, the production of which democrats tried to stimulate the production at the expense of subsidies.
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According to The Verge, speaking this week at an event in Florida, Donald Trump already “in the near future” promised to revise import duties on computer chips, other types of semiconductor components and medical drugs. To return the production of these goods to the US territory, it is not necessary to attract manufacturers with subsidies – the best incentive for manufacturers will be the opportunity not to pay high duties, as Trump explained.
«In the very near future, we are going to introduce tariffs for the foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals to return the production of these most important goods to the United States, Trump said at the Republicans of Republicans of the House of Representatives. – They left us and left for Taiwan; We want them to return. We do not want to give them billions of dollars, as in this ridiculous program, according to which Biden gave everyone billions of dollars. They already have billions of dollars. […] They don’t need money. They needed an incentive. And the incentive will be that they [will not want to] pay a tax of 25, 50 or even 100 %. ”
Some sources have already identified earlier that if Trump’s duties offered by Trump will enter into force, then the imported laptops and tablets in the United States will rise in price by 46 %, game consoles will become more expensive by 40 %, and smartphones by 26 %. This week, Trump said that “in a short time we will get more built factories in the United States, which would make the program launched (Biden).”
By the end of last year, the US Department of Trade managed to distribute more than $ 30 billion subsidies among 23 projects implemented in 15 American states, these projects should contribute to 16 new enterprises. Not all these projects were finally coordinated under Bayden, but Trump has not yet been able to formulate what would happen to the industry subsidy program in the era of his reign. At the same time, the so -called Stargate project was one of the first high -profile projects for Trump, which implies investments in the infrastructure of AI in the USA of $ 500 billion for four years.