The American president has not specified, for the moment, the date of entry into force of this new customs tax.
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he planned to impose 100% customs duties on “Flea and semiconductors”without specifying, for the moment, the date of entry into force of this new customs tax.
“We are going to put important customs duties on fleas and semiconductors”he said from the White House, “Around 100%. But this is good news for companies that make them in the United States ”.
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The fleas has long been in the viewfinder of Donald Trump, who accused Taiwan of having “stolen” the American semiconductor industry. “If you are committed to manufacturing or if you are doing it, you will not pay anything,” he said on Wednesday from the White House.
Taiwan claims that TSMC will be “exempt” from surcharge
The threats of the American president, however, have shaken technological values on Asian scholarships. In Seoul, the South Korean champion of SK Hynix chips lost 0.4% around 02:30 GMT after dropping almost 3%. In Japan, Tokyo Electron, a major manufacturer of equipment for flea production, fell 3.22%, while the renesas semiconductor manufacturer ceded 3.44%.
On the other hand, the Taiwanese mastodon in the TSMC sector, which produces most of the most sophisticated semiconductors, flew by almost 5% after Taipei’s assurance that it would be spared.
Since he is “the main exporter of Taiwan, and has factories in the United States, TSMC is exempt,” said Liu Chin-Christ, director of the Taiwanese National Development Council. The stake is massive: Taiwan exported $ 7.4 billion from semiconductors to the United States in 2024.
Anxious to coax Washington, TSMC-Fleets are essential to Apple iPhones as well as cutting-edge artificial intelligence equipment of Nvidia-announced in early March in investing $ 100 billion in the United States to build factories.