{"id":1031653,"date":"2026-08-28T07:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031653"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:25:54","slug":"us-weighs-a-new-round-of-tariffs-on-semiconductors-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/us-weighs-a-new-round-of-tariffs-on-semiconductors-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US weighs a new round of tariffs on semiconductors, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is considering a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, Politico reported on Thursday citing eight people familiar with discussions. <\/p>\n<p>A new tariff \u200cproposal \u2060could tax \u2060a wider range of tech goods. Instead of \u200bjust targeting microchips, the duties would also apply to \u200bproducts that use them, such as laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers, the \u200breport said. <\/p>\n<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick \u2060favors a \u200cstructure that will tie foreign \u200bcompanies&#8217; \u200brelief from the tariffs to investment \u2060in U.S. chip manufacturing to boost local \u200bproduction, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is considering a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, Politico reported on Thursday citing eight people familiar with discussions. A new tariff \u200cproposal \u2060could tax \u2060a wider range of tech goods. Instead of \u200bjust targeting microchips, the duties would also apply to \u200bproducts that use them, such as laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers, the \u200breport said. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick \u2060favors a \u200cstructure that will tie foreign \u200bcompanies&#8217; \u200brelief from the tariffs to investment \u2060in U.S. chip manufacturing to boost local \u200bproduction, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031676,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031653\/revisions\/1031676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}