{"id":937670,"date":"2025-06-11T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T01:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937670"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T01:41:48","slug":"us-tariffs-smartphones-pcs-may-become-expensive-for-customers-says-sp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/11\/us-tariffs-smartphones-pcs-may-become-expensive-for-customers-says-sp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US tariffs: Smartphones, PCs may become expensive for customers, says S&amp;P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Smartphones and personal computers (PCs) may become expensive as a result of manufacturers passing on the higher costs, arising from US tariffs, to end-consumers, S&amp;P Global Ratings said. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018We expect PC and phone makers will pass on the higher cost to customers even if it leads to some demand destruction, especially for consumers who make up 45% of PC sales and most of smartphone sales,\u2019 the global credit ratings agency said in a research note, seen by ETTelecom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Smartphones and personal computers (PCs) may become expensive as a result of manufacturers passing on the higher costs, arising from US tariffs, to end-consumers, S&amp;P Global Ratings said. \u2018We expect PC and phone makers will pass on the higher cost to customers even if it leads to some demand destruction, especially for consumers who make up 45% of PC sales and most of smartphone sales,\u2019 the global credit ratings agency said in a research note, seen by ETTelecom.<\/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-937670","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\/937670","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=937670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}