{"id":985585,"date":"2026-01-16T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985585"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:37:50","slug":"trump-imposes-25-tariff-on-imports-of-some-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/trump-imposes-25-tariff-on-imports-of-some-ai-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump imposes 25% tariff on imports of some AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump \u200bon Wednesday imposed a 25% tariff on certain AI chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor and a \u2060similar semiconductor from AMD called the MI325X, under a new national security order released by the White House. <\/p>\n<p>The proclamation follows a nine-month investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and targets a number of high-end semiconductors meeting certain performance benchmarks and devices containing them for import duties. The action is part of a broader effort to create incentives \u200cfor chipmakers to produce more \u200csemiconductors in the U.S. and decrease reliance on chip manufacturers in places like Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump \u200bon Wednesday imposed a 25% tariff on certain AI chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor and a \u2060similar semiconductor from AMD called the MI325X, under a new national security order released by the White House. The proclamation follows a nine-month investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and targets a number of high-end semiconductors meeting certain performance benchmarks and devices containing them for import duties. The action is part of a broader effort to create incentives \u200cfor chipmakers to produce more \u200csemiconductors in the U.S. and decrease reliance on chip [&hellip;]<\/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-985585","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\/985585","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=985585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}