Published: April 13th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

US President Donald Trump made his first significant backtrack in the tariff dispute with China on Friday evening. The US government announced that smartphones, computers and other electronic devices will be exempt from the latest punitive US tariffs on Chinese goods for the moment. On Sunday, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce called the move a „small step by the US to correct its wrong practice of unilateral ‘reciprocal tariffs’.“