Summary
Trump plans to impose tariffs of up to 100% on semiconductors manufactured in Taiwan, aiming to push U.S. tech companies like Apple, Nvidia, and AMD to produce chips domestically.
The tariffs target Taiwan’s TSMC, a key supplier, despite its partial U.S. production in Arizona.
Trump criticized Biden’s CHIPS Act for funding companies like Intel and proposed tariffs as an alternative incentive.
Experts warn the move could raise prices for electronics as most TSMC chips are assembled in Asia before export to the U.S.
You may want to actually read the tracking page for your international purchases. When they get held up at a port or international airport? That is when the package is being inspected. Generally it is just weighed and someone eyeballs the declaration form and says “I don’t get paid enough for this shit”. That said, order enough stuff on aliexpress and you’ll have one or two packages get held for a few days and arrive to you wrapped in duct tape.
Very short term? Yeah, you can get away with lying on declaration forms. But that “big box of books” from Taiwan is going to raise a lot of red flags and then you are in a different mess.