--- title: "Lutnick- US to Slap “Special Focus” Tariffs on Electronics" type: "post" post_id: "9562" slug: "lutnick-us-to-slap-special-focus-tariffs-on-electronics" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/04/20/lutnick-us-to-slap-special-focus-tariffs-on-electronics/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/04/20/lutnick-us-to-slap-special-focus-tariffs-on-electronics.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/04/20/lutnick-us-to-slap-special-focus-tariffs-on-electronics.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/04/20/lutnick-us-to-slap-special-focus-tariffs-on-electronics.txt" published: "2025-04-20T19:47:11+00:00" modified: "2025-04-20T19:47:11+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- ##### ***They were on. Then off. Now, on again**, **with “special focus”*** > [Tarrifs on Chinese Made Electronics- Yes or No?](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/04/14/tarrifs-on-chinese-made-electronics-yes-or-no/) [**Link**](https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1169321/opinion/business/us-slaps-new-tariffs-on-phones-and-electronics) **While the tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump remain in abeyance for 90-days, US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said last week that smartphones, computers and some other electronics, just exempted from steep tariffs on imports from China,** `would face separate new duties along with semiconductors within the next two months…. ` **Lutnick says the President will enact a special focus tariff**