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The Editors

Episode 744: Exemption Examples

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4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Noah, Phil, and Jack discuss Trump’s tariff exemptions, the El Salvadorian president’s visit to the White House, and Harvard's sudden sudden interest in academic freedom.

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0:00.0

Trump does tariff exemptions and will Harvard ever be the same.

0:20.3

I'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

0:23.1

I'm Rich Lowellow and I'm joined as always by the Grillmaster, Phil Klein, Noah, Noah,

0:26.1

Rothman, and Jackie B.

0:28.3

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0:52.5

So, Phil, I think it was late Friday night. We got this guidance or ruling or

0:58.5

whatever it was, exempting a bunch of consumer electronics from the new tariffs on China. Most

1:06.8

notably, the iPhone, if you read up on how iPhones are manufactured, they're so deeply

1:13.8

embedded into China. It would be hugely extensive, expensive, excuse me, years-long effort

1:21.2

to pull out those supply chains and recreate them somewhere else. So if Apple wasn't going to take

1:27.1

a huge hit, it needed an exemption.

1:29.0

People kind of assumed it would get an exemption.

1:31.3

And lo and behold, it's gotten an exemption.

1:34.8

A couple things to say about this at least initially.

1:37.4

One, it's a tacit concession that the tariffs are damaging to U.S. companies and to U.S.

1:44.1

consumers, because obviously if the price of

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