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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The Trump administration said on

Friday that imported electronics from computers to smartphones won't face tariffs. But today,

Trump's top economic leaders say these

electronics will face a new sort of tariffs soon. And peers Luke Garrett has more. Companies like Apple,

Navidia and Microsoft can now import their technology and skip steep reciprocal tariff rates.

But Trump's director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, tells CNN, new tariffs on semiconductors, a key electronic component, are in the works.

For Hassett, it's a national security issue.

Semidctors are the key, important part of a lot of defense equipment.

And Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik tells ABC News, these tech tariffs are a couple months away.

So what he's doing is he's saying they're exempt from the reciprocal tariffs, but they're

included in the semiconductor tariffs, which are coming in probably a month or two.

It's unclear which products will be included in these yet-to-be-announced semiconductor tariffs.

And Trump clarified in a social media post Sunday that all Chinese

tech is still under a 20 percent fentanyl tariff. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

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