By exempting tech products, Donald Trump backtrack – Liberation

As always when the announcement does not inspire pride, the news fell late on the evening of Friday, in the form of a dreary customs directive full of imported products only intelligible by business accounting services and treasury officials. The list, quickly confirmed by such an abstruse memorandum of the White House, however listed A spectacular series of exemptions The bidding of customs duties inflicted on China since April 2, nicknamed « Liberation Day » by Trump. It essentially saved iPhones, computers, instructors, semiconductors and graphics cards essential for American tech, a 145 % discounted taxes imposed on all Chinese products since April 9. But this new detour to Trump’s protectionist crusade, three days after the suspension for 90 days of customs duties on imports from 60 overwhelmed “offenders” countries, mainly arouses new conjectures. A return to reason, or a new sign of inconsistency and amateurism of the president?

The same evening, as if to deny the idea of ​​a new reception by the American president, Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff of the White House and Guardian Fanati