Apple before choosing: Most Apple smartphones are produced in China, to which the Americans imposed a 54 % customs rate. Apple will therefore have a choice – to bear additional expenses itself or transfer them to customers. If he chooses the second option, the prices of devices can increase significantly in the United States.
Price of the latest iPhone model? Apple sells over 220 million iPhones a year. The largest markets are the USA, China and the European Union. Analysts of the Rosenblatt Securities investment bank have calculated that latest The iPhone model, or “sixteen” after the introduction of duties from the current 799 to $ 1142. It's 43 percent more. Other experts say that there will be no such increase, because the current sales of the iPhone 16 are not impressed, and the recipients have been disappointed by the new Apple Intelligence system using artificial intelligence.
Trump hits: US President Donald Trump introduced a minimum 10 % duties rate for goods from around the world and additional duties for most other countries, including e.g. a 20 % duty for products from the European Union and 54 % from China. The base duties are to be in force this Saturday April 5, and mutual duties on April 9.
Canadian retaliation: Prime Minister Canada Mark Carney has already responded to the US actions and presented a list of new regulations to be introduced in accordance with the principle of reciprocity. Carney said that Canada will apply a 25 % duties on all cars imported from the USA. The exception will be cars subject to the American-Canadian-Metician trade agreement. Customs will not be applied to car parts. – Given the losses for its own nation, the American administration should change the course in the future. However, I do not want to give false hope – he said prime minister. He added that the departure of the USA from the policy of promoting free trade is a “tragedy”. In turn, the head of the Polish government Donald Tusk He informed that he had invited representatives of the automotive industry to talk about new American customs duties. The meeting is to take place on Tuesday.
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Sources. IAR, Reuters