Exemption that shields US$143 billion of US server imports is now on the table

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Aug 27, 2026, 11:22 pm91 ptsTrending
For all the noise Donald Trump has made about taxing semiconductors, the measure that actually took effect in January 2026 barely touched the machines the AI build-out runs on. A 25% Section 232 duty landed on a narrow band of advanced logic chips, and an explicit carve-out spared anything imported for use in…

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