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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Director, and US President Donald Trump while dinner with technology leaders in the White House State Dining room in Washington, Colombia District, September 4, 2025.
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President Donald Trump repeated a warning that he would soon impose “rather significant” tariffs for semiconductor imports from companies that do not move production to the US, but there will be spare firms such as Apple that expand internal investment.
Trump made comments on Thursday evening during dinner in a white house with more than two dozen major technological leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, MetaMark Zuckerberg and Oracle CEO Safra Katz.
“I discussed it with people here, chips and semiconductors, and we will put tariffs on companies that are not included,” the President said.
“We will have the tariff very soon. You probably hear that we will put a rather significant tariff, or not so high, but quite a significant tariff.”
Trump said last month during an event with Cook that it would impose 100% semiconductor import tariff by releasing products from companies moving to the US at the time, Apple pledged to spend an additional $ 100 billion on an internal production initiative, adding $ 500 billion.
During the event on Thursday, Trump noted that “Tim Cook will be in a fairly good shape” regarding potential import levies.
Semiconductor supply networks have been operating in the United States for many years. Since 2020 the world’s largest semiconductor companies such as Tsmc and Samsung Electronics made hundreds of billions of plant construction in the US
So these major semiconductor companies have Expected to receive the release Under the potential tariffs of Trump. However, many aspects of tariffs and exceptions of companies that invest in the United States remain unclear.
On Thursday, Trump suggested some details, saying that “if they enter, the construction, the plan, will not be the tariff.”
Over the dinner, she saw the technical leaders from Sam Altman Openai to Google Co -founder Sergei Brin, praise of the president for his business and II.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk who had Public fruit There was no dinner with Trump this June. However, he stated on his social media X platform that he was invited but could not attend and that he would send a representative.
Before dinner, the first Lady Melania Trump made a speech together with high -ranking officials of the Trump administration and technical leaders for the second meeting of the White House Operational Group on artificial intelligence.
The first lady emphasized the importance of II in education and American progress, but “we must responsibly manage AI growth.”
