From PC Mag: A dormant 25% tariff on Chinese-assembled graphics cards and motherboards will stay on hold for another three months after the Trump administration opted to extend the exclusion.
The 25% tariff was supposed to take effect over the weekend. But on Saturday, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced a last-minute pause that will last through Aug. 31.
"The US Trade Representative’s decision to extend these exclusions takes into account public comments previously provided, previous advice of the advisory committees, and the interagency Section 301 Committee,” it says.
The statement suggests Trump officials want to give affected vendors more time to transition their manufacturing away from China before reactivating the tariff. In the past, PC component vendors, including Nvidia, have indicated that most GPU production still occurs in China, which is already home to much of the world’s electronics manufacturing.
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