Trump says Samsung, other phone makers could be hit with tariffs

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/23/25 3:05 PM ET


President Trump on Friday expanded his tariff threat against Apple to include Samsung and other smartphone companies as he pushes for the device makers to move manufacturing to the U.S.

Asked in the Oval Office whether he has the power to tariff a single company, Trump said “it would be more” than just Apple. “It would be also Samsung and anybody that makes that product, otherwise it wouldn’t be fair,” Trump told reporters after signing executive orders. The tariffs will start at the end of June, the president added.

Trump has taken aim in recent weeks at Apple CEO Tim Cook over the iPhone maker’s moves to manufacture in India. Ahead of his Friday Oval Office appearance, Trump called out Cook on Truth Social, saying he wants iPhones sold in the U.S. to be manufactured in the country.

“If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S,” Trump wrote Friday morning. Apple produces several of its products in China, but has sought to diversify its supply chain amid Trump’s trade battle with Beijing.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5316509-trump-phones-samsung-apple-tariffs/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. To make iPhone/Samsung in US price would be $3000. Asian made $1600 phone w 25% tariff tax would be $2000

A top phone made in Asia priced at $1600 today if subject to his 25% tariff tax would be $2000.

No phones are going to be made in the US.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "No phones are going to be made in the US."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. The steel is tariff taxed at 25%, making those uneconomic as well.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. ...

(recycled paper and string)

[Norrrm]

2. Time for Musk to brand his own phones, contracted/made by Samsung but no tariffs.... because - Musk.

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. "25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S."

Does he still not understand that the producers don't pay the tariff?

[Karasu]

4. He doesn't understand that corporations in this country are far more powerful than he is. He can tell them to

"eat the tariffs" as much as he fucking wants. They're always going to pass it onto the consumer, because American capitalism.

[thesquanderer]

6. If Apple imports the product from China, Apple would pay the tariff. But that wouldn't be 25%.

He's making it up as he goes along.

[radical noodle]

9. Isn't Samsung a South Korean company?

I thought there was already a 25% tariff on products from South Korea. I swear trump is on a mission to ruin the economy to the point of no return.