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Return from the back: Trump Minister announces new tariffs
Updated on April 13th, 2025 – 5:00 p.m.Reading time: 11 min.
The US government wants to introduce new special tariffs. Trump opponent Bernie Sanders surprisingly appears at a music festival. All developments in the news blog.
In an interview, US Minister of Trade Howard Lutnick announces that smartphones, computers and some other electronic devices will be subject to separate tariffs together with semiconductors. These may be imposed in about a month, Lutnick told the broadcaster ABC. Previously, it had become known that the products in question should actually be excluded from the recently imposed US supplements. Economic analysts had reacted relieved-also because the USA from China imports many important electric devices.
At his fight against the “oligarchy” in the USA, the left -wing Senator Bernie Sanders gathered tens of thousands of opponents of the government of President Donald Trump at the weekend. According to Sanders, 36,000 people came to his common rally with the Member of Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday. He later delighted the mostly young audience with a surprise appearance at the Coachella Music Festival in the California desert.
“Your presence here makes Donald Trump and Elon Musk nervous,” said Sanders at the rally in Los Angeles. “We live at a time when a handful of billionaires control the economy and the political life of our country.” Trump converted the country at a high pace “into an authoritarian form of society”, added the icon of the left in the USA.
The 83-year-old Sanders added on Saturday after the performance in Los Angeles and traveled to the Coachella Festival. With a surprise appearance shortly after the last song by the British singer Charli XCX, he made the spectators cheer with his message against political disenchantment. “This country faces major challenges and what happens to America depends on your generation,” said Sanders.
“You can turn away and ignore what happens, but you harm yourself. You have to get up and fight for justice, for economic justice, social justice and racial justice,” he appealed on stage to the spellbound -listening festival visitors, who had gathered in the desert, among other things for stars such as Green Day, Lady Gaga and Post Malone.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Democrats’ hope of hope, was surprised by Donald Trump. He used an appointment with her for PR purposes. She reacted strange. Read more about the incident here.
The United States is taking smartphones and computers from President Donald Trump’s controversial customs increases. This emerges from a document by the US customs and border protection authority, which was published on Friday evening (local time). The exception of the massive customs increases also become semiconductors.
