Apple, Tesla and other US tech groups hit as Donald Trump targets suppliers
@Tom_Brady:
Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime threatens upheaval for the likes of Apple, Amazon and other US companies that rely heavily on manufacturing in China and other countries now targeted for extra levies.The US president’s extra tariffs, due to come into effect within days, impose a universal 10 per cent levy on all countries. But they are much steeper for many of the Asian countries whose factories are deeply embedded in supply chains relied on by US multinationals.The extent of new tariffs was “worse than the worst case” scenario that markets feared, wrote Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives.The tech sector “will clearly be under major pressure on this announcement worries about demand destruction, supply chains and especially the China and Taiwan piece of the tariffs”, Ives noted.Technology co