The administration announced late Friday that some electronics were exempt.
President Donald Trump on Sunday said there will be no exceptions for tariffs on electronics and that he would clarify his administration's policy on Monday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced late Friday that some smartphones, computers, chips and other electronics would be exempted from tariffs, but Trump's top economic advisers hit the Sunday talk shows to explain the policy, saying that tariffs against electronics would be coming in the next month or two.
“There was no Tariff ‘exemption’ announced on Friday," Trump posted Sunday afternoon, and that semiconductor tariffs will “just be moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket.’”
ABC News's Mary Bruce asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt about the tariff situation with China and why President Donald Trump hasn't picked up the phone and negotiated directly.
Leavitt declined to respond.
"I will leave it to that, our national security team to get these discussions underway," she said.
In a new post on his media platform, President Donald Trump said that the U.S. is "doing really well on our TARIFF POLICY."
"Very exciting for America, and the World!!! It is moving along quickly," Trump said in Friday's post.
ABC News' Michelle Stoddart
President Donald Trump said he's negotiating with other countries on tariffs, but China still isn't one of them.
When asked by ABC News if there are any negotiations with China as this trade war ramps up, U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer said, "not at this point."
China's Ministry of Finance announced Friday that Beijing will increase tariffs on all U.S. goods from 84% to 125%.
China raising its tariffs is the latest tit for tat with the two sides locked in a faceoff.
--ABC News' Rachel Scott
China's Ministry of Finance announced Friday that Beijing will increase tariffs on all U.S. goods from 84% to 125%, in response to the U.S. "imposition of abnormally high tariffs on China."
The new rate will come into force on Saturday, the ministry's announcement said.
The White House this week said that the rate of tariffs on Chinese goods was now at 145%.
"Given that at the current tariff level, there is no market acceptance for U.S. goods exported to China, if the U.S. continues to impose tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the United States, China will ignore it," the Chinese Finance Ministry's statement said.
-ABC News' Karson Yiu
