Trump will explain tariffs on electronics on Monday
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.’”
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Trump threatens to add 50% tariff on China if it doesn't remove retaliatory measures
Trump on Monday threatened to increase tariffs against China again if Beijing doesn't remove the retaliatory tariffs it placed on the U.S.
Trump wrote on his social media platform that "if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th."
"Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated! Negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately," he added.
A senior White House official said that this would be in addition to the 34% "reciprocal" tariff Trump announced last week set to go into effect on Wednesday and the 20% that is already in place, making for a potential total of a 104% tariff.
-ABC News' Mary Bruce
Trump tells investors not to panic
President Donald Trump posted for investors not to panic, coining a new term for a party "based on Weak and Stupid people," called a "PANICAN," just minutes before stocks opened on Monday.
"The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO," the president wrote on Truth Social. "Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!"
Nonetheless, the Dow Jones dropped more 1,000 points at opening.
Trump claims tariffs are making 'billions,' offers no evidence
President Donald Trump touted the U.S. economy in a post to Truth Social on Monday, saying that oil prices, interest rates and other prices are down and claiming -- without providing evidence -- that "the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place."
"This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, China, whose markets are crashing, just raised its Tariffs by 34%, on top of its long term ridiculously high Tariffs (Plus!), not acknowledging my warning for abusing countries not to retaliate," Trump wrote.
The president made no mention of the dramatic losses in Asian and European markets on Monday.
ABC News' Michelle Stoddart
Tariffs will 'likely' increase inflation, JPMorgan Chase CEO says
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wrote in a letter to investors published on Monday of his "serious concern" as to how President Donald Trump's tariff policy "will affect America's long-term economic alliances."
"The recent tariffs will likely increase inflation and are causing many to consider a greater probability of a recession," Dimon wrote in JPMorgan Chase's 2024 annual report.
"And even with the recent decline in market values, prices remain relatively high," he added. "These significant and somewhat unprecedented forces cause us to remain very cautious."
"The United States has had a rather healthy and steady economy for years, although it was already weakening as I began writing this letter -- and that was before the recent tariff announcement," he added.
-ABC News' Zunaira Zaki