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Title: Report: How Tim Cook helped Apple avoid Trump’s tariffs Post by: HCK on April 24, 2025, 04:05:07 pm Report: How Tim Cook helped Apple avoid Trump’s tariffs
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/04/tim-cook-trump.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Over the week, the Trump administration announced (https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/12/iphone-wont-face-trump-tariff-price-hike-for-now-following-exemption/) a set of exemptions for its tariffs imposed on products imported into the United States from China. The exemptions cover product categories like smartphones and laptops, giving Apple a huge reprieve for the iPhone, Mac, and more. In comments earlier this week (https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/trump-touts-how-he-helped-tim-cook-with-pivots-on-us-tariffs/), Trump bragged about how he “helped” Apple with these exemptions. </p> <p>A new report from The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/17/apple-iphone-tariff-exemption-trump/) dives into the inner workings of the Trump administration, particularly as they relate to Apple CEO Tim Cook.</p> <a data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="aapl" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" data-post-id="998030" href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/17/tim-cook-trump-tariffs/#more-998030" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: Report: How Tim Cook helped Apple avoid Trump’s tariffs (https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/17/tim-cook-trump-tariffs/) |