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Trump’s Tech Tariffs Are Awesome, for Southeast Asia
Taxing China could help other low-cost electronics producers.
A humble corner of the tech industry.
Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg
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Donald Trump may well be the best thing that’s happened to Southeast Asia’s humble electronics industry in quite a while.
Relatively small, and frankly not as sexy as their North Asia cousins, makers of components and devices with factories dotted around the region may get some time in the spotlight thanks to the U.S. administration’s decision last month to levy an additional 25 percent import tax on 818 separate items from China.