Exemption that shields US$143 billion of US server imports is now on the table

DIGITIMESAugust 28, 2026en

For all the noise Donald Trump has made about taxing semiconductors, the measure that actually took effect in January 2026 barely touched the machines the AI build-out runs on. A 25% Section 232 duty landed on a narrow band of advanced logic chips, and an explicit carve-out spared anything imported for use in US data centers. That carve-out is why US$143.2 billion of computer processing units entered the US in the first half of 2026 without meaningfully paying it.

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