New Trump rates do not include fitness trackers or the Apple Watch.

For months, tech companies have worried about imminent tariffs on Chinese imports of $ 200 billion, which could push up the price of essential technology products by 25%. Today, the industry has finally got good news: according to one Bloomberg Report, the final price list does not include devices that receive and transmit voice data, a category that includes Apple Watch, Fitbits, Sonos Speakers and a host of other fitness trackers and home assistants.

The White House has recently lowered the tax rate of imports. During the weekend, The Wall Street Journal indicated that the products listed would probably be taxed at only 10%. Last August, President Trump had planned to set the rate at 25%.

Customs documents describe the category in vague terms, listing them as "machines for receiving, converting and transmitting or regenerating voice, images or other data". trackers and personal voice assistants. According to a letter submitted by Apple to the US Trade Representative, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, BeatsWL, AirPort and Time Capsule all fall under the code.

Other categories of Apple products will still be affected by the tariff, including adapters, Mac mini and printed circuit boards or internal components delivered individually to the United States.

Apple was publicly opposed to the rates listed as a burden to US consumers and the company itself. "It's hard to see how the tariffs that hit US companies and US consumers will advance the government's targets for China's technology policies," Apple wrote in the same letter.

Tariff reduction is still likely to cause significant chaos in the technology sector, which has become increasingly dependent on Chinese industry in recent years. The new rates do not include major items such as telephones or computers, but they should nevertheless severely disrupt the manufacturing channels.

"Overall, I'm not sure that these tariffs do much more than hinder the manufacturing of American technologies and make things more difficult for small start-ups and amateur pirates," said the co-founder of Pebble, Rahul Bhagat. The edge earlier this year.