The Office of the United States Trade representative said on 7th that since August 23, a further 16 billion U.S. dollars in the mainland imports of American goods levy 25% Tariffs, has completed the final list, including some of the products from the mainland imports of semiconductors and related semiconductor equipment, the United States Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) Do not understand why semiconductors and related products will be targeted, and say that the victims will not be mainland manufacturers, but the US chip manufacturers. The latest report from China's People's daily said that with the continued warming of the U.S.-China trade war, the benefits of cheap labor and a strong supply chain of Apple (AAPL) could turn into the next boycott of American companies in China's civil rage and nationalism, And it could turn Apple and other American companies into the Beijing government's bargaining chip for the U.S. government to negotiate a U.S.-China trade war. But Jim Cramer, a well-known investment advisor, believes that Apple should not become a U.S. company that has been boycotted by the mainland government under the U.S.-China trade war, but that other US companies could be at risk. According to World Trade Online and CNBC, SIA President and CEO John Neuffer was disappointed and puzzled by the US government's 16 billion dollar continental commodity tariff levy, saying that Sia had indicated to the US government in the strongest terms that The imposition of tariffs on semiconductor products imported from the mainland would damage American chipmakers rather than mainland chipmakers, and would not help to stop the continent's problematic and discriminatory trade practices. On July 27, more than 45 lawyers had urged US trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to remove semiconductors from all U.S. government 301 trade investigation tariffs, saying the move would only hurt the US semiconductor industry, Because mainland manufacturers have little export of any semiconductor products to the U.S. market. Most of the semiconductor products imported from the mainland are designed and manufactured by most semiconductor manufacturers located in the United States, and then shipped to the mainland for final assembly, testing and encapsulation. Apart from the semiconductor industry, other U.S. companies, including the technology sector, may also be bargaining chips for mainland governments under the U.S.-China trade war, or may even be stirred up by national sentiment in the mainland to become the target of a ripple boycott. China does not want to close the market to Apple, but if Apple wants to continue to make huge profits in the mainland under the US-China trade war, it must share its development dividend with the mainland, the People's Daily reported. Chinese manufacturers in the Apple supply chain share only 1.8% of the overall profit on Apple's iphone, the People's Daily reported. The People's Daily pointed out that the Trump government's trade conflict, reminding the mainland to re-examine the U.S.-China trade, the U.S. business in the mainland seems to be the biggest winner of the U.S.-China trade, for many U.S. brand manufacturers, the mainland market is crucial, which gave Beijing the government in the trade conflict to take a tough way Jim Cramer, however, disagreed with the People's Daily, Cramer that Apple would not become a boycott of the US-China trade war, saying the threat was "playing with fire" and that Apple remained one of the largest employers in mainland China. Apple can also withdraw from the mainland market, but Apple is unlikely to do so because the mainland is a major market for Apple.
