{"id":21587,"date":"2026-01-15T14:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/trump-imposes-25-tariff-on-nvidia-ai-chips-and-others-citing-national-security\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:37:47","slug":"trump-imposes-25-tariff-on-nvidia-ai-chips-and-others-citing-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/trump-imposes-25-tariff-on-nvidia-ai-chips-and-others-citing-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia AI chips and others, citing national security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The order follows a nine-month investigation and includes broad exemptions for data centers and consumers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday imposed a 25% tariff on certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI<\/a> chips, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/nvidia\">Nvidia<\/a> H200 AI processor \u200band a similar semiconductor from AMD called the MI325X, under a new national security order released by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamation follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/us-initiates-section-232-investigations-into-pharmaceutical-semiconductor-2025-04-14\/\">nine-month investigation<\/a> under \u200csection 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and targets a number of high-end semiconductors meeting certain performance benchmarks and devices containing them for import duties. The action is part of a broader effort to create incentives for chipmakers to produce more semiconductors in the US and decrease reliance on chip manufacturers in places like Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/15\/trump-tariff-nvidia-ai-chips\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/60c16c51afb0ee89b7d02519aa2c93e163f953f3\/250_0_2500_2001\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fe3a474f91d675ef87e8f0d06d07e065\" title=\"Trump imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia AI chips and others, citing national security\" \/>The order follows a nine-month investigation and includes broad exemptions for data centers and consumers<br \/>\nDonald Trump on Wednesday imposed a 25% tariff on certain AI chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor \u200band a similar semiconductor from AMD called the MI325X, under a new national security order released by the White House.<br \/>\nThe proclamation follows a nine-month investigation under \u200csection 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and targets a number of high-end semiconductors meeting certain performance benchmarks and devices containing them for import duties. The action is part of a broader effort to create incentives for chipmakers to produce more semiconductors in the US and decrease reliance on chip manufacturers in places like Taiwan. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order follows a nine-month investigation and includes broad exemptions for data centers and consumers Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed a 25% tariff on certain AI chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor \u200band a similar semiconductor from AMD called the MI325X, under a new national security order released by the White House. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/trump-imposes-25-tariff-on-nvidia-ai-chips-and-others-citing-national-security\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia AI chips and others, citing national security<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}