The US Circus Circus continued over the weekend, with the US government’s notice, through the customs office and border protection, excluding tariffs for the technology sector including devices such as computers and smartphones. But what is not included in video games, belonging to toys, not technology.
To make everything more confusing and uncertain, Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday on ABC This week It is a separate tax rate for electronic devices on the road and is expected to be released in about one or two months. The electronic devices on the exemption list published on Friday still suffer a 20% tax, just no – the present – a total of 145% tax for China’s imported goods. Similarly, the components used in the game panel are larger tax -free, but still faces a 20% tax that is applied to all Chinese imports. That figure is likely to change, according to Lutnick’s comments on the upcoming semiconductor tax rate.
The extensive taxes of US President Donald Trump were published a few hours after Nintendo announced the release date of June 5 for the Switch 2 control panel, causing the company to delay the previous announcement date for customers of the United States and Canada. At that time, Trump published large tax rates for dozens of countries, including 46% of taxes for Vietnam’s imports; Nintendo has moved a good part in her production to Vietnam in the first Trump administration. These taxes are being delayed in 90 days, saving for a global tax rate.
However, in addition to Nintendo, other console manufacturers face price difficulties in the face of Trump’s tariffs. If the tariffs are 125% for Chinese -made goods, the dashboard from Microsoft and Sony may increase; In fact, Sony has announced on Monday to increase prices for its PlayStation 5 gaming devices in Europe, England, Australia and New Zealand. The speed that tariffs has changed, is also creating uncertainty in the market.
This is an unusual situation that causes many chaos, and a situation that we need to consider for all fields, even the video game industry, the Niko Partners industry analysts wrote in a blog post last week.
