Die USA wollen die Zölle auf chinesische Halbleiter bis 2025 um 100 % erhöhen – Beamte sagen, dass dies die 53 Milliarden US-Dollar schützt, die für das CHIPS-Gesetz ausgegeben wurden

# US to increase tariffs on Chinese semiconductors by 100% in 2025 — officials say it protects the $53 billion spent on the CHIPS Act

[News](https://www.tomshardware.com/news)By [Jowi Morales](https://www.tomshardware.com/author/jowi-morales) published yesterday

„Raising the tariff rate on semiconductors is an important initial step to promote the sustainability of these investments.“ – White House

U.S. President Joe Biden has announced sweeping tariff increases across several Chinese imports, notably semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries and battery components, solar cells and many components that make up our tech. [According to a White House press release](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/14/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-action-to-protect-american-workers-and-businesses-from-chinas-unfair-trade-practices/?s=31), tariffs on Chinese semiconductors will increase from 25% to 50% in 2025, effectively doubling its tax rate.

The semiconductor industry is seen as critical for any modern society to function, with appliances as simple as microwaves to advanced autonomous military drones and everything in between requiring them. The U.S. also sees it as a strategic resource: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told the U.S. Congress that a Chinese seizure of TSMC, [the largest semiconductor manufacturer globally](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-is-now-the-worlds-largest-semiconductor-maker-by-revenue-beating-intel-and-samsung-analyst) and supplier of 92% of the chips in the United States, [would devastate the U.S. economy](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-seizing-tsmc-would-be-devastating-for-us-economy-commerce-secretary-says).

The U.S. is making moves to bring itself back to the forefront of semiconductor technology. It passed the CHIPS Act in 2022, which allocates $280 billion to spur the [growth of American semiconductor companies like Intel](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/us-govts-chips-act-gives-intel-dollar85-billion-in-funding-and-a-25-tax-credit-on-dollar100-billion-in-investments) and to [entice international companies like TSMC](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-gets-dollar66-billion-in-cash-and-dollar5-billion-in-loans-from-chips-act-plans-third-us-fab) to set up shop in the U.S. Raimondo is even calling for a second round of investments to help keep America in the lead, especially as [China combats U.S. sanctions by massively increasing its legacy chip production](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/us-sanctions-transform-china-into-legacy-chip-production-juggernaut-production-jumped-40-in-q1-2024).

US to increase tariffs on Chinese semiconductors by 100% in 2025 — officials say it protects the $53 billion spent on the CHIPS Act

„China semiconductor tariffs will rise from 25% to 50% by 2025.“

In case someone was curious about where to begin…

>Trump doesn’t get the basics. He thinks his tariffs are being paid by China, any freshman econ student could tell you that the American people are paying his tariffs.

-Joe Biden, 2019

In 2020 during an interview with NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Biden was asked whether he would „keep the tariffs“ Trump imposed on Chinese-made goods. Biden responded:

>No, we’re going after China in the wrong way.