Tariffs Leave Apple With a Cost Conundrum

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The world’s most valuable company will have to find a way to deal with rising costs, and consumers might pay. Plus, Intel’s former CEO continues making big bets. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Sunday, a Derby rivalry resumes in the Premier League.
0:04.2	As Manchester United host Manchester City at Old Trafford.
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0:22.1	Head to nowtv.com.
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0:27.7	Full terms apply.
0:33.7	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:35.6	It's Friday, April 4th.
0:37.3	I'm Victoria Craig for The Wall Street Journal.
0:39.6	If you think you're immune to the cost of President Trump's tariff blitz, think again,
0:44.9	higher costs of critical components and manufacturing could wallop the wallets of everyday tech consumers across the country.
0:52.9	Then Intel's former CEO, unseated for failing to
0:56.2	usher in a corporate turnaround, has some unfinished business in the chip world.
1:08.4	First, hard choices and no easy answers.
1:12.7	That's the situation Apple now finds itself in as it weighs how to move forward with Trump's new levies on trillions of dollars of U.S. imports.
1:21.2	Though the Tech Titan's supply chain is a diverse one, it is still reliant on other countries, including China, India, the Philippines,
1:28.6	and Japan to make and ship supplies and products like iPhones and Apple watches to America.
1:35.3	WSJ heard on the street columnist Dan Gallagher explains the cost of these tariffs that might
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