Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

CES The Consumer Technology Association has issued some fresh predictions about how much Americans could be paying for their hardware if Donald Trump's wallet-busting import tariffs are enacted.

The US-based association's latest study looks at two scenarios that have been floated by the incoming president: If Trump enacts a global 10 percent import tariff and imposes an additional 60 percent for China; and if he raises global import tariffs to 20 percent with an additional 100 percent for China.

This comes after the CTA, which organizes the annual CES mega-conferences and represents the United States' $400 billion-odd personal and home tech industry, earlier suggested Trump's import tariffs would result in prices for laptops and tablets rising by as much as 46 percent in America.

Referring to ten product categories – laptops, smartphones, connected devices, video game consoles, computer accessories, monitors, desktop computers, televisions, lithium-ion batteries, and speakers and headphones – "even accounting for alternative sources of supply and potential new US production, the proposed tariffs on these ten products alone would reduce American consumers' spending power by $90 billion to $143 billion a year," the report claimed.

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