Sri Lanka, April 14 -- U.S. President Donald Trump affirmed his administration's latest message that the exclusion of smartphones and computers from his reciprocal tariffs on China will be short-lived, pledging a national security trade investigation into the semiconductor sector.

In a social media post, Trump said that those electronics are just moving to a different "tariff bucket."

"We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the whole electronics supply chain in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations" he said.

The White House announced the exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs on Friday.

However, Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick later clarified that critical technology products from China would face separ...