US Tariffs to Impact Micron’s Gross Margin

The US tariffs on Chinese goods would impact US companies that manufacture or import goods from China (FXI), including Micron Technology (MU). Micron Technology is the world’s third-largest memory chip maker and competes with South Korean rivals Samsung (SSNLF) and SK Hynix in terms of price and technology. As Samsung and Sk Hynix have a cost advantage over Micron in the DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) market, they can offer DRAM at a lower price than Micron and still remain profitable. The second round of 10% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports includes SSDs (solid-state drives) and printed circuit board assemblies that integrate DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) modules to electronics devices.