The U.S. government has outlined the process for companies to request exemptions from 25% duties applied to around $200 billion of Chinese exports applied from May 10. Prior experience with around $50 billion of products suggests exemptions will be slow in arriving. There are still 35.2% of cases from July and August still awaiting a decision while only 21.9% of decisions have resulted in an exemption. The latest round of approvals have included optical disc drive imports by Pioneer Electronics and TEAC. Total U.S. disc drive imports in the 12 months to Mar. 31 were worth $1.64 billion, ...