The Apple Watch import ban has gone into effect in the US

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If Santa left you an Apple Watch Series 9 or an Ultra 2 model during the US spur of his Christmas run, congratulations! If you wanted one but didn’t get it, too bad. The Biden administration declined to veto a US import ban on Apple’s flagship watch models. The United States International Trade Commission (ITC), a federal agency that adjudicates some intellectual property disputes, set a Christmas deadline for the president to step in and give Apple the gift of continued imports. Joe Biden didn’t do that, so Americans can’t buy the watches anymore because they’re manufactured in China and...