{"id":986350,"date":"2026-01-19T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986350"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:12:35","slug":"us-chip-tariff-south-korea-says-limited-immediate-impact-warns-of-phase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/us-chip-tariff-south-korea-says-limited-immediate-impact-warns-of-phase-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US chip tariff: South Korea says limited immediate impact, warns of \u2018phase 2\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s trade ministry has responded to the Trump administration\u2019s new trade policy wherein the company has imposed 25% tariff on advanced computing chips. The country\u2019s trade minister has said that the tariffs will have a \u201climited impact\u201d on the country&#8217;s tech giants \u2013 for now. According to news agency Reuters, South Korea\u2019s Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo noted that since the current measures focus on logic chips rather than the memory chips that dominate South Korea\u2019s exports, the immediate financial blow is cushioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the memory chips that South Korean companies mainly export are currently excluded, the immediate impact is expected to be limited,\u201d Minister Yeo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s trade ministry has responded to the Trump administration\u2019s new trade policy wherein the company has imposed 25% tariff on advanced computing chips. The country\u2019s trade minister has said that the tariffs will have a \u201climited impact\u201d on the country&#8217;s tech giants \u2013 for now. According to news agency Reuters, South Korea\u2019s Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo noted that since the current measures focus on logic chips rather than the memory chips that dominate South Korea\u2019s exports, the immediate financial blow is cushioned. \u201cSince the memory chips that South Korean companies mainly export are currently excluded, the immediate impact is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}