{"id":986425,"date":"2026-01-20T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986425"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:59:31","slug":"us-commerce-secretary-warns-korean-taiwanese-firms-may-face-100-chip-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/us-commerce-secretary-warns-korean-taiwanese-firms-may-face-100-chip-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"US Commerce Secretary warns Korean, Taiwanese firms may face 100% chip tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said South Korean memory chipmakers and Taiwanese companies that aren\u2019t investing in the US may face up to 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased production on American soil, as the Trump administration ramps up calls for additional foreign investment. <\/p>\n<p>Following a ground breaking ceremony for a new Micron Technology plant outside Syracuse, New York, Lutnick said that potential levies spelled out under a trade accord with Taiwan could also affect chipmakers from South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said South Korean memory chipmakers and Taiwanese companies that aren\u2019t investing in the US may face up to 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased production on American soil, as the Trump administration ramps up calls for additional foreign investment. Following a ground breaking ceremony for a new Micron Technology plant outside Syracuse, New York, Lutnick said that potential levies spelled out under a trade accord with Taiwan could also affect chipmakers from South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986425","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}