{"id":38199,"date":"2025-09-26T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/38199\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:58:10","slug":"us-to-southeast-asian-chipmakers-shift-production-to-america-or-face-tariff-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/38199\/","title":{"rendered":"US to Southeast Asian chipmakers: shift production to America or face \u2018tariff solution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Semiconductor<\/a> manufacturers in Southeast Asia<\/a> must shift production to the US<\/a> or face punitive tariffs, Washington\u2019s top trade official warned on Thursday, saying tariffs \u201care the solution\u201d if trade talks with regional governments fail to deliver results.US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer<\/a> delivered the message in Kuala Lumpur, where he met with ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Greer\u2019s comments came as members of the regional bloc raced to secure better access to the world\u2019s largest consumer market, after Washington imposed sweeping tariffs of between 10 and 40 per cent on a wide range of regional exports in August.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s trade envoy acknowledged Southeast Asia\u2019s role as a key hub in the global semiconductor supply chain, but said national security concerns were driving the Trump administration\u2019s consideration of additional sector-specific tariffs targeting chips.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we want to be very careful and very thorough on how we address the international trade situation,\u201d Greer told reporters after a bilateral meeting with Malaysia\u2019s trade minister, Tengku Zafrul Aziz. \u201cWe have to have the supply chains back in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

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02:01<\/p>\n

Malaysia\u2019s Anwar slams US tariffs, calls for stronger inter-Asean trade <\/p>\n

Malaysia\u2019s Anwar slams US tariffs, calls for stronger inter-Asean trade <\/p>\n

Three weeks earlier, US President Donald Trump warned that his administration would be \u201cputting a tariff very shortly\u201d on semiconductors made by companies that do not shift production to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Semiconductor manufacturers in Southeast Asia must shift production to the US or face punitive tariffs, Washington\u2019s top trade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31118,31122,31121,114,54,184,85,46,31119,31077,12437,12521,31120,31123,15020,31124,2488,208,730],"class_list":["post-38199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asean","tag-asean-economic-ministers-meeting","tag-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jamieson-greer","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-malaysia","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-putrajaya","tag-semiconductor-manufacturers","tag-southeast-asia","tag-tengku-zafrul-aziz","tag-trump-administration","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}