{"id":377022,"date":"2026-01-18T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:54:13","slug":"south-korea-to-negotiate-with-the-us-for-favourable-chip-tariff-terms-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377022\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea to negotiate with the US for favourable chip tariff terms, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">SEOUL, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; South Korea will seek favourable terms \u200bfor U.S. tariffs on \u200cimports of memory chips, a presidential office \u200cspokesperson said at a televised briefing on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The country last year released a joint fact \u2060sheet on \u200cits trade deal with the U.S. that included terms \u200densuring South Korea will not receive unfavourable treatment from U.S. tariffs \u200bon imported chips compared to \u200ckey competitors, the official said, when asked about the Trump administration&#8217;s proclamation imposing tariffs on <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">On Saturday, South Korea&#8217;s \u2060trade minister said \u200bU.S. tariffs on \u200bsome advanced computing chips would have a limited impact \u200don South \u2060Korean companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">South Korea&#8217;s Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are among \u2060the world&#8217;s biggest memory chip producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting \u200cby Heejin Kim; Editing \u200cby Jamie Freed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; South Korea will seek favourable terms \u200bfor U.S. tariffs on \u200cimports of memory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,143414,111219,143413,11998,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-377022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-included-terms","11":"tag-memory-chips","12":"tag-presidential-office","13":"tag-south-korea","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}