{"id":196003,"date":"2025-10-02T00:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196003\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:50:13","slug":"taiwan-will-not-agree-to-50-50-chip-production-deal-with-us-negotiator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/196003\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan will not agree to 50-50 chip production deal with US, negotiator says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will not agree to a deal with the United States for half of all semiconductor production to take place in the country, the island&#8217;s top tariff negotiator said on Wednesday after returning home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told U.S. television network NewsNation over the weekend that Washington&#8217;s pitch to Taiwan would be a 50-50 split in making chips, the vast majority of which are now made on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Taiwan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun, who is leading the tariff talks with Washington, told reporters upon getting back to the island that she had not discussed the 50-50 idea suggested by the U.S. during the talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;Our negotiating team has never made any commitment to a 50-50 split on chips. Rest assured, we did not discuss this issue during this round of talks, nor would we agree to such conditions,&#8221; she said, according to Taiwan&#8217;s official Central News Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Neither the U.S. Commerce Department nor the Office of the United States Trade Representative responded to requests for comment sent outside of U.S. business hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Taiwan, home to the world&#8217;s biggest contract chipmaker TSMC, runs a large trade surplus with the United States. The island&#8217;s exports to the United States are currently subject to a 20% tariff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TSMC, whose business is surging on strong demand for <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> applications, is investing $165 billion to build chip factories in the U.S. state of Arizona, though the bulk of its production will remain in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The company declined to comment on proposals for a 50-50 chip production deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Taiwan&#8217;s government said last month that it hoped for a more favourable tariff rate from the United States after talks achieved &#8220;certain progress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Speaking in parliament in Taipei on Tuesday, Premier Cho Jung-tai said Cheng had had multiple talks with the United States on tariff issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;The most critical substantive consultations are currently underway,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Cheng, speaking at the airport, said that &#8220;detailed&#8221; discussions had taken place which yielded &#8220;certain progress&#8221;, the Central News Agency added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Separately, Taiwan&#8217;s presidential office said late on Tuesday that President Lai Ching-te had met the visiting Luke J. Lindberg, Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Lai said that a Taiwan agricultural delegation visiting the United States in September planned to buy $10 billion of U.S. agricultural goods over the coming four years, including soybeans, wheat, corn and beef.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will not agree to a deal with the United States for half of all semiconductor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,113550,3,113549,3998,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-196003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cheng-li-chiun","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-semiconductor-production","12":"tag-taiwan","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}