{"id":409048,"date":"2026-01-15T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:04:12","slug":"south-korea-to-keep-monitoring-us-chip-tariffs-to-minimise-impact-industry-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409048\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea to keep monitoring US chip tariffs to minimise impact, industry minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">SEOUL, Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South Korean Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan said on \u200bThursday that the government will \u200ckeep monitoring developments on U.S. tariffs on certain AI \u200csemiconductor chips to minimise the impact on local industries, according to a ministry statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The ministry met with officials from \u2060South Korean semiconductor \u200ccompanies to discuss how to cope with the 25% tariff \u200dimposed on some advanced chips announced by the White House on Wednesday, a second statement \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The officials said that since the \u200ctariffs will not apply to chips for U.S. data centres and startups, it would not have a significant impact on Korean companies, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The \u2060companies noted, however, that \u200ba White House fact \u200bsheet indicated that President Donald Trump may impose broader tariffs on \u200dimports of \u2060semiconductors and their derivative products to incentivise domestic manufacturing, which would create \u2060significant uncertainty for the industry, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting \u200cby Heejin Kim and Heekyong YangEditing \u200cby Ed Davies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South Korean Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan said on \u200bThursday that the government will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,196573,196572,65754,27752,3123],"class_list":{"0":"post-409048","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-korean-companies","11":"tag-ministry-statement","12":"tag-semiconductor-companies","13":"tag-south-korean","14":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409048","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=409048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}