The Taiwan government said it will discuss whether to help its domestic chip departments after the U.S. President Donald Trump is threatened to impose tariffs on semiconductors.
Prime Minister Cho Jung-TAI responded carefully to Trump's speeches on Wednesday. Tariffs imposed on imported semiconductorsPharmaceutical and steel-to make manufacturers manufacture them in the United States.
Report Tom's hardware Trump said the scope of tariffs ranging from “25 %, 50 %, or even 100 % of taxes” encouraged chip manufacturers to return to the United States coast.
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It said: “The new US president also took this opportunity to criticize the US technology giants such as Apple, AMD, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm, and sent all its chip production business to Taiwan TSMC.”
“In addition, he was originally scheduled to be” ridiculous plan “of his predecessor ( Chip method) Wasting semiconductor giants established and expanded billions of dollars in the United States. “
Taiwan is the world's largest contract chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC). It is also a key link in global technology supply chains such as Apple and NVIDIA. It's just Start making 4 -nano -chip in the New Arizona factory in the United StatesEssence
TSMC has not issued its own official statement.
But Prime Minister, Cho answered questions about Trump, saying that the Ministry of Economic Affairs and other departments have been paying close attention to “the development of the past few days.”
He added: “In one or two days, we will eagerly study whether we need to formulate more cooperation plans and future assistance plans for the industrial department.”
“I want to assure our compatriots that Taiwan's status in the world's industrial chain stores cannot be ignored. We will continue to maintain this advantage.”
“Fight for more external cooperation”
Qiao Bujin said that Taiwan must continue to cooperate outside and maintain a leadership position in the industry and technology field.
In 2020, according to the first Trump administration, TSMC announced that it will build a $ 12 billion factory in Arizona to win the US government's efforts to recapture the global technology supply chain from China. Later, it enhanced these plans, with a total investment of $ 65 billion.
TSMC refused to comment on Trump's latest tariff evaluation.
Taiwan Economic Minister Kuo Jyh-Huei said he only expected Trump to have a small impact on any tariffs on semiconductor exports, in view of his technological advantages.
In another potential challenge in Taiwan, Trump instructed federal agencies last week to investigate the United States' continuous trade deficit and unfair trade practices, and accuses currency manipulation of other countries.
Compared with the United States and the United States in 2023, the trade surplus of the United States and the United States has soared by 83 %, and the exports of the United States have reached a record 111.4 billion US dollars, which is driven by the demand for high -tech products (such as semiconductor).
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