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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday introduced that Washington had reached a “Full and Full” commerce cope with Seoul, setting blanket tariffs on the nation’s exports to U.S. at 15%.
This deal would imply the duties shall be lowered from the 25% that Trump had threatened in his “tariff letter” to Seoul earlier this month.
Trump additionally stated in a publish on social media platform Fact Social that South Korea will “will give to america $350 Billion {Dollars} for Investments owned and managed by america, and chosen on my own, as President.”
South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung stated in a Fb publish that his nation had concluded the tariff negotiations with america and the $350 billion fund “will play a task in facilitating the energetic entry of Korean firms into the US market in industries the place now we have strengths, corresponding to shipbuilding, semiconductors, secondary batteries, biotechnology, and power,” in line with a CNBC translation of his assertion in Korean.
He stated $150 billion of that allocation shall be for “shipbuilding cooperation offering sturdy assist for Korean firms getting into the US shipbuilding trade,” including that “It is vital to realize mutually useful outcomes, not simply pursue unilateral beneficial properties.”
Trump stated that as a part of the deal, Seoul will buy $100 billion {dollars} of LNG or different power merchandise from the U.S, including that Seoul had additionally agreed to take a position “a big sum of cash for his or her Funding functions.” The sum shall be disclosed when Lee visits Washington for a bilateral summit inside the subsequent two weeks he added.
U.S. items is not going to be subjected to any tariffs, he added. As of 2024, South Korea’s efficient tariff charge for items imported from the U.S. was about 0.79%. Seoul has a free commerce settlement with the U.S. since 2012.
Lee stated in his publish that “I hope that via this, industrial cooperation between Korea and US shall be strengthened and the alliance between Korea and America may even be strengthened,” but in addition added that Seoul will maintain “diplomacy centered on nationwide curiosity” as its high precept.
South Korea’s pact with the U.S. comes days after Japan managed to strike to the same cope with Trump.
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