Taiwan and TSMC scramble to head off Trump’s tariff threat

Taiwan looks to buy Alaskan natural gas as it seeks to head off US tariffs
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is interested in natural gas from Alaska and will continue to assess the feasibility of purchases, the economy ministry said on Monday, as the government looks to narrow the trade surplus with the United States and head off tariffs.
Taiwan and TSMC scramble to head off Donald Trump’s tariff threat
It is a coincidence that Taiwan’s deputy economy minister Cynthia Kiang arrives in Washington on Tuesday, just as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s board meets for the first time in Arizona. But the goal of Kiang’s talks with US officials is very similar to that of board meeting at TSMC’s huge new Arizona chip complex: to minimise the threat posed by tariffs planned by US President Donald Trump.
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"If Trump sees the semiconductor tariff policy through, it will affect companies in both Taiwan and the U.S.," Yang said. "The prices of Taiwan-made semiconductors will be much higher in the U.S., weakening the competitiveness of Taiwanese vendors in the U.
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Taiwanese authorities have reached out to the US and offered to buy more natural gas in response to threats from President Donald Trump to launch heavy tariffs.
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