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Analysis: What Trump's Proposed Tariffs Could Mean for Taiwan's Economy
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11/7/2024
With Donald Trump threatening potentially unprecedented tariffs in his second term as U.S. president, TaiwanPlus talks to Alicia Garcia-Herrero for more on what the consequences a protectionist U.S. could have for the global economy.
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With Donald Trump looking to put high tariffs on China and other countries that he deems
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uncooperative in global trade, what kind of consequences could we be looking at in the
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entire global economy?
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What is going to happen?
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I think numbers will be high and some industries will go or some companies, I mean, it will
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have massive implications.
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But remember what happened in 2018 and 2019, he started carving out the tariffs.
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So you know, I exclude this item, I exclude the other item.
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So it creates humongous uncertainty for companies, but it's extremely costly for the world because
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this is not free trade, this is really about, again, arbitrage, tariffs here, tariffs there.
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So it's a massive downward pressure on growth for the world because we know trade is growth
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enhancing.
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So, yeah.
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And the worst, frankly, might not even be China.
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The ones that will be affected the most are those who are not ready for this.
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Multiple times during his campaign, Donald Trump said falsely that Taiwan stole the United
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States chip industry, and he also said that the CHIPS Act was a bad deal, threatening
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to kill it entirely.
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If Trump were to put high tariffs on Taiwan's chip industry, what kind of consequences could
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we see?
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The most immediate will be accelerating foreign direct investment, greenfield investment into
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the U.S. to produce in the U.S., but at the same time, we also don't know whether the
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CHIPS Act will be maintained, whether there will be carrots.
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Maybe Trump is, for me, in his world, there are only sticks, there are no carrots.
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That's why I think he doesn't think highly of IRA or the CHIPS Act, because those are
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carrots.
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So maybe if he lifts those carrots, i.e. the subsidies, and it's only about imposing tariffs,
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you still go, because tariffs are detrimental if you produce in Taiwan.
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In the incidence of high tariffs on Taiwan's advanced semiconductors, what happens to the
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global supply chain of semiconductors?
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I actually don't think Trump is going to impose tariffs of any relevance to AI chips, because
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they are needed, and basically there's no option.
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This is the same as I was mentioning batteries or Chinese batteries into the U.S. with Biden.
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The tariffs went all the way to, what, 25 percent, not 100.
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Why?
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Because they need them.
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And Trump, at the time, I remember, excluded so many items that were needed, and he will
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be told what is needed.
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So I'm not too worried about the highest-end chips for Taiwan, but yeah, whatever his legacy,
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I mean, they're already suffering, many Taiwanese fabs, because of the Chinese competition,
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prices are plummeting of legacy chips.
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Those, I think, will face additional problems, especially if tariffs are similar between
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Taiwan and the mainland for legacy chips.
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