Korean chipmakers not immediately affected by US tariffs on Chinese products
Apr 5, 2018
Korean semiconductors manufactured in China are not subject to US tariffs, but there is still a possibility that they will be affected as components in China's finished products, industry sources said Thursday.A list of Chinese products subject to tariffs announced by the US Trade Representative a day earlier includes non-memory chips, according to the sources. Both Samsung Electronics and SK hynix produce memory chips at their plants in China.Samsung last year put out a monthly average of 450,0