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Trump medication officials signed a last reciprocal commercialized statement that confirmed a 15% U.S. tariff complaint for imports from Taiwan, portion committing Taiwan to a docket for eliminating oregon lowering tariffs connected astir each U.S. goods.
The papers released by the U.S. Trade Representative's bureau connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) besides commits Taiwan to importantly boost purchases of U.S. goods from 2025 done 2029, including $44.4 cardinal of liquefied earthy gas and crude oil, $15.2 cardinal of civilian craft and engines, $25.2 cardinal of power grid instrumentality and generators, marine and steelmaking equipment.
The statement adds technical connection and circumstantial details to a commercialized model woody archetypal reached successful January that chopped tariffs connected Taiwanese goods, including from its powerhouse semiconductor industries, to 15% from the 20% initially imposed by Mr. Trump. That puts Taiwan on an adjacent footing with its closest Asian export competitors, South Korea and Japan.
The January statement included a pledge by Taiwan that its companies would put $250 cardinal to boost accumulation of semiconductors, vigor and artificial quality in the U.S., including $100 cardinal already committed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. The Taiwan authorities would warrant different $250 cardinal successful U.S. investments, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.
The last connection did not supply further details on those investments, but said Taiwan's typical bureau successful the U.S. would collaborate with U.S. authorities to facilitate further caller greenfield and brownfield investments "in strategical high-technology manufacturing sectors, including AI, semiconductors, and precocious electronics."
The woody volition instantly destruct Taiwan's tariffs of up to 26% connected galore U.S. cultivation imports, including beef, dairy and corn. But immoderate tariffs, including the existent 40% tariff connected pork belly and 32% connected ham, volition lone autumn to 10%, according to the tariff schedule.
The U.S. said nether the deal, Taiwan volition region non-tariff barriers connected centrifugal vehicles and judge U.S. car information standards arsenic good arsenic those connected aesculapian devices and pharmaceuticals.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said successful a connection that the statement volition boost export opportunities for U.S. farmers, ranchers, fishermen, workers, and manufacturers.
"This statement besides builds connected our longstanding economical and commercialized narration with Taiwan and volition importantly heighten the resilience of our proviso chains, peculiarly successful high-technology sectors," Mr. Greer added.
For the archetypal 11 months of 2025, the U.S. commercialized shortage with Taiwan ballooned to $126.9 cardinal from $73.7 cardinal for each of 2024, mostly owed to the ample summation successful imports of high-end AI chips from Taiwan, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
