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๐ข”Tariff on Korea” Policy in 2025
๐ข”ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ(Tariff on Korea)” ํธ๋ผํ 2025๋
๐ข”Tariff on Korea” Policy in 2025
Below is a timeline of Donald Trump’s “Tariff on Korea” policy in 2025, focusing on his proposed tariffs targeting South Korea. This timeline is based on available information as of March 5, 2025, at 5:09 AM PST, drawing from web sources and general trends in Trumpโs trade policy statements. Since specific details about a “tariff on Korea” are still emerging and not as fully documented as policies like the tariffs on Canada, some events are projected based on patterns from his broader tariff initiatives and statements referencing South Korea.
Timeline of Trump’s “Tariff on Korea” Policy in 2025
November 7, 2024: Early Indications During Transition Period
- Event: Following his election victory, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol congratulates Trump via phone call. South Korean trade officials begin preparing for potential tariff impacts, anticipating “significant economic changes” due to Trumpโs campaign promises.
- Context: Trumpโs campaign emphasized broad tariffs on trading partners, though Korea was not explicitly singled out at this stage. The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) is noted as a potential buffer.
January 6, 2025: Refinement of Tariff Plans
- Event: Trumpโs aides signal a focus on “critical imports” as part of his tariff strategy, with South Koreaโs semiconductor and automotive industries flagged as areas of interest due to their significant U.S. market presence.
- Context: No specific tariff rate for Korea is confirmed, but the administration hints at addressing perceived trade imbalances.
February 10, 2025: Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Announced
- Event: Trump signs an executive order imposing a global 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminum imports, effective March 12, 2025, which includes South Korea.
- South Korean Response: Acting President Choi Sang-mok announces plans to negotiate with the U.S. to mitigate impacts on Korean companies, citing the KORUS FTA.
- Impact: While not a Korea-specific tariff, this marks the first direct trade action affecting South Korea under Trumpโs second term.
February 20โ28, 2025: South Korea Seeks Exemptions
- Event: South Korean industry officials visit Washington, D.C., requesting exemptions from steel, aluminum, and potential reciprocal tariffs. The U.S. and South Korea establish a working-level channel to discuss tariff issues.
- Trumpโs Position: No public commitment to exemptions, but Trump mentions tariffs on “cars, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and lumber” to be detailed “within the next month or sooner” (announced February 26, 2025), raising concerns in Seoul.
March 4, 2025: Korea Explicitly Mentioned in Congressional Address
- Event: In his first congressional speech of his second term, Trump singles out South Korea, claiming its tariffs on U.S. goods are “four times higher” than U.S. tariffs on Korean goods, despite U.S. military support. He announces plans for “reciprocal tariffs” starting April 2, 2025.
- Details:
- Trump criticizes the CHIPS Act, suggesting its repeal to reduce subsidies to Korean firms like Samsung, and ties this to trade policy.
- No specific tariff rate for Korea is detailed beyond the existing steel and aluminum tariffs, but a broader reciprocal tariff framework is foreshadowed.
- South Korean Reaction: Seoul disputes the “four times higher” claim, noting that under KORUS FTA, tariffs are largely eliminated or balanced, and calls for urgent correction of Trumpโs “misinformation.”
March 5, 2025 (Current Status): Uncertainty and Preparations
- Event: As of today, no Korea-specific tariff beyond steel and aluminum has been implemented, but Trumpโs remarks signal intent to escalate trade measures. South Korea braces for potential 25% tariffs on key exports like semiconductors and automobiles, mirroring rates applied to Canada and Mexico.
- Economic Context: Posts on X and media reports highlight growing concern among Korean businesses, with some estimating a $140 trillion won trade deficit as a motivating factor for Trump.
- Ongoing Efforts: South Korea coordinates with allies like Canada to counter Trumpโs tariff push, while exploring alternative markets to reduce U.S. dependency.
April 1, 2025 (Projected): Trade Policy Review Release
- Event: Trumpโs administration is expected to release findings from the “America First Trade Policy” review, potentially specifying tariff rates and targets for South Korea based on the March 4 speech.
- Context: This review, ordered in February, will likely shape the scope of reciprocal tariffs.
April 2, 2025 (Projected): Reciprocal Tariffs Implemented
- Event: Trump has indicated that “reciprocal tariffs” will begin on this date, potentially imposing duties on South Korean imports to match perceived imbalances. Rates could range from 10% to 25%, consistent with tariffs on other nations.
- Uncertainties: Exact targets (e.g., semiconductors, autos) and rates remain unspecified as of March 5, 2025, pending further announcements.
Key Observations
- Motivation: Trump frames South Korea as an unfair trade partner, leveraging military aid as justification for tariffs, despite the KORUS FTAโs balanced terms. His focus on semiconductors reflects broader U.S. goals to onshore critical industries.
- Economic Stakes: South Koreaโs $1 trillion+ export economy, with significant U.S. reliance (e.g., Samsungโs Texas investments), faces risks if tariffs expand beyond steel and aluminum.
- Positive Note: Trumpโs mention of a potential “White House shipbuilding division” in his March 4 speech is seen as a possible boon for Korean shipbuilders like Hyundai Heavy Industries, though tied to tariff negotiations.
This timeline reflects confirmed events up to March 5, 2025, supplemented by projections based on Trumpโs stated intentions and patterns from his tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. Since the “tariff on Korea” policy is less documented than others at this stage, some dates and details are speculative and subject to change as more information emerges.
๐ข”ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ(Tariff on Korea)” ํธ๋ผํ 2025๋
์๋๋ 2025๋ ํธ๋ผํ์ “ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ(Tariff on Korea)” ์ ์ฑ ํ์๋ผ์ธ์ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๋ฒ์ญํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ด ์๋ฌธ์ ์ด์ ๋ต๋ณ์ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. ์ด ํ์๋ผ์ธ์ 2025๋ 3์ 5์ผ ์ค์ 5:09 PST ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ํ์ธ๋ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ๋ ํธ๋ผํ์ ๋ฐ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ ์ฑ ํจํด์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
2025๋ ํธ๋ผํ์ “ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ” ์ ์ฑ ํ์๋ผ์ธ
2024๋ 11์ 7์ผ: ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ด๊ธฐ ์ ํธ
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ๋์ ์น๋ฆฌ ํ ์ค์์ด ๋ํต๋ น์ด ํธ๋ผํ์๊ฒ ์ ํ๋ก ์ถํ ์ธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ํจ. ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌด์ญ ๋น๊ตญ์ ํธ๋ผํ์ ์บ ํ์ธ ๊ณต์ฝ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ “์ค๋ํ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ๋ณํ”๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ด์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋๋น ์์.
- ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ: ํธ๋ผํ๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฌด์ญ ํํธ๋์ ๋ํ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ฝํ์ผ๋, ์ด ์์ ์์ ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธ๋์ง ์์. ํ๋ฏธ FTA(KORUS FTA)๊ฐ ์์ถฉ ์ญํ ์ ํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ.
2025๋ 1์ 6์ผ: ๊ด์ธ ๊ณํ ๊ตฌ์ฒดํ
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ํธ๋ผํ ์ธก๊ทผ๋ค์ด ๊ด์ธ ์ ๋ต์์ “ํต์ฌ ์์ ๅ”์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ๋ฉฐ, ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด์ ์๋์ฐจ ์ฐ์ ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์์ ์ค์ํ ๋ถ์ผ๋ก ์ง๋ชฉ.
- ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ: ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ด์ธ์จ์ ํ์ ๋์ง ์์์ผ๋, ๋ฌด์ญ ๋ถ๊ท ํ ํด์๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฉฐ ๋ ผ์ ์์.
2025๋ 2์ 10์ผ: ์ฒ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ์๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋ ๊ด์ธ ๋ฐํ
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ฒ ๊ฐ(25%) ๋ฐ ์๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋(10%) ์์ ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ๊ณผํ๋ ํ์ ๋ช ๋ น์ ์๋ช , 3์ 12์ผ๋ถํฐ ์ํ ์์ . ํ๊ตญ๋ ํฌํจ๋จ.
- ํ๊ตญ ๋์: ์ต์๋ชฉ ๋ํต๋ น ๊ถํ๋ํ์ด ํ๋ฏธ FTA๋ฅผ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ก ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ์์ ํตํด ํ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ์ํฅ์ ์ํํ๋ ค๊ณ ๊ณํ ๋ฐํ.
- ์ํฅ: ํ๊ตญ๋ง์ ๊ฒจ๋ฅํ ๊ด์ธ๋ ์๋์ง๋ง, ํธ๋ผํ 2๊ธฐ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฌด์ญ ์กฐ์น๋ก ํ๊ตญ์ ์ํฅ.
2025๋ 2์ 20์ผ~28์ผ: ํ๊ตญ, ๋ฉด์ ์์ฒญ
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ํ๊ตญ ์ฐ์ ๊ด๊ณ์๋ค์ด ์์ฑํด D.C.๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํด ์ฒ ๊ฐ, ์๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋ ๋ฐ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ํธ ๊ด์ธ ๋ฉด์ ๋ฅผ ์์ฒญ. ์๊ตญ์ ๊ด์ธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ ผ์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ค๋ฌด ํ์ ์ฑ๋ ์ค๋ฆฝ.
- ํธ๋ผํ ์ ์ฅ: ๋ฉด์ ์ ๋ํ ๊ณต์ ์ฝ์์ ์์ผ๋, 2์ 26์ผ “์์ผ๋ก ํ ๋ฌ ์ด๋ด ๋๋ ๋ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ” ์๋์ฐจ, ๋ฐ๋์ฒด, ์ ์ฝ, ๋ชฉ์ฌ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ฒดํํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฉฐ ์์ธ์ ์ฐ๋ ค ์ด๋.
2025๋ 3์ 4์ผ: ์ํ ์ฐ์ค์์ ํ๊ตญ ๋ช ์
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์๊ธฐ ์ฒซ ์ํ ์ฐ์ค์์ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ง๋ชฉํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๊ตฐ์ฌ ์ง์์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋๋ฏธ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ “๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ 4๋ฐฐ ๋๋ค”๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฅ. 4์ 2์ผ๋ถํฐ “์ํธ ๊ด์ธ”๋ฅผ ์ถ์งํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํ.
- ์ธ๋ถ ๋ด์ฉ:
- CHIPS ๋ฒ ํ์ง๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฉฐ ์ผ์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ํ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธ ์ถ์๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์ญ ์ ์ฑ ๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ณ.
- ์ฒ ๊ฐยท์๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ํ๊ตญ ๊ด์ธ์จ์ ๋ฐํ์ง ์์์ผ๋, ์ํธ ๊ด์ธ ํ ์๊ณ .
- ํ๊ตญ ๋ฐ์: ์์ธ์ “4๋ฐฐ ๋๋ค”๋ ์ฃผ์ฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ฐํ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฏธ FTA๋ก ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ์ฒ ํ๋๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ท ํ์ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ฐ, ํธ๋ผํ์ “์๋ชป๋ ์ ๋ณด” ์์ ์ด๊ตฌ.
2025๋ 3์ 5์ผ (ํ์ฌ): ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ๊ณผ ๋๋น
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ํ์ฌ๊น์ง ์ฒ ๊ฐยท์๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋ ์ธ ํ๊ตญ ์ ์ฉ ๊ด์ธ๋ ์ํ๋์ง ์์์ผ๋, ํธ๋ผํ ๋ฐ์ธ์ผ๋ก 25% ์์ค์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒดยท์๋์ฐจ ๊ด์ธ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ๋๋. ํ๊ตญ์ ์บ๋๋คยท๋ฉ์์ฝ์ ์ ์ฌํ ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ คํ๋ฉฐ ๋๋น ์ค.
- ๊ฒฝ์ ์ํฉ: X ๊ฒ์๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ธ๋ก ์์ ํ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ฐ๋ ค ํ์ฐ, ์ฝ 140์กฐ ์ ๋ฌด์ญ ์ ์๊ฐ ํธ๋ผํ์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ก ์ถ์ ๋จ.
- ์งํ ์ํฉ: ํ๊ตญ์ ์บ๋๋ค ๋ฑ ๋๋งน๊ตญ๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์กด๋๋ฅผ ์ค์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋์ฒด ์์ฅ ๋ชจ์.
2025๋ 4์ 1์ผ (์์ ): ๋ฌด์ญ ์ ์ฑ ๊ฒํ ๋ฐํ
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ “๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฐ์ ๋ฌด์ญ ์ ์ฑ ” ๊ฒํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ ์์ . 3์ 4์ผ ์ฐ์ค์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ์จ ๋ฐ ๋์ ๊ตฌ์ฒดํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ.
- ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ: 2์์ ์ง์๋ ์ด ๊ฒํ ๋ ์ํธ ๊ด์ธ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ ํ ์ ๋ง.
2025๋ 4์ 2์ผ (์์ ): ์ํธ ๊ด์ธ ์ํ
- ์ฌ๊ฑด: ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ์ํธ ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํ ๋ ์ง๋ก, ํ๊ตญ ์์ ํ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ ๋ถ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ. ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ฉ๋ 10~25% ์์ค ์์.
- ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ: 2025๋ 3์ 5์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค, ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋์(์: ๋ฐ๋์ฒด, ์๋์ฐจ)๊ณผ ๋น์จ์ ๋ฏธ์ .
์ฃผ์ ๊ด์ฐฐ
- ๋๊ธฐ: ํธ๋ผํ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ถ๊ณต์ ๋ฌด์ญ ํํธ๋๋ก ๊ท์ ํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ตฐ์ฌ ์ง์์ ๋น๋ฏธ๋ก ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ์ ๋นํ. ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ๊ฐ์กฐ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ํต์ฌ ์ฐ์ ๋ด์ฌํ ๋ชฉํ ๋ฐ์.
- ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ํ: ์ฐ๊ฐ 1์กฐ ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์ ์์ถ ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒดยท์๋์ฐจ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ํ๋๋๋ฉด ํฐ ํ๊ฒฉ ์์(์: ์ผ์ฑ์ ํ ์ฌ์ค ํฌ์ ๋ฑ).
- ๊ธ์ ์ ์์: 3์ 4์ผ ์ฐ์ค์์ ์ธ๊ธ๋ “๋ฐฑ์ ๊ด ์กฐ์ ๋ถ์”๋ ํ๋์ค๊ณต์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ตญ ์กฐ์ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ ์ฌ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋, ๊ด์ธ ํ์๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ.
์ด ํ์๋ผ์ธ์ 2025๋ 3์ 5์ผ๊น์ง ํ์ธ๋ ์ฌ๊ฑด๊ณผ ํธ๋ผํ์ ์๋ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ด์ธ ํจํด์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ ์ถ์ ์น๋ฅผ ํฌํจํฉ๋๋ค. “ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ธ” ์ ์ฑ ์ ์์ง ์บ๋๋ค ์ฌ๋ก๋งํผ ๊ตฌ์ฒดํ๋์ง ์์์ผ๋ฏ๋ก, ์ผ๋ถ ๋ ์ง์ ์ธ๋ถ ์ฌํญ์ ์ํฉ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ณ๋๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.