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US trade-law provision under which the forced-labor investigation concluded with a 12.5% tariff on Korea and an overproduction investigation remains pending.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Kim Jung-kwan left for the United States on the 16th, a day after President Lee dismissed top negotiator Yeo Han-koo. The first project and the tariff ceiling are both unresolved.
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A House report, a senator's letter to the US trade representative and talk of fresh duties on South Korea have turned one company's data-breach penalty into alliance business, though nobody has yet published what the penalty costs.
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Section 338 of the Tariff Act has never been aimed at Canada before. The carve-outs, not the headline rate, show what Washington thinks it can afford to tax.
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Refunded IEEPA duties are landing in retailers' accounts as lump sums, but at Home Depot inflation and acquisition mix consumed most of the benefit before it reached the margin line.
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Korea's trade minister flew to Washington with the first project still unannounced. The arithmetic of an already-levied 12.5% tariff explains why the calendar is now a pricing problem.
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