By David Shepardson and David Lawder<\/p>\n
MANASSAS, Virginia, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday there were no imminent new U.S. \u200ctariffs expected to be imposed on semiconductors, but that it was important \u200cto protect the sector with duties to facilitate reshoring of chip production.<\/p>\n
Greer, speaking at a Micron Technology \u200bmemory chip plant expansion project in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, said that any tariffs USTR’s long-awaited Section 232 national security investigation aimed at protecting the U.S. semiconductor sector needed to be properly sequenced to promote U.S. output.<\/p>\n
“Having tariffs on semiconductors is really important. \u200cWhat’s even more important than \u2060having protection for facilities like this is making sure we do it on the right timing and in the right amount,” \u2060Greer said.<\/p>\n
“There was not an immediate tariff coming,” he said.<\/p>\n
In January, the Trump administration noted the United States fully manufactures only approximately 10% of the chips it requires, making it \u200bheavily \u200breliant on foreign supply chains.<\/p>\n
“These are complex supply \u200bchains. We’ve seen offshoring of \u200csemiconductors for decades,” Greer said, adding the government wants to ensure there are no immediate tariffs on companies that are producing semiconductors, and will allow companies to import an unspecified amount during that “reshoring phase.”<\/p>\n
In June, Micron said it was expanding its U.S. investments by $30 billion. The company said its planned investments will total $200 billion.<\/p>\n
Micron said on \u200cFriday it had begun 1\u2011alpha DRAM wafer manufacturing \u200bin Manassas, Virginia, of the most advanced memory \u200bchip produced in the U.S.<\/p>\n
DRAM chips \u200bare components in personal computing, cars, industrial operations, wireless communications \u200cand AI, and Micron’s High-Bandwidth Memory is \u200bcritical for enabling new \u200bAI models.<\/p>\n
In December 2024, the U.S. Commerce Department under former President Joe Biden finalized a nearly $6.2 billion government subsidy for Micron to produce semiconductors in \u200bNew York and Idaho, \u200cone of the largest government awards to chip companies under the $52.7 billion \u200b2022 CHIPS and Science Act.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by David Shepardson, writing by David Lawder, \u200bEditing by Franklin Paul and Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By David Shepardson and David Lawder MANASSAS, Virginia, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":816230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,331317,52208,79,72481,44868,44863,1593,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-816229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-david-lawder","tag-david-shepardson","tag-economy","tag-jamieson-greer","tag-memory-chip","tag-micron-technology","tag-semiconductors","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116622388519591898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}