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Green tech and chips will remain key battlegrounds

Several advanced economies have raised tariffs on imports of green technologies and semiconductors from China to address their growing trade deficits in these goods and tackle a perceived strategic weakness. As long as the process is gradual, this presents an opportunity for alternative suppliers in the US bloc such as Korea. But a lurch towards isolationism threatens to delay the green transition.

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