Trump Puts Spotlight on Korea for ‘Higher-Than-China’ Tariff

President Donald Trump pointed to South Korea as a country with more unfair tariffs against American products than China, while slamming the handing out of subsidies for foreign chipmakers like Samsung Electronics Co.

“China’s average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them, and South Korea’s average tariff is four times higher,” Trump said in a speech to a joint session of Congress. “Think of that, four times higher, and we give so much help militarily and in so many other ways to South Korea, but that’s what happens. This is happening by friend or foe.”