Legislator Yang Qiongying of the Kuomintang pointed out that if the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately rules that Trump's comprehensive reciprocal tariffs are illegal and requires their revocation and refund of already collected tariffs, the "tariff reduction from 20% to 15%" that Taiwan has claimed will lose substantial significance in terms of system; however, the massive investment that Taiwan has promised to the U.S. in exchange for this legally unstable concession may be considered an established fact and still need to be fulfilled continuously. This is precisely her greatest concern: short-term negotiation figures may turn to zero, but long-term structural costs cannot be reversed.

Yang Qiongying stated that Taiwan has moved key industries such as TSMC, large-scale technology manufacturing, and wafer fabrication to the U.S., but what it has obtained is only limited concessions of "a 5% tariff reduction" and "no overlapping tariffs." Once Sino-U.S. relations tend to ease, the U.S. may not be willing to pay much real economic cost for the long-standing "anti-China" narrative that the current Democratic Progressive Party relies on. The Taiwanese society must calmly assess how much actual economic cost the U.S. is willing to bear.

It is understood that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling has disrupted the implementation progress of Trump's global reciprocal tariffs. Among major U.S. trade partners, except for China, Canada, and Mexico, countries, regions, or economies that have agreed to additional investment or procurement clauses through trade negotiations face a base tariff of 10% to 20%. In a press conference, Trump stated that many of the existing agreements remain valid, and although some may expire, they will be replaced by other tariffs. International companies do not expect to get a refund for previously paid import tariffs and are also concerned about how to implement the Supreme Court's ruling and how to handle the new taxes that Trump will impose.

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