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The United States wants South Korea to join a coordinated push to limit China’s fast-growing share of the world shipbuilding market, Seoul’s trade ministry said on Friday, tying the request to talks over 25 % tariffs on steel, cars and other goods.
Trade Policy Director Chang Sung-gil told a parliamentary forum that U.S. negotiators “feel a sense of crisis that China’s market share is rising” and see South Korea, the No 2 shipbuilding nation, as a “strategic partner” in efforts to counter Beijing.
Washington, he said, is asking Seoul to cooperate not only in ship construction itself but in unspecified “other areas” as a precondition for deeper industrial collaboration. The Biden administration also wants South Korea to increase purchases of U.S. energy and farm products in exchange for discussing a rollback of reciprocal 25 % tariffs imposed under Section 232 in 2018.
China’s foreign ministry urged both allies to avoid deals that harm third-party interests. “No agreement or negotiation should harm the interests of third parties,” spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters in Beijing on Friday.
The rivalry comes as China has captured more than 50 % of the global order book for new vessels, while South Korea holds roughly one-third, according to Clarkson Research Service data. The U.S. builds few commercial ships but fears Chinese dominance could give Beijing leverage over critical maritime supply chains.
South Korean officials say any pact must balance national sensitivities about importing additional U.S. farm goods—always a contentious issue in Seoul—and protect the domestic steel industry, which faces the same U.S. tariffs it has lobbied to remove.
Industry analysts expect the talks to intensify ahead of a possible summit later this year, but warn that aligning on both trade and strategic objectives will be difficult. “Seoul relies heavily on Chinese components even as it competes for hull orders,” said Park Jin-woo, a logistics professor at Korea Maritime University. “Decoupling at the shipyard gate will not be straightforward.”
Neither the U.S. Trade Representative’s office nor South Korea’s industry ministry has publicly commented on the substance of the private discussions.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
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The 7th Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan has concluded in Russia with participants issuing a joint statement heavily hinting at a joint opposition to any foreign military infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges, and his lawyer said he would file a barrage of legal challenges to the first prosecution by the Justice Department against one of President Donald Trump's political enemies.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to attend a ministerial meeting in Paris on Thursday with representatives of Europe, the Arab world and other nations to discuss Gaza's post-conflict transition, according to three diplomatic sources.
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