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title: "Beijing will impose at least one new retaliatory trade measure targeting South Korean firms within three months, using Seoul's new export licensing regime for advanced chips as the pretext."
description: "South Korea has just added high-performance AI semiconductors and advanced chipmaking equipment to its strategic goods list, aligning its controls with the US, EU and Japan. China has already warned K"
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# Beijing will impose at least one new retaliatory trade measure targeting South Korean firms within three months, using Seoul's new export licensing regime for advanced chips as the pretext.

- **Made:** 1 Sep 2026
- **By:** Marco Law
- **Market:** South Korea
- **Outcome:** Unresolved

South Korea has just added high-performance AI semiconductors and advanced chipmaking equipment to its strategic goods list, aligning its controls with the US, EU and Japan. China has already warned Korean companies against re-exporting rare-earth-derived goods to American defence firms and tightened mineral licensing, so a move that visibly locks Seoul into the Western export-control bloc gives Beijing fresh justification to single out Korean firms, likely through customs delays or a new anti-dumping probe.

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- 26 Oct 2026 · [South Korea’s steel market pushes back on China yet harder.](https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/187/south-korea-s-steel-market-pushes-back-on-china-yet-harder) · Unresolved

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