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Analysis South Korea shifts focus from tariff pledges to delivery under US pressureSeoul sends delegation to Washington as investment commitments face legal, political and commercial constraints South Korea’s decision to dispatch a working level delegation to Washington to discuss potential U.S. investment projects marks a shift from negotiating tariffs to the practical challenge of implementation in an increasingly discretionary U.S. trade environment. The move comes a day after the U.S. and Japan confirmed the first projects under their strategic investment initiative announced in July, which followed months of negotiation under the White House’s broader investment-for-tariff framework. For Seoul, the immediate task is not to replicate Tokyo’s optics but to determine how pledged capital, energy purchases and industrial cooperationcan be operationalized under domestic legal constraints while © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |





