Chip-ping away at tariffs the US way

TO say that it is no fun being the chief executive officer of a semiconductor company in Malaysia these days is to state the obvious.

Planning and forecasting are becoming too challenging. If you had heaved a sigh of relief when Malaysia secured a 19% tariff from the United States, it was shortlived, as soon after that, US president Donald Trump started talking about a sector-specific 100% tariff on semiconductor goods coming into the United States.