U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will invest $100 billion in the United States to help boost chip-making capacity.

With the investment, TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, plans to build advanced facilities to manufacture semiconductors.

The announcement comes as Trump continues to unleash a series of tariff threats against major U.S. trading partners while calling on foreign manufacturers to build factories in his country.

He has repeatedly complained that Taiwan took the semiconductor business from the United States.

In 2024, the largest U.S. trade deficit in goods was with China, followed by Mexico, Vietnam, Ireland, Germany, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, according to official U.S. data.

==Kyodo

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