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Dear all,

The news has been worrying and dizzying. The big news this week has been President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of tariffs on all of the United States’s trading partners. Taiwan was not spared—Trump levied a 32% tariff on Taiwanese goods. President Lai Ching-te assembled an emergency meeting that met for over 100 hours and announced a series of measures—Taiwan will not implement any retaliatory tariffs, and the President hopes to move towards an eventual goal of “zero tariffs.”