Taiwan’s government will soon look at whether it needs to help its domestic industry over threats by President Donald Trump to put tariffs on semiconductors, Premier Cho Jung-tai said on Wednesday.

Premier Cho Jung-tai said the island’s government would look for ways to maintain the island’s ‘leading position’.

While the tariffs aim to boost domestic manufacturing, they are unlikely to divert production from Asia immediately.

Though the United States is the global leader in designing chips, the vast majority of chip production happens overseas, particularly in U.S.-ally Taiwan.

Donald Trump called for tariffs on foreign computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals from places like Taiwan in the near future.

Semiconductor business between Taiwan and the United States is a "win-win" model for both sides given the high level of complementarity, the island's economy ministry said on Tuesday responding to tariff threats from U.

Taiwan is the world’s biggest producer of high-end computer processors and semiconductors. The newly-minted Trump administration has announced its latest series of tariff plans, including a “25 percent,

Taiwan's government has been swift to respond to the talk of huge tariffs by the recently inaugurated 47th president of the United States.