📱Executive Order 14257 invokes IEEPA for 25% South Korea duties

Twenty-five percent duties on Korean semiconductors, batteries, and automotive parts force American manufacturers to find alternative suppliers while increasing production costs across multiple industries. Companies like Apple, Tesla, and General Motors face supply chain disruption while Korean firms redirect sales to other international markets, creating permanent shifts in global manufacturing relationships.

Military alliance obligations conflict with trade warfare when America imposes tariffs on countries that provide strategic military bases and defense cooperation. Korean defense contributions to American security interests get undermined by economic retaliation that damages alliance solidarity while creating diplomatic tension between military and trade policy objectives.

Legislative branch faces nearly impossible threshold to reverse presidential trade actions when emergency powers grant executives sweeping authority over international commerce. Constitutional separation of powers fails when congressional oversight requires supermajorities that cannot be achieved in polarized political environments, concentrating trade authority entirely in executive hands.

Technology components essential for modern electronics face crushing tariffs that raise costs for smartphones, computers, and electric vehicles that Americans purchase regularly. Families pay thousands more for technology products while inflation accelerates from import cost increases that ripple through entire consumer electronics and automotive sectors affecting everyone's cost of living.