WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will seek "separate" semiconductor tariff agreements for "separate countries," a U.S. official said Friday, after the United States and Taiwan reached a deal on the chip levies this week. "Separate agreements for separate countries," a U.S. official said, responding to a question from Yonhap News Agency regarding whether the deal with Taiwan would set a standard for chip tariffs, or the U.S. will conduct separate negotiations with other countries for the sectoral tariffs. The official's remarks came a day after the U.S. Commerce Department released a fact sheet about a trade and investment deal between the United states and Taiwan, which outlined a bilateral agreement on semiconductor tariffs. According to the fact sheet, Taiwanese companies building new U.S. semiconductor capacity may import up to 2.5 times that planned capacity without paying sectoral duties during the approved construction period. Taiwanese companies that have completed new chip production projects in the U.S. will still be able to import 1.5 times their new