The United States recently announced that it will impose additional tariffs on the remaining imports, worth approximately 300 billion dollars, and will raise tariffs by 5 percentage points on the U.S. imports from China that already have been taxed.
As trade negotiations have not come to a conclusion, attention should continue to be paid to the fact that the global economy still faces downside risks. The third factor is the outlook for the world semiconductor market. Deceleration in world semiconductor sales became notable from mid-2018.