USDA’s April 2025 market update says the seasonal tariff on US chipping potatoes reaches zero in 2026 under the US–Korea free-trade agreement. It describes an import market serving snack-food processors.
This is evidence about market conditions, not a calculation of farms that will close or a guaranteed export gain. An estimate of displacement needs comparable production, trade and farm-area data.
Correction, 11 November 2026: the earlier $150-million framing, unverified import totals and farm-displacement arithmetic have been removed, together with unresolved source markers. The article no longer presents those inferences as established outcomes.
