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The won weakened back toward 1,400 per dollar, closing at 1,388.2 on July 21 after a sell-off tied to planned US reciprocal tariffs starting August 1. The dollar index rose to 98.48 over the week, its first return to the 98 range in about a month.
Expected US tariffs and a firmer dollar raise Korea's import costs and inflation risk, which pushes the won weaker and makes dollar-priced feed imports more expensive for Korean buyers.
koreajoongangdaily.comYONHAP, NEWS1Jul 21, 2025Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
