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By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee is visiting North America in his first high-profile trip after serving jail time for bribery, with a decision imminent on the company’s planned $17 billion U.S. chip plant. Lee left Seoul on Sunday and his trip to Canada and the United States is expected to coincide with a decision on the location of the new plant, Yonhap and other local media said. A site in Texas’ Williamson County, near the city of Taylor, offered the better incentives package among various sites Samsung has been considering for the new chip plant t…