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No Japanese hydrogen fluoride makes way into Korea in Aug after export curb
No hydrogen fluoride, one of the three chemicals under strict export regulations by Japan, arrived in South Korea last month while imports jumped six-fold from Taiwan, data from customs office showed. Japanese exports to Korea of the chemical used to clean circuits in the chipmaking process used to average 3,000 tons a month prior to […]
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Japan allows first material exports to South Korea since curbs
TOKYO — The Japanese government has given the green light for exports of a semiconductor manufacturing material to South Korea, the first such approval since Tokyo tightened controls on the products in July. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry determined after a review that there is no risk the material will be used for military equipment. Hiroshige […]
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S. Korean firms suddenly scrambling
Sunday marked one month since the Japanese government tightened controls on exports to South Korea of three items, including hydrogen fluorides used in semiconductor production. So far, there has been no noticeable impact on production or corporate performance in either Japan or South Korea, yet South Korean firms are moving to increase their stocks of […]
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Seoul-Tokyo relations are at a crossroads
Senior government officials and presidential aides said Sunday South Korea-Japan relations are at a crossroads, and vowed to reduce the country’s reliance on Japanese imports by investing 1 trillion won to localize key industrial components. “South Korea-Japan relations are at a major crossroads as Japan’s decision to remove South Korea from its list of trusted […]
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Defying pushback, Japan set to remove South Korea from ‘white list’ countries
The Cabinet on Friday is expected to approve phase two of tighter export control measures against South Korea, brushing off pleas by both Seoul and Washington to halt further actions that could escalate tensions and rattle alliances. Nearly a month after Tokyo imposed stricter rules on the export of three chemicals — fluorinated polyimide, hydrogen […]
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South Korean chip giants face ‘strangling’ from Japanese export curbs
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean chipmakers are hitting a dead end in their quest to find alternatives for key Japanese materials that have been slapped with export restrictions, raising the prospect of major disruption to their operations in the coming months. Japan is now requiring special approval for sales of three high-tech materials, including two […]
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The Japan-Korea Semiconductor Flap
South Korean companies (Samsung and SK Hynix) produce about 17% of the world’s semiconductors. To manufacture these, they’re dependent on imports of Japanese hydrogen fluoride gas, fluorinated polyimide, and photoresists. Japanese firms control 90% of the polyimide market needed for screen applications, so the relationship between these neighboring prosperous northeast Asian countries is crucial to […]
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What’s Driving Japan’s Trade Restrictions on South Korea?
Since the 1980s, countries around the world have bought into the free trade ideology and liberalized trade. Even after the United States, the traditional leader of the global free trade regime, dramatically rejected the benefits of international cooperation by pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Japan stepped up to keep the momentum going for […]
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Japan-Korea trade row to grow with new Tokyo export limits
TOKYO (AP) — Antagonisms between South Korea and Japan are already at the boiling point. They’re bound to deepen with Tokyo’s plan to expand controls over exports of sensitive materials by dropping its neighbor from a list of 27 countries granted preferential trade status. The decision, expected soon, will ripple across the high-tech sector, further […]
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An Old Feud Between American Allies Rattles Tech Giants’ Supply Chains
Spat could threaten availability of Apple’s iPhones, Amazon’s cloud-computing data servers and the inventory of many internet-connected gadgets Protestors hold up placards reading ‘No Abe!’ during a rally denouncing Japan for its recent trade restrictions against South Korea, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, July 20. Photo: jung yeon-je/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images SEOUL—A trade feud […]
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