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Japan's Export Regulations For a year, our industry has continued to reduce our dependence on Japan. It is an analysis that there is still a long way to go while seeking other suppliers and localizing some materials and parts.

Reporter Labor Kyu covered.

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There are three items that require Japanese companies to obtain individual permission from the Japanese government when exporting to Korea.


There were many concerns that Japan, which accounts for 90% of the world's supply, will hit core industries such as semiconductors in the future.

The companies in the emergency went to localization and search for other suppliers, but struggled to match quality and profitability.

[Chey Tae-won / SK Chairman (last July): and issues of quality, can be written where much and I think that purity is much Coruña, hydrogen fluoride fit (jegakgak a) the process can go gradually to come out one by one]

Fortunately, the United States A rapid achievement has been achieved in diversifying supply lines, such as attracting investments from DuPont's EUV photoresist domestic plants.

The Japanese government, faced with complaints from its own industry, did not spread to the level of concern it had, including easing restrictions on photoresist exports to Samsung.

[Seongyunmo / industry generally Minister (month 11): It was a short period in close collaboration whilst businesses and governments was a clear progress in the supply stabilized around the 'export control three items']

white list exclusion and non-strategic The damage to SMEs due to the so-called'catchall' regulation, which includes materials, is still not great.

[Vice-president of auto parts company: A Japanese company joined Catchall (ICP·Japan government certification) and was not regulated at all. The order has never been delayed.]

However, in the case of localization of materials, it still takes more time to replace imports even in designating national R&D projects and supporting equipment investment.

Trade experts say South Korea is still excluded from Japan's export-preferred white list, so it is a problem that the Japanese government can always voluntarily control exports of certain items as the situation changes.

(Video Editing: Jong-Tae Kim) 

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