Declaration of government ordinance exempt from South Korea

Last week, a government decree was announced on the 7th that the government decided to exclude South Korea from the preferential countries for export control. As a result, the scope of export control for South Korea will become stricter from 28th this month.

At the Cabinet meeting on the 2nd of this month, the government decided to amend the government ordinance to exclude South Korea from the target countries for preferential treatment to simplify export control.

In response to this, on the morning of the 7th, the official gazette containing the government ordinance was issued on the bulletin board of the National Printing Bureau in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and the government ordinance was promulgated.

In the text of a government ordinance that revises part of the Export Trade Control Order, it is stated that “Korean” will be removed from the list of preferential countries, which will come into effect on the 28th of this month after being promulgated on the 7th.

Since then, Japanese exporters, as a general rule, need to have separate licenses for each export contract when exporting strictly controlled items such as machine tools and carbon fiber to South Korea. The

In addition, a wide range of items other than food and timber may require individual permission if the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry determines that it may be used for weapons.

The exemption from the preferential countries follows the stricter export control of raw materials such as semiconductors, but the government stresses that it is not a “embargo”, and if there are no problems with the application, it is approved I am going to put out.