The government is pushing to impose anti-dumping duties of up to 19.85% on industrial robots from Japan and China.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources Trade Commission said on the 26th that it held the 471st Trade Commission meeting and reviewed and approved the final determination of the anti-dumping investigation with this content. The investigation was requested in March last year by HD Hyundai Robotics, a domestic industrial robot corporation.
Those surveyed are industrial robots with four or more axes and a payload of 6–600 kg in the vertical articulated type, used in various industrial processes such as automobile body assembly and welding, automated logistics sorting, and metal processing. The products have been subject to provisional anti-dumping duties of 21.17–43.6% since November last year.
The Trade Commission issued a final affirmative determination, recognizing dumping in industrial robot products from Japan and China and injury to the domestic industry caused by dumped imports. Accordingly, it decided to recommend to the Ministry of Economy and Finance the imposition of anti-dumping duties of 17.45–18.64% on Japanese products and 15.96–19.85% on Chinese products.
A government official said, "This measure is expected to resolve damage to the domestic industry caused by unfair imports and to maintain the production base for industrial robots, contributing to securing supply chain stability for demand-side corporations."
Meanwhile, the Trade Commission also received reports on the initiation of four investigations, including an interim review on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from China and alleged patent infringements related to lithium secondary battery electric vehicles.