Veeco Wants LED Duties Expanded
Though the vast majority of the nearly 3,000 comments in docket USTR-2018-0026 opposed a third tranche of tariffs on Chinese goods over intellectual property disputes, Veeco Instruments supports some proposed duties on “indicator panels incorporating LCDs or LEDs,” it commented,…
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posted Sunday. Veeco also wants U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to impose duties on more LED-related goods not currently proposed, said a document redacted to hide “business confidential” information. But it once identified the company, and a revised document posted Tuesday no longer did. The company had about $485 million in 2017 revenue, mainly through the sales of semiconductor process equipment used to produce LEDs and other components, it had reported. Luke Meisner, the Schagrin Associates lawyer who filed the comments, declined comment.