South Korea to Withdraw WTO Complaint Over Certain Japanese Export Controls
South Korea will withdraw its World Trade Organization complaint over Japan's export controls on fluorinated polymide, hydrogen fluoride and resist following Japan's finding that South Korea enhanced its export control authority, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's announced March…
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16. METI said it will relax controls over the exports of the three items to South Korea and remind domestic companies it is their responsibility to check the end-users of their products. METI made the announcement following an export control policy dialogue with South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, held March 14-16. The issue stemmed from a years old Japan-South Korea export control dispute, which included Japan removing South Korea from its list of trusted trading partners in 2019 (see 1907010020, 1908080026 and 1910240032).