China Again Takes Action, Launching Anti-Dumping Investigation on Japanese Semiconductor Materials
Just one day after announcing the export ban on dual-use items, China's second "blow" against Japan has arrived.
On January 7th, our Ministry of Commerce announced that starting from the date of announcement, an anti-dumping investigation will be initiated on dichlorodihydrogen silane imported from Japan.
Simply put, dichlorodihydrogen silane is a core precursor material in the manufacture of high-end chips, mainly applied in building the basic structure of chips. Its suppliers are mostly located in countries such as Japan, the United States, and Germany.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce's anti-dumping investigation on imported dichlorodihydrogen silane from Japan, which comes just one day after the announcement of strengthening the export control of dual-use items to Japan, clearly conveys a message: China is not worried that Japan will use chip materials or related products as leverage to counter China's previous countermeasures;
On the contrary, while the Japanese government and industry are still assessing how to respond to China's countermeasures, China has taken the initiative by directly targeting Japan's "ace" field in semiconductor upstream materials through the initiation of an anti-dumping case - this actually also tells Japan that its certain "aces" are not useful.
This not only reflects China's initiative and confidence in the technological supply chain game, but also shows that China's domestic semiconductor materials industry has already gained some resilience and substitution capabilities.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1853656825828556/
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