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To: jackmore who wrote (32068)	10/14/1999 4:03:00 PM
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U.S. Raises Duties On Taiwan Chips (10/14/99, 1:32 p.m. ET) By Jack Robertson, Semiconductor Business News The U.S. Department of Commerce assessed final DRAM dumping duties against Taiwan DRAM makers, ranging from 8.21 percent to 35.58 percent. Dumping duties were set at 69 percent against a Taiwan DRAM design house. Mosel Vitelic was hit with a 35.58 percent dumping tariff, up from the preliminary 30.89 percent duties assessed against the company last May. Nan Ya Technology was assessed a 14.18 percent penalty, up from its 9.03 percent preliminary duty. Vanguard International was handed an 8.21 percent penalty, down from a preliminary duty of 10.36 percent, the Department of Commerce said on Wednesday. Etron, a DRAM chip design company, was hit with a 69 percent penalty, up from 4.96 percent. The Department of Commerce said the vastly higher dumping duty was due to Etron's failure to respond to the agency's request for some critical cost data. All other Taiwan DRAM makers were assessed a 21.35 percent penalty tariff. Included in this group are silicon foundries, such as Winbond Electronics and PowerChip Semiconductor, that sell DRAMs under their own label as well as provide wafer-processing service for Japanese memory vendors. It also includes ProMOS Technologies, a joint venture between Mosel Vitelic and Infineon Technologies of Munich, Germany. Taiwan producers have already adjusted their strategies to cope with dumping duties, since they have been forced to post bond for the extra tariff on shipments from the Department of Commerce's preliminary decision in May. Japanese vendors using Taiwan fabs -- Toshiba, Mitsubishi, and Fujitsu -- have largely avoided the duties by shipping DRAMs to the United States from their Japanese fabs and selling from U.S.-based fabs. The Taiwan DRAM case now goes to the U.S. International Trade Commission for a final determination on whether the U.S. industry has been injured. A public hearing will be held at the ITC at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 19. Micron Technology, which filed the dumping complaint, and attorneys representing the Taiwan DRAM makers, are scheduled to make oral arguments at the hearing. The ITC is tentatively slated to vote on Nov. 18 on a final determination on whether the U.S. industry was injured. While the U.S. dumping case proceeds against the Taiwan companies, Micron and other U.S. DRAM suppliers face a DRAM dumping penalty in Taiwan. The Taiwan government is slated to make its final decision on a preliminary 61.85 percent dumping duty assessed against Micron and other U.S. DRAM producers. Micron chairman Steve Appleton has called Taiwan's dumping case against U.S. suppliers a retaliatory move. He also said Micron will simply avoid any duties by shipping DRAMs to Taiwan from fabs in other parts of the world. techweb.com