Then-Folks Energy Occasion presidential candidate Yoon Suk Yeol examines industrial robots at HD Hyundai Robotics‘ manufacturing facility in Daegu on this December 2021 picture. Joint Press Corps
HD Hyundai Robotics and 4 different Korean industrial robotic makers stated Monday that they filed anti-dumping complaints final Friday in opposition to Chinese language and Japanese producers of articulated robots with a minimum of 4 axes.
They took this motion after international robotics firms boosted their market share in Korea by providing excessively low costs to automakers and different manufacturing corporations.
„As we began struggling harm throughout the first half of final 12 months, we determined to file anti-dumping complaints in opposition to industrial robots imported from China and Japan,“ an HD Hyundai Robotics official stated.
Japan’s Fanuc and Germany’s Kuka, now underneath the management of China’s Midea, have more and more centered on the Korean market in recent times, seemingly in response to the slowdown in China’s automotive business.
Based on home robotics business officers, some Chinese language corporations even bought their industrial robots at costs practically 60 % decrease than these of Korean merchandise.
„Chinese language firms seem like dumping their merchandise into the Korean market to scale back their inventories amid the extended weakening of consumption in their very own nation,“ the HD Hyundai Robotics official stated.
The Korea Commerce Fee ought to determine whether or not to provoke an anti-dumping probe inside two months after the submitting.
If the probe begins, it’ll take three months for the fee to take provisional measures.
The ultimate choice might be made inside three months of the preliminary dedication.
In 2005, the federal government imposed anti-dumping tariffs on articulated six-axis robots from Japan’s Nachi, Kawasaki, Yaskawa, and Fanuc on the request of Hyundai Heavy Industries, which later spun off its robotics enterprise. This enterprise is now referred to as HD Hyundai Robotics.
