Japan to lift tariffs on S. Korean Hynix computer chips: report

TOKYO, April 13 (Yonhap) -- Japan has decided to lift punitive tariffs on
computer chips made by South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc., in a move expected
to settle a three-year-old trade dispute between the two countries, a report said
Monday.

Japan's Kyodo News service quoted Japanese government officials as saying that
Tokyo will remove the tariffs that were imposed on Hynix, the world's
second-largest memory chip maker, in January 2006.
Japan had argued that Hynix received subsidies from the South Korean government
in 2001 and 2002 in violation of fair trade in the Japanese market.
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