Trade commission proposes antidumping tariffs on Japanese, Chinese industrial robots

Korea's trade watchdog said Thursday it has decided to impose antidumping tariffs of up to 19.85 percent on industrial robots imported from Japan and China, citing damage to the domestic industry. The Korea Trade Commission (KTC) will recommend to the finance minister the imposition of antidumping duties ranging from 17.45 to 18.64 percent on Japanese products and 15.96 to 19.85 percent on Chinese products, according to its officials. The move follows a petition filed in March 2025 by HD Hyundai Robotics, which alleged that companies including Japan's Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric, as well as China-based Kuka Robotics Guangdong, ABB Engineering Shanghai and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, sold vertically articulated industrial robots with four or more axes in Korea at unfairly low prices. The KTC has been imposing provisional antidumping duties of 21.17 to 43.6 percent on the products since November. "We have conducted an investigation since May, including overseas on-site inspections and visits to domestic demand industries, and determined the level of antidumping duties based on our findings,"

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