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US ups the DRAM anti-dumping stakes

Taiwanese makers hit by massive tariff hikes

The US plans to hike anti-dumping duties as high as 69 per cent on Taiwanese DRAM makers. Etron Technology will shoulder the biggest cost hike, with duties raised to 69 per cent from five per cent, according to Eurotrademag. The US Commerce Department also plans to up taxes on Mosel Vitelic to 35.6 per cent from 30.9 per cent, and on Nan Ya Technology to 14.2 per cent from 9.03 per cent. Duties on Vanguard will be cut to 8.2 per cent from 10.3 per cent. The US International Trade Commission is expected to reach a final decision on the matter next month, in what has turned into a tit-for-tat tariff game between the US and Taiwan. This will give DRAM vendors another issue to contend with -- according to a study by Semico Research, they will struggle with allocation over the new few months. Manufacturers will be trying to meet demand without the luxury of new fabs. The Rocky DRAM Roadmap: PC and Price Trends report said new fab announcements were expected by the second half of 2000. It stated that the future of RDRAM remained undecided, considering its dependence on chipset availability. And it predicted SDRAM 133MHz, followed by DDR DRAM, to be the logical progression after SDRAM PC100. However, Semico believed SDRAM would continue to be the lynch-pin in the market. ®

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