Japan Rejects South Korean Request to Lift Export Restrictions
Japan recently rejected South Korea’s request to allow it back on Japan’s white list of trusted trading partners, according to an unofficial translation of an Aug. 21 report from South Korean daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo. The report, citing an article recently published by Japan’s Sankei Shimbun, said Japan rejected the South Korea request at a foreign ministers meeting held in Cambodia earlier this month.
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Japan in 2019 removed South Korea from the white list, which aimed at tightening restrictions on exports of certain chemicals used to make computer chips and other high-tech goods (see 1908020023, 1908080039 and 1908080026). South Korea retaliated by imposing its own set of export restrictions on Japan (see 1909190029).