Strategic High-tech Commodities

Country / jurisdiction: Chinese Taipei · Year: 2012 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

Chinese Taipei maintains a list of strategic high-tech commodities which involves export controls to Russian, Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syrian and Sudan. The list takes into account of dual-use goods and technology, general military goods and specific strategic goods to the restricted countries.

The exportation of the following goods to Iran is prohibited: electronics devices including mineral ores,  semiconductors, circuit, resistors and chips, photovoltaic parts, battery cells, machinery parts, pumps and furnaces, automobile motors etc.

The exportation of the following goods to Russian and Belarus is prohibited: electronics devices including semiconductors, circuit, resistors and chips, machinery parts, pumps and furnaces, automobile motors etc.

Export restrictions to China concern 12 categories of equipment used to manufacture semiconductors: chemical mechanical polishers, photo-resist strippers, photo-resist developers, rapid thermal processors, deposition apparatuses, cleaning equipment, dryers, electron microscopes, etchers, ion implanters, photo-resist coaters, and lithography equipment.

The export control list of dual-use goods and technologies divides the controlled goods into 10 categories, including: nuclear energy materials and facilities, special materials and related equipment, material processing procedures, electronics,

Export permit from the respective authorities is required for exportation of any strategic high-tech commodities to the restricted countries.

Official source: https://www.trade.gov.tw/Pages/Detail.aspx?nodeID=4433&pid=725764