Domestic LED three types of equipment imported parts exempt from customs duties

In March 2012, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the General Administration of Customs, and the four ministries and commissions of the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued the Circular on Adjusting the Catalogue of Import Tax Policies for Major Technical Equipment (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). The “Notice” shall adjust the catalogue of relevant equipment and products, the list of imported key spare parts and raw materials, and the list of equipment and products that are not exempted from taxation for import taxation policies for major technical equipment, and shall implement it from April 1, 2012 onwards.

In the adjustment of tariff-free and import-link value-added tax catalogs, 28 major technical equipments have been added, and three major emerging industries such as marine equipment, solar energy applications, and LED equipment have become the most obvious benefits.

The Semiconductor Light Emitting Diode (LED) production equipment selected in the "National Major Support Equipment for Development and Equipment Catalogue (Revised in 2012)" is a newly added category 3 equipment: Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and Plasma Etching machines and indium tin oxide (ITO) sputtering stations are shown in Table 1. In accordance with the “Notice”, as of April 1, 2012, all domestic enterprises that meet the requirements for the production of these three types of equipment or products, it is indeed necessary to import the relevant key components and raw materials (as shown in Table 2). , Exemption from customs duties and import link value-added tax.

The significance of localization of equipment is very great. There is no breakthrough in key equipment and there is no basis for independent innovation. Wang Zhanguo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that Chinese high-tech companies often invest 70% to 80% of their investment in the introduction of equipment. If they can use equipment manufactured by China, the cost is expected to gradually decrease. Cost-effectiveness can be improved.

LED is a technology-guided industry, especially technology and capital-intensive chip manufacturing, which requires high-end process equipment to provide support. However, similar to the “bottleneck” under the semiconductor investment boom, there is still a problem of speed matching between equipment R&D and industrial expansion. Especially in the high-end equipment sector, most equipment still needs to rely on imports.

Taking MOCVD as an example, the current technological development trend of MOCVD equipment is scale and intelligence. The substrate will transition from 2 inches to 6 inches; a single machine realizes multiple reaction chambers, multiple pieces of synchronous operation, intelligent operation and reduce human influence. These industry technology trends will undoubtedly raise the threshold for China's development of this equipment, while also creating new opportunities.

China's "863" plan has always supported the localization of LED major equipment. The four ministries and commissions exempted domestically-made LED equipment from the tariffs of related parts and components and import value-added tax, which is undoubtedly a localization of LED equipment from another level. stand by.