Legal Perspectives on Trading of Remanufactured Goods

• Main Authors: Chen Chieh, 陳捷
• Other Authors: Wang, Chen-Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80537747998733335550

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 法律學系一般生組 === 102 === Remanufacture is in fact benefit to all walk of life, given that it is a proactive way to closing the loop by product manufacturing rather than resorting to new products production. Combined with the energies and raw materials saving from the production of similar new goods, less polluting during the whole processes, and the contribution to labor and environmental issues as well, the advantage of remanufacture cannot be overlooked. Usually the used goods can be seemed as the synonym of end-of-life products, only if they are released from the customers, be it physically wore down or under the functional obsolescence. All depending on its condition after returning to the recycle sites, the procedures of product recovery applied to the used goods can vary from a range of options. Only those which contained enough residual values to be qualified as economically viable would be designated to proper recovery processes. Others were then deemed waste and subject to environmental-friendly dispositions. Along with the efforts to distinguish different kinds of wastes setting out from waste management, the remaining type of end-of-life goods assigned to relative phases within reverse logistics was largely ignored by most governments. Many so often the current state practices tend to simplified the types of end-of-life products under the single tariff nomenclature, and risk losing the value attached to the nuance in between. The separation of used goods to remanufactured goods, recovered goods, repaired goods and beyond should be adopt to the international trade system. Current state practices were proved significant short of accuracy and no longer serve the needs of proper categorization comes from the different level of product recovery provided to the used goods. As this research proposed, there should be a proper categorization within the products of after-markets, and no less favorable treatment applied to those likeness goods accordingly.