Our procurement activities shall be based on the principle of free and open competition, without consideration for nationality, corporate scale or past performance.

The selection of suppliers shall be based on fair and impartial evaluations, taking into consideration quality, price, deadline, technological capacity, business reliability, service and other elements of economic logic. No employee shall accept gifts or personal benefits from suppliers.

Transactions with all suppliers shall be done from a fair and equal position. We shall make every effort to uphold and improve mutual understanding and relations of trust from a long-term perspective so that we can build partnerships capable of supporting mutual growth and development on a sustained basis.

Our procurement activities shall comply fully with all relevant laws and regulations, and in accordance with existing social standards. There shall be no relationships with anti-social forces, which pose a threat to the safety and peace of society.

We shall carry out our procurement activities with uncompromising regard for human rights, workplace safety and health. Suppliers shall likewise be required to make firm commitments to upholding human rights, workplace safety and health.

The confidential information of suppliers we acquire during procurement activities shall be handled with discretion equal to how we treat our company's own information. We shall not disclose this data to third parties or use it for any purpose other than what we have stated without the consent of the supplier(s) in question.

We shall place priority on procuring materials from suppliers devoted to the active pursuit of environmental conservation, and on materials characterized by low environmental loads.