The
following members notified anti-dumping actions taken during the period 1
January — 30 June 2010: Argentina; Australia; Botswana; Brazil; Canada;
Chile; China; Colombia; Costa Rica; Egypt; European Union; India; Indonesia;
Israel; Jamaica; Korea; Lesotho; Mexico; Namibia; New Zealand; Pakistan;
Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; South Africa; Swaziland; Chinese
Taipei; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine and the United States.
Chile said it was following closely Brazil’s
investigation on sea salt, which started last March. The United States
questioned the extension and increase of Brazil’s anti-dumping duty on
ethylene glycol. Brazil assured Chile that the investigation would follow
WTO rules, and explained to the United States that Brazilian law on sunset
review provided for both extension and modification of level of duty.
On Japan’s concern regarding China’s treatment of
a Japanese exporter of chloroprene rubber in an anti-dumping investigation,
China said that it found a discrepancy between the exporter’s answer in the
questionnaire and the result of an on-spot investigation. In reply to
questions from the United States and the European Union, China said it would
follow WTO rules in its investigation on optical fibre. In a general
statement, China said that despite being the number one target of
anti-dumping and countervailing-duty measures, it was prudently using the
anti-dumping instrument.
The European Union, in its answer to China, said
that its simultaneous safeguard, anti-dumping and countervailing-duty
investigations on wireless wide area networking modems, and a separate
investigation on ironing boards, are justified and would follow WTO rules.
Turkey expressed serious concern that Indonesia’s
investigation on wheat flour has not been concluded two years after it had
started.
China questioned the United States’ methodology in
its anti-dumping investigation on tubular goods. Japan expressed concern
that the average duration of US measures on 19 Japanese products is 15
years. The United States said it would refer China’s question to capital.
The Committee reviewed notifications of new or
amended anti-dumping legislation from Colombia, Croatia and Guyana.
The Committee Chairman, Mr. Adrián Serra
(Argentina), reported on meetings held by the Working Group on
Implementation and the Informal Group on Anti-Circumvention, respectively.
He said that the Working Group on Implementation had a good discussion on
four papers: separate papers by Korea and New Zealand on their experiences
with respect to sunset reviews; and papers from Egypt on constructed export
price and on the accuracy and adequacy test.
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