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Ref : CR EIC 426/3/1

25 January 2011

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 62/2011

Mexico : Anti-dumping Action against Denim Originated in or Exported from Hong Kong

The Department has received information that the Mexican Ministry of Economy (MMoE) has published a notice in the Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federacion) of 20 January 2011 to announce the termination of the expiry review initiated in August 2010 on the anti-dumping (AD) duty order on cotton denim from Hong Kong and the termination of the AD order which has been in place since 1991. The Official Gazette (in Spanish) is available at 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5175235&fecha=20/01/2011.

DETAILS

2. Since September 1991, denim of 85% cotton or more (classified under subheading 5209.42.01 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of Mexico) from Hong Kong and imported into Mexico is subject to an AD duty of US$1 per kilogram unless they are exported by Hong Kong companies specifically exempted by the Mexican authorities. On 12 August 2010, the MMoE announced the initiation of an expiry review on the AD order upon the requests filed by Mexican domestic producers of denim. The Department has issued Commercial Information Circular No. 366/2010 to inform the trade of this.

3. Because the petitioning Mexican domestic producers declined to participate in the expiry review, the MMoE decided to terminate the expiry review. On 20 January 2011, the MMoE published in the Official Gazette a resolution to terminate the AD order.

ENQUIRIES

4. For enquiries concerning this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5682.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Carmen CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry