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Commercial Information Circulars

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e-mail address : enquiry@tid.gov.hk

Ref : EIC 895/3/7

19 July 2007

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 279/2007

New Zealand : Initiation of Anti-Dumping Investigation on
 Imports of Diaries Originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China

The Department noticed from the World Trade Organization Report on Anti-dumping dated 12 July 2007 that an anti-dumping investigation has been initiated by New Zealand against imports of diaries originating in, inter alia, the mainland of China. The Department has subsequently contacted the Ministry of Economic Development of New Zealand which confirms that the anti-dumping investigation was initiated on 2 March 2007 against goods described below which originate in the mainland of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea and Malaysia :

"Diaries, with or without covers, excluding diaries with steel ring binders; and wallplanners", currently classified under Tariff Item 4820.10.00 and Statistical Key 02J of the Tariff of New Zealand. 

Non-confidential part of the Anti-dumping Initiation Report and the Gazette notice announcing the initiation are available through the following web-links :

  1. Initiation Report (Non-confidential part) :
    http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentTOC____25637.aspx
     
  2. Gazette Notice :
    http://online.gazette.govt.nz/MSOS118/On Line/NZGazette.nsf/6cee7698a9bbc7cfcc256d510059ed0b/ae95bebc
    5f885310cc2572c20080928e?OpenDocument
  1. According to New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry has notified the concerned manufacturers and exporters in the mainland of China of the anti-dumping investigation, and requested information from them for the Ministry's investigation in the anti-dumping case. Information received by the Ministry will be used to determine, among other things, whether the dumping allegation is substantiated. 
     
  2. The Ministry of Economic Development will release to interested parties the essential facts and conclusions that will likely form the basis for any final determination, within 150 days after the initiation of the investigation, which would in this case be 29 July 2007.
     
  3. Interested parties will be given 10 days to make submissions on the essential facts and conclusions, and submissions will be taken into account in the Final Report and recommendations to New Zealand's Minister of Commerce. The Minister will make a final determination on whether the goods are being dumped and causing or threatening to cause material injury to the New Zealand industry within 180 days after the investigation was initiated, which in the present case would be 28 August 2007.

ENQUIRIES

  1. For traders involved in the exports of the subject product in the Guangdong Province, please contact Mr CHEN Li-peng, Director of the Bureau of Fair Trade for Import and Export under the Guangdong Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, at telephone number +86-20-3881 9913, or Ms SHUAI Hai-yan, Deputy Director, at telephone number +86-20-3881 9915. The Bureau is responsible for, among others, conducting anti-dumping investigations, and guiding and coordinating enterprises in the Guangdong Province in responding to anti-dumping investigations against products from the Guangdong Province.
     
  2. For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5698.

Yours faithfully,




(Chandler CHAN)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry