NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 69

Extract from New Zealand Gazette, 4 July 1996, No. 68, page 1685

Commerce

Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988

List of Products Subject to Anti-Dumping Duties

Products currently subject to anti-dumping duties are as follows:

• Hog Bristle Paint Brushes from China.
• Refined Sugar from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Thailand.
• Plasterboard from Thailand.
• Lead Acid Batteries from Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.
• Certain Non-Leather Women’s Footwear from China.
• Certain Men’s Footwear from China, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
• Automotive Oil Filters from the United States of America.
• Sweetened Condensed Milk from Thailand.
• Abrasive Discs and Wheels from Korea and Taiwan.
• G-Clamps from the United Kingdom.

Full details of the products covered and the applicable amount of anti-dumping duty are available upon request to the Trade Remedies Group, Ministry of Commerce, P.O. Box 1473, Wellington. Telephone: (064 04) 472 0030. Facsimile: (064 04) 499 8508.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of July 1996.

A. H. McPHAIL, Manager, Trade Remedies Group.

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Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No. 5 (Duty Reassessment)

Pursuant to section 14 of the Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988 (“the Act”), the Minister of Commerce, having carried out a reassessment of anti-dumping duty in respect of imports into New Zealand of certain plasterboard from Thailand and having determined a new anti-dumping duty applicable to those goods, gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No. 5”, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the notice entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand” dated 21 December 1989 and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 11 January 1990 (hereinafter referred to as the principal notice), and of the notice entitled “Final Determination of Dumping Investigation: Certain Other Plasterboard from Thailand” dated 29 March 1996 and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 4 April 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the second principal notice).

(2) The reassessed anti-dumping duty, set out in the Schedule to this notice, shall apply to imports of the goods specified in the said Schedule with effect from 1 July 1996.

2. Amendment to anti-dumping duty applicable—The first principal notice (as amended by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 8 March 1990 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 1”), and by the notice in New Zealand Gazette of 18 April 1991 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No. 2 (Duty Reassessment)”, and by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 7 March 1996 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No.4 (Duty Reassessment)”) is hereby amended by omitting the Schedule and substituting the Schedule to this notice. The second principal notice is hereby amended by omitting the First and Second Schedules and substituting the Schedule to this notice.

3. Consequential revocation—The notice entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No.4 (Duty Reassessment)”, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 7 March 1996, is hereby revoked.

Schedule

New Schedule to Principal Notice

First Schedule

Country of Origin
Thailand.

Description of Goods
Standard plasterboard of nominal dimensions of 9mm or 9.5mm thickness.

The goods are currently classified under Tariff Item and Statistical Key 6809.11.00 10b of the Tariff of New Zealand, which classification is provided for convenience and Customs purposes only, the written description being dispositive.

Second Schedule

Amount of Anti-Dumping Duty
The amount of anti-dumping duty to be paid on demand in respect of each importation of plasterboard, imported or intended to be imported into New Zealand from Thailand, shall be equal to the amount by which the free-on-board value (Being “Customs value” as defined in section 2(1) of the Customs Act 1966) is less than the non-injurious free-on-board import price of NZ$2.1245 per square metre.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of July 1996.

JOHN LUXTON, Minister of Commerce.

Explanatory Note

This is an interim reassessment notice to take account of the reduction in normal tariff duty applicable to the subject goods with effect from 1 July 1996. A further reassessment notice may be made at a later date following consideration of all other elements of the formula used to determine the amount of anti-dumping duties payable on the subject goods.

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