NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 158

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette, 23 November 2000, No. 157, pages 4046 and 4047

Economic Development

Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988

Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 8 (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. 8 (Duty Reassessment)”, 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 first 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), and of the notice entitled “Final Determination of Dumping Investigation: 10mm Plasterboard from Thailand” dated 23 July 1996 and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 8 August 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the third principal notice).

(2) Pursuant to section 14 (6) of the Act, the reassessed anti-dumping duty, set out in the Second Schedule to this notice, shall apply to imports of the goods specified in the First Schedule to the principal notice with effect from 30 September 1999, being the date of initiation of the review that preceded the duty reassessment. In accordance with section 14 (10) of the Act, Customs is required to refund the difference between the duty paid and any lower duty specified in the Second Schedule to this notice. Where there is a difference between the duty paid and any higher duty specified in the Second Schedule, there will be no liability for the payment of this difference.

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 the 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 11 May 1995 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 3 (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)”, and by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 4 July 1996 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 5 (Duty Reassessment)”, and by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 16 January 1997 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 6 (Duty Reassessment)”, and by notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 30 September 1999 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 7 (Duty Reassessment)”) is hereby amended by omitting the Second Schedule and substituting the Schedule to this notice. The second principal notice (as amended by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 4 July 1996 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 5 (Duty Reassessment)”, and by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 16 January 1997 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 6 (Duty Reassessment)”, and by notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 30 September 1999 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 7 (Duty Reassessment)”) is hereby amended by omitting the Second Schedule and substituting the Schedule to this notice. The third principal notice (as amended by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 16 January 1997 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 6 (Duty Reassessment)”, and by notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 30 September 1999 entitled “Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 7 (Duty Reassessment)”) is hereby amended by omitting the Second Schedule 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. 7 (Duty Reassessment)”, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 30 September 1999, is hereby revoked.

Schedule

New Schedules to Principal Notices

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:

(a) For subject goods from the suppliers and exporters listed in the Third Schedule to this notice, the amount per square metre by which the Non-Injurious-Free-On-Board amount or Normal Value Equivalent amount exceeds the Thai Producer Value.

(b) For all other suppliers of subject goods, the rate of duty set out in the Fourth Schedule to this notice.

Third Schedule

List of Thai Producers

Thai producers, being suppliers and exporters, for which Non-Injurious-Free-On-Board and Normal Value Equivalent amounts have been established for the subject goods, are:

SCT Co Limited.

Thai Gypsum Products Public Company Limited.