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TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1990
STATEMENT ON EEC'S LIFTING OF ANTI-DUMPING PROCEEDING
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TODAY SAID
{TUESDAY} THE TRADE DEPARTMENT
THE OF
EUROPEAN THE COMMISSION INFORMATION THAT ANNOUNCED TERMINATION OF THE ANTI-DUMPING PROCEEDING INTO THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC) OF DENIM HONG KONG, TURKEY, INDONESIA AND MACAU.
THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL
RECEIVED
IT HAD
COMMUNITIES HAD AGAINST IMPORTS ORIGINATING FROM
STUART
HARBINSON, WAS INITIATED
то
OF TRADE, MR SAID THAT, AS SOON AS THE PROCEEDING AGAINST HONG KONG
VIGOROUSLY REACTED HAD INDUSTRY IN MARCH 1989,
TEXTILE THE COUNTER ALLEGATIONS OF DUMPING.
ON
BEHALF
OF ALL
OF
LOCAL DENIM THE EUROPEAN DENIM IMPORTS TO THE EEC'S
TEXTILE COUNCIL, THE MANUFACTURERS, HAD ALSO SUBMITTED TO THE COMMISSION COMMUNITIES AN INJURY STUDY IN JULY 1989 TO SHOW THAT INTO THE EEC FROM HONG KONG HAD NOT CAUSED ANY DENIM INDUSTRY.
INJURY
ΤΟ
THE ABLE DEALT WITH BY' FROM HONG KONG IMPOSED
SUBMITTED REPRESENTATIONS THE TRADE DEPARTMENT ITSELF HAD
1989, REQUESTING TERMINATION OF THE COMMISSION IN OCTOBER PROCEEDING ON THE GROUNDS THAT EEC'S DENIM INDUSTRY HAD NOT BEEN TO PROVE THAT ANY ALLEGED INJURY HAD NOT ALREADY BEEN THE QUANTITATIVE RESTRAINT ON DENIM IMPORTS UNDER THE MFA AND THE HK/EEC TEXTILES AGREEMENT.
AT PRESENT, EXPORTS OF DENIM TO THE EEC ARE CONTROL UNDER THE TEXTILES AGREEMENT.
SUBJECT TO QUOTA
AND
FURTHER MADE DEPARTMENT
ARGUMENTS PUT FORWARD ALLIED TEXTILE INDUSTRIES
TRADE THE THE TEXTILE COUNCIL SUBMISSIONS EARLY THIS YEAR TO REFUTE FURTHER BY EUROCOTON (COMMITTEE OF THE COTTON AND OF THE EEC), THE COMPLAINANT IN THIS CASE.
THE EFFORTS OF THE INDUSTRY AND THE GOVERNMENT HAD BORNE IN THE PRESENT CASE, MR HARBINSON SAID.
ANNOUNCING TERMINATION
FRUIT
OF
THE
BT
DENIM
SHOULD
IN THE COMMISSION DECISION PROCEEDING, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT NO MATERIAL INJURY WAS SUSTAINED
A RESULT OF DUMP IMPORTS OF INDUSTRY AS COMMUNITY
THE PROCEEDING ORIGINATING IN THE PLACES CONCERNED, AND THAT BE TERMINATED WITHOUT IMPOSITION OF ANY ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES.
THE
"WE WELCOME THE COMMISSION'S PROCEEDING," MR HARBINSON SAID.
DECISION
TO TERMINATE THE
WOULD HAVE BEEN DOUBLE JEOPARDY SUBJECT TO ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES.
"OUR DENIM EXPORTS TO THE BEC ARE ALREADY UNDER QUOTA,
TO OUR TRADE IF
AND
THESE
WERE
IT ALSO
/"THE DEPARTMENT