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TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1991
THE
EXPORTER USED REDUCE PRICES
THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF TRADE, MR ALAN LAI, SAID
WAS THAT AN NORMAL SCENARIO ASSOCIATED WITH DUMPING HIGH PRICES IN A PROTECTED DOMESTIC MARKET IN ORDER TO OVERSEAS AND THUS UNDERMINE THE DOMESTIC INDUSTRY OF IMPORTING COUNTRIES.
"HONG KONG HAS AN OPEN ECONOMY AND DOES NOT
A HAVE
PROTECTED
MARKET.
"IT IS THUS UNLIKELY THAT HONG KONG COMPANIES, ARE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE, WOULD DUMP, MR LAI SAID.
ot
MOST OF
WHICH
HE
THE SAID
TRADE DEPARTMENT WOULD
WITH DISCUSS
LOCAL MADE TO THE MANUFACTURERS WHETHER FURTHER REPRESENTATIONS SHOULD BE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO CHALLENGE ITS FINDINGS.
SPOKESMAN A
TERMINATED
FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID OF THE EIGHT CASES NOW WAS THAT INITIATED BY THE EEC SINCE DECEMBER 1987, THE POSITION
PHOTO DENIM, FIVE CASES (CELLULAR MOBILE RADIO TELEPHONES,
ALBUMS, SILICON METAL AND TUNGSTEN ORES) HAD BEEN
WITHOUT DUTIES UP IMPOSITION OF ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES; DEFINITIVE ANTI-DUMPING TO 21.9 PER CENT HAD BEEN IMPOSED IN THE CASE OF VIDEO CASSETTE TAPES; AND PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES WERE NOW IN PLACE WITH RESPECT AUDIO TAPES (2.4 PER CENT) AND SMALL-SCREEN COLOUR RECEIVERS (UP TO 4.8 PER CENT).
"NO NEW CASES INVOLVING HONG KONG HAVE BEEN COMMISSION FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS. BUT THIS IS NOT OUR VIGILANCE, MR LAI SAID.
ΤΟ
TELEVISION
THE
BY INITIATED A REASON ΤΟ RELAX
'ALTHOUGH WE ARE GLAD NOT TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED
IN NEW CASES WILL BE NO NEW CASES IN
FOR SOME TIME, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THERE
"
FUTURE, HE ADDED.
THREE DB ELECTIONS CANDIDATES WITHDRAW NOMINATIONS
THREE CANDIDATES FOR THE 1991 DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS ON MARCH 3 HAVE WITHDRAWN THEIR NOMINATIONS TODAY (TUESDAY), REDUCING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CANDIDATES TO 472.
THEY ARE MR SUNG TIN-HUNG WHO HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR YAU MA TEI EAST CONSTITUENCY IN YAU TSIM DISTRICT; MR PETER CHAN CHI-KWAN WHO HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR KOWLOON TONG CONSTITUENCY IN KOWLOON CITY DISTRICT: AND MR CHOW YUN-HUNG WHO HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR AP LEI CHAU NORTH CONSTITUENCY IN SOUTHERN DISTRICT.
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