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FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1990

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ANTI-DUMPING INVESTIGATION ON HK PHOTO ALBUMS TERMINATED

HAS ANNOUNCED THE

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES TERMINATION OF AN ANTI-DUMPING INVESTIGATION ON IMPORTS OF ALBUMS FROM HONG KONG.

PHOTOGRAPH

TODAY (FRIDAY) THE INVESTIGATION AFTER WHICH WAS THE

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE TRADE DEPARTMENT SAID COMMISSION HAD ANNOUNCED ITS DECISION TO END THE ACCEPTING A PRICE UNDERTAKING BY A HONG KONG COMPANY, ONLY ONE NAMED IN THE COMPLAINT.

HE SAID THE

UNDERTAKING

AND

COVERED BOOK-BOUND TRADITIONAL

WHILE OTHERS MENTIONED IN THE SELF-ADHESIVE ALBUMS, BOOK-BOUND

TYPES, PROCEEDING, SUCH AS SPIRAL-BOUND SELF-ADHESIVE AND THE SLIP-IN WERE EXCLUDED FROM IT.

AS

AGAINST

SAID THAT AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF TRADE, MR ALAN LAI,

HONG KONG WAS INITIATED IN PROCEEDING AS THE SOON

TO REPRESENTATIONS HAD MADE

THE DECEMBER

THE DEPARTMENT 1988,

AGAINST HONG COMMISSION CRITICISING THE INITIATION OF THE PROCEEDING KONG IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT HONG KONG'S MARKET SHARE WAS DECLINING.

SMALL

AND

ALSO

REQUESTED

COMMISSION CATEGORIES OF PHOTO ALBUMS

THE

TO

IN

THE

HAD DEPARTMENT

BETWEEN DISTINGUISH

DIFFERENT DETERMINING INJURY TO RELATED INDUSTRY.

"WE ARE HAPPY THAT THE HONG KONG MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN ABLE THE COMMISSION," CONCLUDE A MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE ARRANGEMENT WITH LAI SAID.

ΤΟ

MR

THAT ALL OTHER HONG "TERMINATION OF THE INVESTIGATION MEANS

WHO ARE MAINLY ENGAGED IN MAKING KONG PHOTO ALBUM MANUFACTURERS,

ΤΟ ANY SPIRAL-BOUND SELF-ADHESIVE AND SLIP-IN TYPES, ARE NOT SUBJECT EEC ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES."

HE SAID THERE WERE STILL THREE ERC ANTI-DUMPING PROCEEDINGS,

TELEVISION RECEIVERS AND INVOLVING AUDIO TAPES, SMALL SCREEN COLOUR DENIM CLOTH, AWAITING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF INVESTIGATION RESULTS.

"WE SHALL

CONTINUE

ΤΟ MONITOR

++

CLOSELY, MR LAI SAID.

DEVELOPMENTS

ON

THESE

VERY

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