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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1993

NEW ZEALAND IMPOSES FINAL ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES ON FOOTWEAR IMPORTS

THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT HAS IMPOSED ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES ON THE IMPORTS OF CERTAIN MEN'S FOOTWEAR FROM CHINA, INDONESJA, KOREA, TAIWAN AND THAILAND.

ACCORDING TO A COMMERCIAL INFORMATION CIRCULAR PUBLISHED BY THE TRADE DEPARTMENT TODAY (TUESDAY), THE AMOUNT OF ANTI-DUMPING DUTY TO BE PAID SHALL BE THE AMOUNT BY WHICH THE NORMAL VALUE EXCEEDS THE VALUE FOR DUTY OF THE GOODS WHEN ENTERING NEW ZEALAND FOR HOME CONSUMPTION.

THE TERRITORY'S 6402, 6403,

HONG KONG TRADE STATISTICS SHOW THAT RE-EXPORTS OF FOOTWEAR UNDER HARMONISED SYSTEM CODE NOS. 6404 AND 6405, TO NEW ZEALAND AMOUNTED AT HK$56 MILLION HK$86.2 MILLION FROM JANUARY TO NOVEMBER IN 1992.

IN 1991 AND

THAT

MEANWHILE, THE TRADE DEPARTMENT ALSO RECEIVED INFORMATION THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT HAS IMPOSED PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES ON IMPORTS OF PHOSPHORIC ACID PRODUCED IN CHINA.

WITH EFFECT FROM OCTOBER 27, 1992, IMPORT OF CERTAIN TYPES OF PHOSPHORIC ACID ORIGINATING FROM CHINA, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE COUNTRY OF EXPORT, WOULD, IN ADDITION TO NORMAL DUTIES, BE SUBJECT ΤΟ PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES, RANGING FROM 44.73 PER CENT TO 59.34 PER CENT, FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR MONTHS.

ACCORDING TO HONG KONG TRADE STATISTICS, HONG KONG'S RE-EXPORTS OF PHOSPHORIC ACID, UNDER HARMONISED SYSTEM CODE 2809,2000, OF CHINESE ORIGIN TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AMOUNTED ΤΟ HK$2 MILLION IN 1991 AND HK$1.9 MILLION FROM JANUARY TO OCTOBER IN 1992.

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PERMANENT MAGISTRATE APPOINTED

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THE JUDICIARY ANNOUNCED TODAY (

(TUESDAY) THAT MR TAM HOP-HON, SPECIAL MAGISTRATE SINCE 1985, HAS BEEN APPOINTED A PERMANENT MAGISTRATE, WITH EFFECT FROM FEBRUARY 1, 1993.

MR TAM WAS BORN IN CHINA IN 1946 AND WAS EDUCATED IN HONG KONG TO SECONDARY LEVEL.

HE LEFT SCHOOL IN 1966 AND JOINED GOVERNMENT SERVICE AS A LAND ASSISTANT. THROUGH EVENING CLASSES MR TAM REACHED MATRICULATION LEVEL IN 1968 AND OBTAINED A MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ASIA IN MACAU IN 1986.

/FROM 1967