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25-01-1991 14:28 HKGO LONDON 071 495 5033

44 71 495 5033 P.02

JANUARY 22, 19ST

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

PRESS

TUESDAY

RELEASE

EU IMPOSES PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES ON HK TV RECEIVERS

3

"REGRETTABLE"

THE TRADE DEPARTMENT TODAY TUESDAY) DESCRIBED AS A DECISION SY THE COMMISSION OF THE PROVISIONAL ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES OF 2.1 PER CENT TO 4.8

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY TO IMPOSE SMALL SCREEN COLOUR TELEVISION RECEIVERS FROM HONG KONG.

PER CENT ON

FOR

FOR ANOTHER TWO MONTHS DEFINITIVE ANTI - DUMPING

THE DUTY, EFFECTIVE FROM SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, WILL BE VALID FOUR MONTHS ALTHOUGH THIS CAN BE BEFORE THE COMMISSION DECIDES DUTY

EXTENDED

то IMPOSE

31X HONG KONG MANUFACTURERS PARTICIPATED IN WHICH WAS INITIATED ON NOVEMBER 12, 1968

THE

THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF TRADE. MR ALAN NORMAL SCENARIO ASSOCIATED WITH DUMPING HIGH PRICES IN A PROTECTED DOMESTIC MARKET IN ORDER TO WAS THAT AN OVERSEAS AND THUS UNDERMINE THE DOMESTIC COUNTRIES.

INDUSTRY

INVESTIGATION

LAI, SAID THE EXPORTER USED REDUCE PRICES

OF IMPORTING

"HONG KONG HAS AN OPEN ECONOMY AND DOES NOT

HAVE

PROTECTED

MARKET

IT IS THUS UNLIKELY THAT HONG KONG COMPANIES, ARE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE, WOULD DUMP,' MR LAT SAID.

MOST OF WHICH

Hb SAID THE TRADE DEPARTMENT WOULD

DISCUSS

MANUFACTURERS WHETHER FURTHER REPRESENTATIONS SHOULD BE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO CHALLENGE ITS FINDINGS.

WITH LOCAL MADE TO THE

SAID OF THE

DENIM, PHOTO

RIGHT CASES NOW WAS THAT

ALBUMS, TERMINATED WITHOUT DUTIES WP

SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT ANITLATED BY THE BEC SINCE DECEMBER 1987, THE POSITION FE CASES (CELLULAR MOBILE RADIO TELEPHONES, SACICON METAL AND TUNGSTEN ORES) HAD BEEN 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 12.1

Co POR CENTR AND SMALL-SCREEN RECDIVERS (UP TO 4.8 PER CENT)

COLOUR TELEVISION

NO NEW CASES INVOLVING HONG KONG HAVE BEEN COMMISSION FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS. BUT THIS IS NOT

A

INITIATED BY THE REASON TO RELAX

QUR VIGILANDR.

MR LAC SAID.

ALTHOUGH WE ARE GLAD NOT TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THERE WILL BE NO

FOR SOME TIME, FUTURE,

END.

IN NEW

N

CASES CASES IN

TOPOL PIZDE

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