*EPF411 06/05/2003
Antidumping Duties Imposed on Chemical Compound from Japan
(Duties rejected for polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) imports from Germany) (270)

Washington -- The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to impose antidumping duties on imports of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) from Japan but not on such imports from Germany.

In a 3-1 vote June 5, the commissioners made an affirmative final determination that the imports from Japan threatened injury to the U.S. industry. They voted 4-0 for a negative determination on the imports from Germany.

Imposition of antidumping duties equal to the dumping margins requires final affirmative determinations both from the Department of Commerce that dumping occurred and from the USITC that the imports injured or threatened U.S. industry.

In April the Commerce Department calculated the dumping margins for imports from Japan as follows: Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, 144.16 percent; Japan VAM & POVAL Co., Ltd., 144.16 percent; Kuraray Co., Ltd., 144.16 percent; The Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., 144.16 percent, and all others, 76.78 percent.

The department calculated final dumping margins for the imports from Germany as follows: Clariant GMBH, 19.05 percent; Kuraray Specialties Europe GMBH, 19.05 percent, and all others, 10.75 percent.

PVA is used in the production of auto window glass and architectural glass. U.S. imports of PVA from Germany and Japan in 2002 amounted to $4.6 million.

Dumping is the import of goods at a price below the home-market or a third-country price or below the cost of production. A dumping margin represents by how much the fair-value price exceeds the dumped price.

(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)

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