*EPF504 07/11/2003
Dumping Case on Fax Machine Ribbons Advanced by USITC
(Imports from France, Japan, Korea subject to investigation) (190)

Washington -- A dumping investigation into imports from France, Japan and South Korea of a kind of ribbon used in barcode printers and fax machines will continue, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has decided.

In a 3-1 vote July 11 the commissioners made an affirmative preliminary determination that evidence of injury to the U.S. industry sufficed to keep the investigation going into the imports of wax and wax/resin thermal transfer ribbons. A negative determination would have ended the case in this early phase.

Imposition of antidumping duties 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. A preliminary Commerce determination is expected by September.

U.S. imports from the three countries amounted in 2002 to $37.5 million, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. market share by volume.

Dumping is the import of goods at a price below the home-market or a third-country price or below the cost of production.

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

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