*EPF506 07/18/2003
USITC Rejects Dumping, Subsidy Cases on Printing Ink Component
(Imports from India no threat to U.S. industry, commissioners decide 4-0) (160)

Washington -- The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has ended dumping and subsidy investigations into a product from India used in manufacturing printing ink.

In a 4-0 vote July 18 the commissioners made a negative preliminary determination that evidence of injury to the U.S. industry from the imports of colored synthetic organic oleoresinous pigment dispersions did not suffice to continue the investigations, ending them at this early stage.

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. Similarly, imposition of countervailing duties requires final affirmative determinations on both subsidies and injury.

These pigment dispersions, a thick putty that contains pigment dispersed in a varnish, are used primarily for the manufacture of letterpress and lithographic printing inks.

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

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