*EPF307 10/22/2003
Antidumping Duties Imposed on Imports of Chemical from China
(USITC commissioners find injury to U.S. industry) (180)

Washington -- The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to impose antidumping duties on imports of refined brown aluminum oxide, an industrial abrasive, from China.

By a 5-0 vote October 22 the commissioners made a final affirmative determination that the imports injured or threatened U.S. industry.

Imposition of antidumping duties equal to the dumping margin 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 September the Commerce Department made its affirmative final determination, calculating the dumping margin at 135.18 percent.

U.S. imports of refined brown aluminum oxide from China amounted in 2002 to $14.7 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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