*EPF309 12/29/2004
Anti-dumping Case on Engines from Japan Ready for Final Review
(Commerce Department also amends ruling on furniture imports from China) (220)

Washington -- The U.S. Commerce Department has ruled that outboard engines imported from Japan were dumped on the U.S. market.

In a December 28 final affirmative determination, the department calculated dumping margins at 18.98 percent.

Imposition of anti-dumping duties requires final affirmative determinations both from the Commerce Department that dumping occurred and from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) that the imports injured or threatened U.S. industry.

The USITC is expected to make its final injury determination in February 2005.

In 2003, imports of outboard engines from Japan amounted to $673.5 million, a 15 percent increase over the 2002 level.

In a separate anti-dumping investigation on wooden bedroom furniture imported from China, the department announced on the same day amendments to some dumping margins it had calculated in its final affirmative determination made December 10.�� The details of this announcement can be viewed at http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/FactSheet/1204/furniture_122804.html

Dumping is the sale of an export good at a price below the home-market or a third-country price, or below the cost of production.�� The dumping margin is the price difference expressed as a percentage of the export price.

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

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