Notice Type
Departmental
Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No. 5 (Duty Reassessment) Pursuant to section 14 of the Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988 (``the Act''), the Minister of Commerce, having carried out a reassessment of anti-dumping duty in respect of imports into New Zealand of certain plasterboard from Thailand and having determined a new anti-dumping duty applicable to those goods, gives the following notice. N o t i c e 1. Title and commencement (1) This notice may be cited as the ``Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No. 5'', and shall be read together with and deemed part of the notice entitled ``Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand'' dated 21 December 1989 and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 11 January 1990 (hereinafter referred to as the principal notice), and of the notice entitled ``Final Determination of Dumping Investigation: Certain Other Plasterboard from Thailand'' dated 29 March 1996 and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 4 April 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the second principal notice). (2) The reassessed anti-dumping duty, set out in the Schedule to this notice, shall apply to imports of the goods specified in the said Schedule with effect from 1 July 1996. 2. Amendment to anti-dumping duty applicable The first principal notice (as amended by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 8 March 1990 entitled ``Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No. 1'', and by the notice in New Zealand Gazette of 18 April 1991 entitled ``Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand'' Amendment No. 2 (Duty Reassessment)'', and by the notice in the New Zealand Gazette of 7 March 1996 entitled ``Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard from Thailand, Amendment No. 4 (Duty Reassessment)'') is hereby amended by omitting the Schedule and substituting the Schedule to this notice. The second principal notice is hereby amended by omitting the First and Second Schedules and substituting the Schedule to this notice. 3. Consequential revocation The notice entitled ``Final Determination: Dumping Investigation in Respect of Plasterboard From Thailand, Amendment No. 4 (Duty Reassessment)'', and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 7 March 1996, is hereby revoked. Schedule New Schedule to Principal Notice ``First Schedule Country of Origin Thailand. Description of Goods Standard plasterboard of nominal dimensions of 9 mm or 9.5 mm thickness. The goods are currently classified under Tariff Item and Statistical Key 6809.11.00 10d of the Tariff of New Zealand, which classification is provided for convenience and Customs purposes only, the written description being dispositive. Second Schedule Amount of Anti-Dumping Duty The amount of anti-dumping duty to be paid on demand in respect of each importation of plasterboard, imported or intended to be imported into New Zealand from Thailand, shall be equal to the amount by which the free-on-board value (Being ``Customs value'' as defined in section 2 (1) of the Customs Act 1966) is less than the non-injurious free-on-board import price of NZ$2.1245 per square metre.'' Dated at Wellington this 1st day of July 1996. JOHN LUXTON, Minister of Commerce. Explanatory Note This is an interim reassessment notice to take account of the reduction in normal tariff duty applicable to the subject goods with effect from 1 July 1996. A further reassessment notice may be made at a later date following consideration of all other elements of the formula used to determine the amount of anti-dumping duties payable on the subject goods.
Publication Date
4 Jul 1996

Notice Number

1996-go4269

Page Number

1685