Pursuant to section 14 of the Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988 ("the Act"), the Minister of Commerce, having carried out a reassessment of the rate or amount of countervailing duty in respect of imorts into New Zealand of canned peaches produced by Venus Growers of Veria, Greece, and having determined a new rate or amount of countervailing 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 of Subsidy Investigation: Canned Peaches From the European Union, Amendment No. 1, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the notice entitled "Final Determination of Subsidy Investigation: Canned Peaches From the European Union" dated 9 January 1998 and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 22 January 1998 (hereinafter referred to as the principal notice).
(2) The reassessed countervailing duty, as set out in the Schedule to this notice, shall apply to imports of the goods specified in the said Schedule with effect from 2 November 1999 being the date of initiation of the reassessment of countervailing duty.
2. Amendment to Countervailing Duties Applicable¾
The principal notice is hereby amended by omitting the Second Schedule and substituting the Schedule set out in this notice.
"Schedule
SECOND SCHEDULE
Amount of Countervailing Duty
The amount of countervailing duty to be paid on demand in respect of each importation of canned peaches, imported or intended to be imported into New Zealand from the European Union, shall be the percentage of free-on-board value (being "Customs value" as defined in section 2 (1) of the Customs and Excise Act 1996) shown below:
Country of Export/Exporter Rate of Duty
Greece
Vermion Naoussa 21%
AL.M.ME 22%
Venus Growers 8%
Other Greek Exporters 21%
Spain
Maximino Moreno 12%
Conservas San Frutua 15%
Other Spanish Exporters 13%
Other EU Member States
All Other EU Exporters 21%"
Dated at Wellington this 16th day of April 2000.
TREVOR MALLARD, Acting Minister of Commerce.