Pursuant to section 14(6) of the Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988 ("the Act"), the Minister of Commerce, having carried out a reassessment of the
anti-dumping duty applying to imports into New Zealand of galvanised wire from Malaysia, following the completion
of a review under section 14(8) of the Act, and having determined a new rate of anti-dumping duty applicable to those goods, gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
Title and commencement (1) This notice may be cited as the "Reassessment of Anti-Dumping Duty: Galvanised Wire from Malaysia".
(2) This notice replaces and supersedes all previous notices in relation to the subject goods described below in the First Schedule.
(3) Pursuant to section 17 of the Act, the reassessed
anti-dumping duty, set out in the Second Schedule to this notice, shall apply to imports of the goods specified in the First Schedule with effect from the day after the date of this notice.
First Schedule
Subject Goods
Country of Origin
Malaysia.
Description of Goods
The subject goods that the reassessed anti-dumping duty rate applies to are described as:
Galvanised steel wire of high, medium and low tensile strength between (and including) 2mm and 4.5mm in diameter.
The goods are currently classified under Tariff Item 7217.20.10 and Statistical Keys 05L, 07G, 08E, 09C, 11E, 13A, 15H, 16F, 17D, 18B, 25E, 27A 28K, 29H, 31K, 33F, 35B, 36L, 37J and 39E, and Tariff Item 7217.20.90 and Statistical Keys 05D, 07L, 08J, 09G, 11J, 13E, 15A, 16K, 17H and 18F of the Tariff of New Zealand, which classifications are 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 the subject goods imported shall be an ad valorem rate of 15 per cent.
The ad valorem (percentage) rate will apply to all imports of the subject goods from Malaysia (excluding those from RCI Wire Sdn. Bhd.), on the basis of the Customs’ value for
duty (VFD) of the subject goods when imported into
New Zealand.
Dated at Wellington this 17th day of November 2009.
HON SIMON POWER, Minister of Commerce.
Note: A non-confidential version of the final review and reassessment report, which contains details of the conclusions reached, is available from the Trade Rules, Remedies and Tariffs Group, Competition, Trade and Investment Branch, Ministry of Economic Development,
PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140.