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 anti-dumping duty applying to imports into New Zealand of galvanised wire from South Africa 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 South Africa”.
(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.
(4) Where the anti-dumping duties imposed as a result of this notice are lower than those previously in place, in accordance with subsection 14(10) of the Act, importers may apply to Customs for a refund of the difference between the anti-dumping duties imposed by this notice and the anti-dumping duty paid from 18 December 2007.
Schedules
First Schedule
Subject 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 2mm and 4.5mm in diameter, but EXCLUDING the following:
Galvanised steel spring wire AS1472 exceeding 4mm 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 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 the subject goods
imported, or intended to be imported, into New Zealand from South Africa, shall be an ad valorem percentage rate
of 33 percent.
The ad valorem percentage rate will apply to all imports
of the subject goods from South Africa on the basis of the value for duty (VFD) of the subject goods when imported into New Zealand except those supplied by African Gabions (Pty) Limited and Finmesa Investment Corporation.
Dated at Wellington this 18th day of August 2008.
HON LIANNE DALZIEL, Minister of Commerce.
Note: A non-confidential version of the Final 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.