mcsail <mcsail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Today’s Ottawa Citizen (Sept 27) has another re****t
> about the Canadian International Trade Tribunal's (CITT)
> recommendation that the federal government impose a
> 30% tariff on bicycles im****ted from various offshore
> countries, including China.
[snip]
> "The proposed 30% surtax would be applied in
> addition to two existing protections - a 13%
> customs tariff that is applied to every bicycle
> im****ted into Canada irrespective of origin
> and special antidumping duties ranging from
> 5-50% that have been imposed on bicycles from
> Taiwan and China for well over a decade."
>
When I lived in Yugoslavia, we used to complain about the government
imposing high taxes and duties on (some) im****ted goods and would say that
such stupidity happens only in socialist countries... How naive we were
...
Bye, Dragan
P.S. There is some interesting information in the re****t
(http://www.citt-tcce.gc.ca/doc/english/safeguar/global/finalrep/gs2e001_e.pdf)
on page 17:
39.On March 8, 2004, the CBSA initiated a reinvestigation to update
the normal values and ex****t prices of bicycles and bicycle
frames
from Chinese Taipei and China being ex****ted to Canada. In the
past, China had been considered a non-market economy; therefore,
normal values for Chinese ex****ters had been established on the
basis of costs or prices of bicycles sold in a third country with
a market economy (i.e. a "surrogate" country, which, in this
case,
was Chinese Taipei). On September 1, 2004, the CBSA concluded
that
it found no evidence to demonstrate that the Government of China
substantially controlled the pricing of bicycles and bicycle
frames. Therefore, normal values were based on prices or costs in
China, not on prices or costs of bicycles sold in a third country
with a market economy. As a result of the reinvestigation, the
Chinese ex****ters with specific normal values are now able to
sell
to Canada at lower prices than previously without being subject
to
an anti-dumping duty.
So, are the bicycles from China sold at dump prices or not?
--
Dragan Cvetkovic,
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