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WASHINGTON - The US Commerce Department is to order new duties on certain coated paper from China and Indonesia after finding that both nations were engaged in unfair subsidization and dumping, a statement said Tuesday.
"Commerce determined that Chinese producers/exporters have sold certain coated paper in the United States at dumping margins ranging from 7.60 percent to 135.83 percent," the department said.
"Indonesian producers/exporters have sold certain coated paper in the United States at a margin of 20.13 percent," the statement said, adding that Indonesian firms also received subsidies of nearly 18 percent.
In 2009, Chinese imports of the affected paper were valued at an estimated 280 million dollars. Indonesian imports of the same were valued at 62 million dollars, the department said.
The Commerce Department began investigating allegations of dumping and unfair subsidies at the request of several US paper firms and a US workers union.
They alleged the industries were selling their products in the United States at lower prices than normal and were receiving unfair financial help from the Chinese and Indonesian governments benefiting the production, manufacture or export of their products.
The Commerce Department said it would instruct US Customs and Border Protection to collect cash deposits or bonds based on the anti-dumping rates.
But it said a cash deposit would not be required unless the US International Trade Commission rules that the import of coated paper from either country "materially injure, or threaten material injury to, the domestic industry."
AFP
