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Chinese Glassmaker Challenges U.S. Anti-dumping Decision

Chinese auto glass maker Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co Ltd said Wednesday that it has filed an appeal challenging the anti-dumping decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and is confident that it will win if treated fairly.


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Chinese auto glass maker Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co Ltd said Wednesday that it has filed an appeal challenging the anti-dumping decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and that it is confident to win if treated fairly.

The company and its U.S. subsidiary, Greenvile Glass Industries Inc, appealed April 10 to the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York. The federal district court specializes in appeals of anti-dumping decisions by the DOC.

Tak-wong, Fuyao Glass chairman, said he believes an impartial judge will overturn the decision and exonerate the company of all charges, according to Thursday's China Daily.

The DOC ruled in February in favor of imposing anti-dumping duties of 11.8 percent on Fuyao's U.S. shipments of automotive replacement windshields.

Impartial judgment by DOC

Bruce Mitchell, the U.S. lawyer for Fuyao, said he has not seen a more unfair case in his 25-year career.

The DOC rejected Fuyao's real costs for materials imported from Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea because of suspicions that the exporters of the materials in those countries get subsidies, he said.

"It is ridiculous for the DOC to say there are subsidies in those countries, so Fuyao should prove that none of the products it uses are subsidized," Mitchell said.

According to U.S. laws and rules of the World Trade Organization, the DOC can not reject a company's actual raw material costs in the market economy even if there is proof those materials benefit from subsidies.

Critical to win the case

"It is critical for us to win the case because if the current ruling stands, it will set a precedent and impact Chinese companies," Cho said.

Mitchell said the DOC met at least seven times with the U.S. companies that filed the anti-dumping case without any legal representatives from the Chinese companies present.

Cho said the case would not affect his company's operations this year.

The turnover is to grow to 1.4 billion yuan (169 million U.S. dollars) from 930 million (112 million U.S. dollars) last year, he said.



China Won 37.5% Anti-dumping Cases in Past Ten Years
After years' efforts, China has made great achievements on responding to anti-dumping prosecutions. In the past 10 years, China has won some 37.5 percent anti-dumping cases with the no-tariff or no-loss ends. Chinese enterprises have become active in adopting vigorous measures on anti-dumping cases, and they have responded all such cases in the United Sates and the European Union.

In view of existing situation in which the international trade protectionism recurs and more anti-dumping cases against China emerge, departments concerned have intensified measures to respond cases, instruction on relevant law, outlay for support, governmental negotiation, and some others, thereby steadying and expanding China's exports. >>details




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