Dumping charges on textiles groundless<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Dumping charges launched by European countries
\non Indonesian textile producers are groundless and are a means of
\nprotectionism, an official of the Indonesian Textile Association
\n(API) said yesterday.<\/p>\n
\"Dumping charges from importing countries are often harassment
\nof their trade relationship with exporting countries,\" API's
\nDeputy Chairman Chamroel Djafri told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Commenting on a report that the European Commission began
\ndumping inquiries on Monday into the European Union's (EU)
\npolyester yarn imports from Thailand, Indonesia and India,
\nChamroel said that importing countries often complain to
\nexporting countries without reason just to harass them.<\/p>\n
The commission's action, detailed in the EU's Official
\nJournal, followed a complaint by the Comite International de la
\nRayonne et des Fibers Synthetiques (CIRFS) on behalf of certain
\nEU producers of polyester filament yarns.<\/p>\n
Chamroel said when the EU declares dumping charges on foreign
\ntextile producers, its importers will automatically halt buying
\nproducts from those countries because they do not to pay anti-
\ndumping duties set by their governments. Such duties, therefore,
\nwill cause decline in imports from those countries.<\/p>\n
Acceptance<\/p>\n
He said dumping charges will be accepted by the European
\nCommission if they are filed by no less than 40 percent of the
\nEU's member countries and if the charged imports account for more
\nthan one percent of the charging countries' total imports of
\ncertain products.<\/p>\n
He said sanctions will only be applied to a country which
\nsells a product to an EU member at prices higher than the
\ncountry's domestic price or higher than the price of the same
\nproduct sold to other countries.<\/p>\n
He said all that Indonesia can do now is wait for the result
\nof the investigation by the European Commission. \"We will then
\nhire a lawyer to defend us at the European Commission forum,\"
\nChamroel said.<\/p>\n
If Indonesia is not proven to have dumped, the European
\nCommission will then have to recommend the cancellation of the
\ncharges, he said.<\/p>\n
\"If the council of ministers of the EU countries declaring the
\ncharges insist on continuing the investigation, we can appeal to
\nthe Court of Justice in the European Union,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Chamroel said Indonesia has asked the European Commission to
\nreview the charges because during their investigation, there was
\nonly one Indonesian firm which did not respond to questionnaires
\nfrom the European Commission. (02\/yns)<\/p>",
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