Australia drops dumping charges against RI's paper products

Australia drops dumping charges against RI's paper products

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta

The Australian government has dropped its dumping allegations
against two Indonesian export paper products, according to an
Indonesian envoy.

Trade and industry attache at the Indonesian Embassy in
Canberra Sutriono Edi was quoted Sunday by Antara as saying that
the decision was made after the Australian Customs Service
completed an investigation process.

Sutriono said that there was no evidence to prove the charges
of dumping continuous computer paper and A4 copy paper.

He said that the Australian Ministry of Justice had approved
the recommendation issued by the Australian Customs Service.

Sutriono said that although the Australian industry that
produced similar products had suffered from "material injury", it
was not caused by the alleged dumping of the Indonesian products.

The Australian Customs Servive investigation explored whether
giant paper manufacturer PT Tjiwi Kimia and several other
Indonesian paper producers had dumped their export products.

The investigation revealed that the volume of imported paper
from Indonesia was only two percent of total Australian paper
imports, an amount that can not give any "material injury" to
Australian paper producers.

Sutriono, however, warned the Indonesian exporters and related
associations to be aware of future potential Australian dumping
accusations, especially if export volumes were more than three
percent of Australia's total imports.

Indonesian paper exports to Australia totaled US$58 million
from January to September 2001.