Evasion of anti-dumping duty hurts Taiwan: MOEA

19/12/2011 12:00 - 380 Views

Some Taiwanese businessmen operating in China have been using Taiwan to evade anti-dumping levies, a move that hurts Taiwan's overall business sector, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOFA) said Wednesday.

The European Union imposes anti-dumping duties on certain imports originating from China. In order to circumvent these duties, some Taiwanese businessmen operating in China have therefore been shipping their exports to the 27-nation bloc via Taiwan to evade the anti-dumping duties, which has hurt law-abiding businesses in Taiwan, according to the ministry's Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT).

The EU has imposed anti-dumping duties on Taiwanese exporters of lighters, welded pipeline gears, and the herbicide glyphosate, who have been found to have deliberately evaded anti-dumping duty, a BOFT official said.

According to World Trade Organization (WTO) data collected between 1995 and 2010, Taiwan was ranked No. 3 among WTO members for the number of anti-dumping cases, while China was ranked No. 1, with South Korea ranked No. 2 and the United States at No. 4.

The data shows that so far, the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body has found 590 cases of anti-dumping among companies in China.

By Lin Shu-yuan and Ann Chen

Source: focustaiwan.tw