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14/01/2009 12:00
OVERSEAS producers and importers of toilet paper plan to appeal against an Australian Customs Service decision to impose thousands of dollars of dumping penalties on them.
They have threatened to take their case to the Federal Court if their appeal fails.
The group, all members of Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas, which owns the Asian Pulp & Paper group, were hit with dumping notices just before Christmas when Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus endorsed the findings of a year-long customs investigation.
The investigation was sparked by complaints from Australia's two largest toilet paper producers.
Paper producers PT Pindo Deli in Indonesia and Gold Hong Ye in China, and effectively the local importing company Paper Force (Oceania), are now being penalised between 8 per cent and 40 per cent on the invoice value of their imports.
Paper Force has now put on hold plans to open a paper converting plant in NSW.
The toilet paper was largely being brought in to supply the Woolworths supermarket brand "Select".
Paper Force spokesman Steve Nicholson said the group would "vigorously defend" its position, arguing that the customs service breached its own and World Trade Organisation anti-dumping rules, and that local paper makers were not significantly injured by imports.
They have threatened to take their case to the Federal Court if their appeal fails.
The group, all members of Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas, which owns the Asian Pulp & Paper group, were hit with dumping notices just before Christmas when Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus endorsed the findings of a year-long customs investigation.
The investigation was sparked by complaints from Australia's two largest toilet paper producers.
Paper producers PT Pindo Deli in Indonesia and Gold Hong Ye in China, and effectively the local importing company Paper Force (Oceania), are now being penalised between 8 per cent and 40 per cent on the invoice value of their imports.
Paper Force has now put on hold plans to open a paper converting plant in NSW.
The toilet paper was largely being brought in to supply the Woolworths supermarket brand "Select".
Paper Force spokesman Steve Nicholson said the group would "vigorously defend" its position, arguing that the customs service breached its own and World Trade Organisation anti-dumping rules, and that local paper makers were not significantly injured by imports.
Ian McIlwraith
January 14, 2009
Source: business.theage.com.au
January 14, 2009
Source: business.theage.com.au
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