Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Act (No. 3) 2012 (196 of 2012)

Schedule 3   Sampling

Customs Act 1901

5   After section 269TAC

Insert:

269TACAA Sampling

(1) If:

(a) one of the following applies:

(i) there is an investigation under this Part in relation to whether a dumping duty notice or countervailing duty notice should be published;

(ii) there is a review under Division 5 in relation to the publication of a dumping duty notice or countervailing duty notice;

(iii) there is an inquiry under Division 6A in relation to the continuation of a dumping duty notice or countervailing duty notice; and

(b) the number of exporters from a particular country of export in relation to the investigation, review or inquiry is so large that it is not practicable to examine the exports of all of those exporters;

then the investigation, review or inquiry may be carried out, and findings may be made, on the basis of information obtained from an examination of a selected number of those exporters:

(c) who constitute a statistically valid sample of those exporters; or

(d) who are responsible for the largest volume of exports to Australia that can reasonably be examined.

(2) If information is submitted by an exporter not initially selected under subsection (1) for the purposes of an investigation, review or inquiry, the investigation, review or inquiry must extend to that exporter unless to so extend it would prevent its timely completion.

269TACAB Dumping duty notice - export prices and normal values for different categories of exporters

Uncooperative exporters

(1) If one of the following applies:

(a) there is an investigation under this Part in relation to whether a dumping duty notice should be published;

(b) there is a review under Division 5 in relation to the publication of a dumping duty notice;

(c) there is an inquiry under Division 6A in relation to the continuation of a dumping duty notice;

then:

(d) if the export price of goods for an uncooperative exporter is to be worked out in relation to the investigation, review or inquiry - that export price is to be worked out under subsection 269TAB(3); and

(e) if the normal value of goods for an uncooperative exporter is to be worked out in relation to the investigation, review or inquiry - that normal value is to be worked out under subsection 269TAC(6).

Residual exporters

(2) If:

(a) one of the following applies:

(i) there is an investigation under this Part in relation to whether a dumping duty notice should be published;

(ii) there is a review under Division 5 in relation to the publication of a dumping duty notice;

(iii) there is an inquiry under Division 6A in relation to the continuation of a dumping duty notice; and

(b) the investigation, review or inquiry is carried out on the basis of information obtained from an examination of a selected number of exporters as mentioned in subsection 269TACAA(1);

then:

(c) if the export price of goods for a residual exporter is to be worked out in relation to the investigation, review or inquiry - that export price must not be less than the weighted average of export prices for like goods of cooperative exporters from the same country of export; and

(d) if the normal value of goods for a residual exporter is to be worked out in relation to the investigation, review or inquiry - that normal value must not exceed the weighted average of normal values for like goods of cooperative exporters from the same country of export.

(3) To the extent that subsection (2) applies in relation to an investigation, the weighted average of export prices, and the weighted average of normal values, of the cooperative exporters must not include any export price or normal value if, in a comparison under section 269TACB involving that export price or normal value, the Minister has determined:

(a) that there is no dumping; or

(b) that the dumping margin, when expressed as a percentage of the export price or weighted average of export prices used to establish that dumping margin, is less than 2%.