The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation (MOFTEC) issued a notice Thursday saying it would initiate an anti-dumping investigation into polystyrene imports from Japan, South Korea and Thailand.
Products involved in the investigation include general polystyrene and high impulsion-resistant polystyrene.
The investigation is expected to end within a year, unless the companies under investigation successfully petition for an extension, in which case it will last 18 months, a MOFTEC official said.
MOFTEC and the General Administration of Customs are set to decide, based on evidence collected in the next months, whether and to what extent Japanese, South Korean and Thailand polystyrene producers have been dumping their products on the Chinese market.
The State Economic and Trade Commission and other relevant departments under the State Council will conduct further investigations into the extent to which polystyrene imports from Japan, South Korea and Thailand have damaged domestic industries.
This campaign represents the seventh anti-dumping case that China has initiated against foreign producers.
(China Daily 02/09/2001)
