§ Mr. J. H. Osbornasked the President of the Board of Trade what are the criteria which determine whether or not dumping duty should be imposed on imports into this country; and what criteria motivated the decision not only to impose a duty, but determined the scale of the duty, on nitrogenous fertilisers.
§ Mrs. Gwyneth DunwoodyThe criteria are those laid down in the Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act, 1969.
In my Answer on 5th March to a Question by the hon. Member for Aberdeen-shire, West (Mr. James Davidson) I explained the reasons for imposing provisional anti-dumping charges on certain imports of calcium ammonium nitrate. The G.A.T.T. Anti-Dumping Code requiries that such charges shall not exceed the provisionally estimated margin of dumping. The present charges in all cases are somewhat less than the 407W estimated dumping margins.—[Vol. 797, c. 157.]