HC Deb 12 February 1980 vol 978 cc618-22W
Mr. Stanbrook

asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will list the number of anti-dumping complaints made to the European Commission by United Kingdom organisations for the current and each of the last five years, respectively, giving the result in each case.

Mr. Parkinson

The European Commission did not assume responsibility for taking anti-dumping action on behalf of United Kingdom industry until July 1977. Details of cases with a United Kingdom interest subsequently opened for investigation, excluding cases involving iron and steel goods subject to the special ECSC anti-crisis measures, are as follows:

Case opened Commodity Country of origin Result
1977 (first half) Housed bearings … … … Japan … … … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporter.
Piezo electric quartz crystals … … Japan … … … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporter.
Unalloyed wrought titanium … … Japan … … … … … … … … … Closed through changed circumstances.
Kraft liner (paper) … … … USA, Sweden, Finland, Canada, Portugal Australia and USSR … Duty against USA; price undertakings from all other exporters.
Hole punching machines … … Japan … … … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporter.
1978 … … Chemical wood pulp … … … Canada, USA, Finland and Sweden … … … … … Closed through changed circumstances
Polyamide and polyester high tenacity yarn USA … … … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporter.
Plywood … … … … South Korea … … … … … … … … No dumping found.
Styrene butadiene rubber … … German Democratic Republic Poland and Romania … … No case found for action.
Rosin … … … … … Sweden … … … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporter.
Vinyl acetate … … … … USA … … … … … … … … … Closed through changed circumstances.
Electric light bulbs … … … Hungry, Poland, German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia. Investigation proceeding
Sodium carbonate … … … Bulgaria, German Democratic Republic Poland, Romania and USSR. Duty imposed against USSR; price undertakings received from all other exporters.
Fire building board (hardboard) … Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, USSR, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Investigation proceeding
Herbicide (DINOSEB) … … Romania … … … … … … … … … Duty imposed.

Case opened Commodity Country of origin Result
1979 … … Gas tubes … … … … Spain and Romania … … … … … … … Undertaking from Spain; case still open against Romania.
Integral horsepower electric motors … Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, USSR, Bulgaria and Romania. Investigation proceeding.
Steel flanges … … … … Spain … … … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporter.
Motor car tyres … … … Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. Investigation proceeding.
Dressed bovine leather(countervailing/subsidisation). Brazil … … … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporter.
Chipboard … … … … Sweden and spain … … … … … … … Price undertaking from exporters.
Cotton yarn … … … … Turkey … … … … … … … … … Investigation proceeding.
Saccharin … … … … Japan China USA … … … … … … Investigation proceeding.
Stereo cassette player heads … … Japan … … … … … … … … … Investigation proceeding.
Mechanical alarm clocks … … German Democratic Republic, USSR, Czechoslovakia, China and Hong Kong. Investigation proceeding.
Cold formed steel sections … … Romania … … … … … … … … Investigation proceeding.
Ball bearings … … … … Japan, USSR, Poland and Romania … … … … Investigation proceeding.
Seamless steel tubes … … … Spain … … … … … … … … … Investigation proceeding.
Acrylic fibre … … … … USA, Japan, Spain, Turkey and Greece … … … … Duty imposed against USA; undertaking from Spanish exporter; Turkey and Greece—no dumping case still open against Japan.
Anchor chains … … … … Sweden and spain … … … … … … … Investigation proceeding.
Stainless steel bar … … … Brazil … … … … … … … … … Investigation proceeding.