§ Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will now take action to restrict the imports of bulbs for motor vehicles in cases where the imported price of such bulbs is no more than the cost of the materials required to manufacture the same kind of bulb in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. MeacherIf the industry concerned can make an application for antidumping action supported by reasonable prima facie evidence of dumping which is causing or threatening material injury, my Department ready to consider taking the appropriate action. I understand that the motor vehicle lamp bulb industry is in the process of making such an application. But low-priced imports are not necessarily dumped. Under our legislation dumping is considered to be taking place when, in the case of market economy country, the22W ex-factory price of the goods when sold domestically in the country of export is higher than the ex-factory price of the same goods when sold for export to the United Kingdom. In the case of a State trading country it is usual to compare the prices of goods coming from that country with the price of comparable goods coming into the United Kingdom from a third country.