Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices - Informal Group on Anti-Circumvention - Bundling of Invoices to Circumvent Anti-Dumping Duties and Price Undertakings - Paper from New Zealand

World Trade Organization G/ADP/IG/W/52 8 March 2007 (07-0955) Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices Informal Group on Anti-Circumvention Original: English "BUNDLING" OF INVOICES TO CIRCUMVENT ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES AND PRICE UNDERTAKINGS Paper from New Zealand The following communication, dated 6 March 2007, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of New Zealand. _______________ Background Trade remedy measures in the form of anti-dumping duties or the acceptance of an undertaking can be applied when an administering authority has established, after an investigation, that dumped imports have caused material injury or threatened material injury to a domestic industry. Such duties can take several forms and are applied in order to offset the effects of those injurious imports. If, however, exporters and importers circumvent such determinations and avoid paying any duties that have been levied then the measure is rendered ineffective