Yesterday the court ruled against Farm Frites in their urgent attempt to stop ITAC making a decision that would likely see them facing punitive anti-dumping duties on frozen potato chips from Netherlands. The matter was heard in the urgent court on Monday […]
The preliminary safeguard duty on frozen chips expired and ITAC have agreed to not take a decision on the final safeguard duty until they have completed the anti-dumping investigation. Now that the anti-dumping investigation is nearing closure, we should hopefully see a […]
The applicant (Scaw Metals) never applied for the anti-dumping duties on wire rope from China to be extended, which means that these anti-dumping duties have now fallen away, paving the way for Chinese wire rope to once again enter the South African […]
In spite of the complete response on TOFA having been filed with ITAC in January 2014, ITAC have still not scheduled a verification visit on TOFA from Sweden.
In a very peculiar decision, ITAC opted to not verify any of the cooperating importers and exporters in the above matter. In an even more peculiar turn of events, ITAC not only didn’t verify, but also imposed lower provisional duties than the […]
It would appear as if ITAC are moving to take a final decision on the frozen chips matter on Tuesday, 13 May 2014. One of the Dutch exporters, Farm Frites was not verified by ITAC due to what appears to be minor […]
ITAC issued verification reports for Wiesenhof (German producer) and Frisia (Dutch producer). 7 days have been given to respond to these reports (up to the 16th May) and then the non-confidential versions of these reports will be placed on the public file. […]
This application for a duty increase on Vitreous Enamels has closed for comment and ITAC should be making a decision on the request for the increase in duty on the 13th May 2014.