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Brazil initiates scope assessment of the antidumping measures on imports of glass tableware items from Argentina, China and Indonesia.
On January 04, 2019, Brazil’s Special Secretariat of Foreign Trade and International Affairs of the Ministry of Economy published Notice of Initiation No. 4/2019, initiating scope assessment of the duties applied on imports of glass tableware originating from Argentina, China and Indonesia. The product is commonly classified under items 7013.49.00, 7013.28.00 and 7013.37.00 of the Mercosur Common Nomenclature – NCM (HS based).
The petitioner is Batiki Comércio Importação e Exportação Ltda, which required the scope assessment to the product “glass mug with cover and straw and 500 ml capacity”. The CAMEX Resolution No. 126/2016, which extended the antidumping measures, defines the product which is object of the antidumping measure as “products, of soda lime silicate glass, used to receive and serve food, to domestic or commercial use”. The Resolution also excluded the following products of the antidumping measure application: “I – glasses, decanters, bottles, carafes, jugs, dishes and all glasses in general used by the food industry to store all types of jam; II – mugs with capacity bigger than 301 ml, commonly used to store beer and; III – glass tableware items manufactured with borosilicate (refractory glass), rotating glass trays and rotating glass table centerpieces.”
The interested parties, through their legal representatives, must submit its willing to be part of the procedure until February 19, 2019. The same deadline is applied to require meetings with the authorities. Otherwise, the deadline to present written submissions or any evidences is 30 days from the beginning of the assessment, ending in March 06, 2019. The Notice of Initiation No. 04 can be accessed at the following link (in Portuguese).
