Titanium white powder South Korea anti-dumping case ends Export benefits welcome "Golden Nine"

China Coatings Online News Information:
8, 2015, CoCMO Chemical of Korea submitted anti-dumping investigation application materials. On December 29, 2015, the Korea Trade Commission decided to launch an anti-dumping investigation against China's Jinhongshi titanium dioxide powder, with the customs code of the products involved as 3206.11.0000.
China Titanium White Powder Industry Association actively organize and assist enterprises to do a good job in responding to the investigation and other work, in the export anti-dumping cases to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. With the active efforts of China Trade Promotion Association, China Titanium White Powder Industry Association and China Titanium White Powder Enterprise, which lasted more than 8 months, the South Korean authorities today officially announced the "termination of this anti-dumping investigation".
March 28, 2016, the Korea Trade Commission (KTC) held a hearing on South Korea's anti-dumping case against Chinese-made titanium dioxide to hear the views of all parties involved, except the applicant.
meeting was hosted by KTC and chaired by the head of the damage investigation team in the case, with members of the dumping investigation team present. China Trade Promotion Association Legal Affairs Department, China Trade Promotion Association Enterprise Rights and Interests Protection Center, China Titanium White Powder Association, Sichuan Longyu Group, Henan Yulilian Chemical Co., Ltd., Ningbo Xinfu Titanium White Powder Co., Ltd., Korea Paint ink Association, Korea Titanium White Powder Use Enterprise, Korea Longyu agents and other South Korean importers and south Korean downstream industry representatives attended the meeting.
Liu Chao, vice-minister of legal affairs at the China Council for the Promotion of Trade, said that over the past decade or so, Chinese titanium dioxide enterprises have established a friendship of mutual trust and mutual benefit with downstream enterprises in South Korea, and the occasional shutdown of individual Korean enterprises is due to market changes and poor management, which has nothing to do with the normal export of Chinese enterprises. At the same time, in the history of the WTO, it is extremely rare to open anti-dumping investigations on the grounds of "obstructing the establishment of industry", and it is more sensitive to open the case at the beginning of the entry into force of the China-ROK FTA. The China Council for Trade Promotion expressed concern and attention to the follow-up development of the case, urged the South Korean investigation authorities to deal with damage investigation and dumping investigation in an impartial and compliant manner, and hoped that a non-injury ruling would be made and the case should be dropped in accordance with the law.
On March 29, 2016, the Legal Department of the China Council for the Promotion of Trade, the Center for the Protection of Corporate Rights and Interests, and the Korea Titanium White Powder Case Response Lobbying Delegation organized by the China Titanium White Powder Industry Association held talks with the Korea Coating Ink Association. The two sides exchanged in-depth views and reached consensus on case response and industry consultations. The two sides will actively respond to and cooperate with each other in the follow-up investigation. Vice President Ni Haiyan of the Korea Representative Office of the China Council for the Promotion of Trade attended the talks.
On March 30, the Chinese delegation held talks with the Korea Trade Association, and Vice Minister Liu Chao of the Law Department of the China Council for the Promotion of Trade and the Director of the Korea-China FTA Integrated Support Center, Li Changxuan, exchanged in-depth views and reached consensus on the implementation of the China-ROK FTA and the enhancement of commercial legal services, while lobbying in depth on the anti-dumping case against China. The two sides will learn from each other's experience, give full play to their own advantages and better serve the business communities of the two countries. Deputy General Representative of the South Korean Representative Office Nie Haiyan attended the talks. In the evening, the head of the Economic and Commercial Affairs Department of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea was briefed on the case.
Fu Onejiang, Deputy Secretary-General of China Titanium White Powder Industry Association, said that enterprises in the anti-dumping process, the need for the government's help and guidance, but also need the coordination of industry associations, coordination of the interests and mutual relations between enterprises, while in the market, statistics, industry information and other aspects of providing professional services for enterprises, forming a good situation for enterprises and industry associations to jointly safeguard the interests of the state and industry.
Exports have been an important factor driving the rapid growth of China's titanium dioxide industry, China's titanium dioxide industry in the high-end product market has begun to make efforts to improve quality to win the recognition of the international market on the basis of price advantage, China's titanium dioxide in the international market competitiveness further improved, increasing export volume, statistics show that since January-June this year, titanium dioxide exports total 348506.326 tons, an increase of 28.04 percent year-on-year. Today, the end of South Korea's anti-dumping case, export benefits like to welcome the "Golden Nine."
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