The Commission on Dumping, Subsidies and Elimination of Non-Tariff Trade Barriers of Indecopi (CDB) initiated, at the request of the national production company Tecnología Textil SA, an examination procedure of the antidumping duties imposed on imports of 100% plain weave fabrics. polyesters of Chinese origin.
The objective of the new procedure is to determine the possible evasion of payment of antidumping duties, imposed to combat unfair trade practices that affect national production and economy.
What happened? Since antidumping applied to the import of a certain size of plain fabric (up to 1.80 cm wide), importers began to bring bales a few centimeters larger. Furthermore, since it was aimed at shipments from China, they began to bypass Malaysia.
Let’s go in parts. Through Resolution 100-2023/CDB-INDECOPI, the Commission identified reasonable indications that the importers of the aforementioned textile product, after having imposed antidumping duties (in August 2022), would avoid paying them, under two modalities. .
Thus, since December 2022, taffeta enters Peru modified in its width, without paying antidumping duties applicable to 100% polyester plain weave fabrics.
However, both products have identical characteristics of composition, finish, ligament, weight and fiber type, according to a previous analysis by the CBD.
Indecopi: Chinese taffeta now arrives in Malaysia
In addition to this, a change has also been identified in the commercial route for imports. Thus, imports of 100% polyester plain weave fabrics have been registered, declaring Malaysia as country of origin, when in reality they would be from China.
“Between October 2022 and September 2023, imports from Malaysia represented the majority of imports (89.5%),” warns Indecopi.
Even these imports are made through a Malaysian company, which is dedicated to the marketing of construction materials, hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies, and not textile fabrics, according to information presented in the complaint.
It should be noted that the initiation of this examination (investigation) procedure occurs thanks to the application of Law 31089, which combats circumvention practices of those imports that seek to evade or avoid the payment of antidumping or countervailing duties imposed to correct the distortions in the market, and that harm the national industry.
Source: Larepublica
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