Imposition of Anti-dumping Duty on the Unbleached Kraft Liner/Linerboard Importe

Promulgation date: September 30, 2005 Effective date: September 30, 2005
Pursuant to the provisions of Anti-dumping Regulations of the People's Republic of China, Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has decided to levy anti-dumping duty on the Unbleached Kraft Liner/Linerboard imported from and originally produced in the US, Thailand, Korea and Taiwan for a period of 5 years commencing from September 30, 2005. Based on Announcement No. 60 (2005) of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (See Attachment 1 for details), relevant matters are hereby announced as follows:
　　
1. The Customs will levy anti-dumping duty and import value-added tax on the Unbleached Kraft Liner/Linerboard imported from and originally produced in the US, Thailand, Korea and Taiwan (Tariff Serial Numbers: 48041100, 48043100, 48044100 and 48045100) pursuant to the applicable tax rate listed in Attachment 2 hereto and the following formula discriminately according to different Unbleached Kraft Liner/Linerboard providers in addition to import duty levied on the same in line with the existing provisions as of September 30, 2005.
　　
Amount of anti-dumping duty= duty-paid value× anti-dumping duty rate
　　
Amount of import value-added tax=(duty-paid value+ amount of Customs duty +amount of anti-dumping duty)×import value-added tax rate
　　
See Attachment 1 hereto for detailed description of the products subject to anti-dumping duty.
　　
2. The following products do not fall within the scope of products subject to anti-dumping duty this time:
　　
i. Unbleached Kraft Liner/Linerboard, each square meter of which is less than 115 grams or otherwise exceeds 360 grams;
　　
ii. Ordinary Linerboard, namely, Linerboard wholly made from the pulp derived from recycled paper (shredded paper) or cardboard;
　　
iii. Paper or cardboard wholly or primarily made from bleached sulphate wood pulp or cardboard whose surface is made of paper derived from dyed or bleached unrecyclable pulp but whose other layers are made of cardboard made from pulp derived from recycled (shredded) paper or cardboards;
　　
iv. Saturated kraft paper.

3. Given that the products under the Tariff Serial Numbers of 48052400 and 48052500 of the 6 tariff serial numbers listed in Attachment 1 are all excluded from the scope of products subject to anti-dumping according to the description of the scope in Attachment 1 hereto, such two tariff serial numbers will not be included into the scope of products subject to anti-dumping duty.
　　
The import units shall declare to the Customs according to 10 Customs merchandise codes and description of merchandises as listed in Attachment 3 hereto pursuant to the Rules on Classification of Merchandises in time of importing the aforesaid merchandises subject to anti-dumping duty.