PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2010

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 23 PET planet insider Vol. 11 No. 05/10 www.petpla.net Y O U R PA R T N E R F O R B L O W M O U L D S . Benef i t of 30 Years of Exper ience in Blow Mould Manufactur ing! Sidel • SIG • Krones • SIPA • MAG • ADS • Kosme • Nissei a. o. Röders GmbH / Scheibenstr. 6 / 29614 Soltau / Germany / www.roeders.de Telephone +49 5191-603-53 / Fax +49 5191-603-36 / E-Mail mold@roeders.de For our subsidiaries in China, USA and Latin America please check our website. PET STRETCH BLOW MOULDS 2002 – 2003 when Australia exported 17 / 19 kmt PET to the EU. Two points should be made on the issue of dump- ing/anti-dumping: we need to differenti- ate between dumping and items sold at a lower price as a result of higher productivity or lower costs. The key factor which defines dumping is NOT the ratio of the export price and the ruling market price in the country to where the PET is imported. The defini- tion of dumping is if the export price is much lower than the price that would be achieved in the originating country. For this reason it may happen that it is not the entire complement of the goods (goods with a certain customs tariff number) from a country that has the anti-dumping duty levied on it, but only the goods from one or more manufacturers who sell their goods at dumping prices in the EU. At the beginning of May the Federal Ministry of Commerce, Family and Young People in Vienna/ Austria issued a statement via its publicly accessible home page that temporary anti-dumping duties are to be charged on PET with the Har- monized System Code 39076020 originating from Pakistan, Iran and the UAE as of June 3, 2010 at the latest. Responding to a request for information from PETPlanet Pulse, it was confirmed that these tem- porary anti-dumping duties will in any event apply for a period of six months; during this time a study will be undertaken into whether final anti-dumping duties of five years’ duration are to be introduced on goods from the countries specified. *As regards PET featuring the Harmonized System Code 39076020 we are dealing here with PET in its primary form with a viscosity number of 78 ml/g or more (the PET type which is predominantly used for the manufacture of pre- forms and beverage bottles). **Where the article mentions the EU, this refers to the 27 countries that have belonged to the EU since 2007. Where annual figures prior to 2007 are given in the graphics or in the article, the flow of goods referred to here relates to the countries that belong to the EU today. These are AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK. ***The source of the figures forming the basis of the article and the graphics is Eurostat. pulse The monthly PET price index! Subscribers to PETplanet Insider receive - in addition to the magazine - a monthly PET price newsletter: the PETplanet pulse . With informed comment and prices for both virgin PET and recycled material, PETplanet pulse is essential reading for the PET industry. For further details, please contact: reader@hbmedia.net