Chinese pressure cookers get anti-dumping reprieve

ALAN PEAT
HEY WANNA buy a cheap pressure cooker – wink, wink, nod, nod. You’ll get a price cut if you try one of those from China. The SA Revenue Service (Sars) has just amended Schedule 2 of the Customs and Excise Act so that “cookers with an airtight sealing mechanism and valve for releasing steam” - commonly known as pressure cookers - originating in or imported from China are now excluded from the payment of anti-dumping duty. But you’re not going to be so lucky with your cheap Chinese garlic, where trade and customs consultants Deloitte have told FTW that the International Administration Commission (ITAC) has just published its final recommendation. And this is that the existing anti-dumping duty of R6.07 per kilogram on garlic originating in or imported from China, be maintained. “In their investigation,” said Deloitte, “ITAC determined that the expiry of the existing anti-dumping duty would be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping and material injury to the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) industry.”