Local TV makers expect they will have the opportunity to fully
express their views at an anti-dumping hearing to be held by the US
Department of Commerce next April.
The hearing will be the next opportunity for them to prove their
legitimacy after an investigation panel sent by the department
finishes its work in China.
The panel was sent to four local companies -- Sichuan Changhong
Electric Co, Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronic Co (Xoceco), Konka
Group Co and TCL Holding Co -- earlier this month for on-the-spot
checks.
The four companies were selected as respondents in the
anti-dumping investigations into Chinese-manufactured color sets as
the panel does not have the resources to investigate all 12
companies who responded to the case.
On November 24, the department said in a preliminary ruling that
some Chinese television makers were dumping their products at 27.94
percent to 78.45 percent of their real prices in the US market.
By defining China as a non-market economy, the anti-dumping
rules use costs of production in a surrogate country, where
material and labor costs are much higher than in China, to
calculate the normal value of Chinese exports.
This time, the United States chose India as the surrogate
country, despite the fact that China's TV industry has a high
degree of competition and is fully market-oriented.
(China Daily December 26, 2003)