The former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation issued announcement on Jun 20, 2002, announcing to start imposing anti-dumping duties on dichloromethane originating from Britain, the United States, Netherlands, Germany and the Republic of Korea, the duration of which was 5 years as from Aug 16, 2001. During the investigating period, the dichloromethane originating from France accounted 2.6 percent of the total imported volume, which could be ignored. With consultations with National Economic and Trade Commission, the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation decided to terminate anti-dumping investigation on dichloromethane originating from France.

In March 2003 the newly organized Ministry of Commerce was authorized to carry out anti-dumping investigations during the first session of the National People’s Congress. And Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 3, 2006 on Feb 16, 2006, announcing that if the termination of anti-dumping duties may leads to a continuous or recurrent dumping and injury, the time limit of anti-dumping duties may properly prolonged, and as from the issue of the announcement, domestic industries may put forward review application in written form to Ministry of Commerce 60 days before the termination of the former anti-dumping measures.

On Jun 15, 2006, Ministry of Commerce received formal final review application from 2 enterprises that represent China dichloromethane industry to apply for final review on anti-dumping measures for dichloromethane originating from Britain, the United States, Netherlands, Germany and the Republic of Korea. In accordance with relevant regulations of Anti-dumping Measures of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Commerce carried out relevant investigations, finding out that the above three enterprises are qualified to represent domestic dichloromethane industry; and their application letter includes required contents and relevant evidences for registration of the anti-dumping review investigation in line with item 48 and 49 of Anti-dumping Measures of the People’s Republic of China.

In accordance with above investigation results and item 16, 48, 49 and 51 of Anti-dumping Measures of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Commerce decided to carry out final review investigation on dichloromethane originating from Britain, the United States, Netherlands, Germany and the Republic of Korea as form Aug 15, 2006. Related matters are now announced as follows:

The review period is from Apr 1, 2005 to Mar 31, 2006 and the industry injury investigation period is from Jan 1, 2001 to Mar 31, 2006.
The scope of the commodities is equal to the commodities regulated in the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Announcement No.20, 2002 with the PRC customs import tariff code of 29031200.