Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Act 1982 (Cth)

Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Act 1982

No. 114 of 1982

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975 consequent upon the enactment of the Customs Tariff Act 1982 and for related purposes

[Assented to 22 November 1982]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Act 1982.

(2) The Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 19751 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which the Customs Tariff Act 1982 comes into operation.

 

Dumping duties

3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-paragraph (7) (c) (i) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(i) the tariff classification in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1982 that applies to the goods, or, where the goods are goods to which section 27 of that Act applies, the item in Part I of Schedule 4 to that Act that applies to the goods is expressed to apply to goods, or to a class or kind of goods, as prescribed by by-law; and”; and

(b) by omitting sub-paragraph (7) (d) (i) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(i) the tariff classification in Schedule 3 to that Act that applies to the goods is such that no duty is payable in respect of the goods or the duty payable in respect of the goods is at a rate equivalent to a rate payable under Part I of Schedule 4 on the goods; and”.

Countervailing duties

4. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-paragraph (8) (b) (i) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(i) the tariff classification in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1982 that applies to the goods, or, where the goods are goods to which section 27 of that Act applies, the item in Part I of Schedule 4 to that Act that applies to the goods is expressed to apply to goods, or to a class or kind of goods, as prescribed by by-law; and”; and

(b) by omitting sub-paragraph (8) (c) (i) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(i) the tariff classification in Schedule 3 to that Act that applies to the goods is such that no duty is payable in respect of the goods or the duty payable in respect of the goods is at a rate equivalent to a rate payable under Part I of Schedule 4 on the goods; and”.

Saving

5. Notwithstanding the amendments of the Principal Act made by this Act, any notices under sub-section 8 (7) or 10 (8) of the Principal Act that were in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continue in force but section 20 of the Principal Act as amended and in force from time to time applies in relation to those notices.

 

NOTE

1. No. 76, 1975. For previous amendments, see No. 66, 1981 and No. 53, 1982.