EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Home Affairs
Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Act (No. 1) 2012
Proclamation
Item 2 of subsection 2(1) of the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Act (No. 1) 2012 (the Act) provides for Schedule 1 to the Act to commence on a single day to be fixed by Proclamation.
Item 2 also provides that if the provisions in Schedule 1 do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which the Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period.
The purpose of the Proclamation is to fix 10 June 2013 as the day on which Schedule 1 to the Act commences.
Schedule 1 to the Act amends the Customs Act 1901 to implement aspects of the Government’s Streamlining Australia's anti-dumping system policy by:
a) Establishing a new appeals process to replace the existing appeals mechanism established in the legislation;
b) Establishing the International Trade Remedies Forum which will be a stakeholder body of representatives from manufacturers, producers and importers, as well as industry associations, trade unions and relevant Government agencies;
c) Providing for flexible extensions to timeframes for an investigation, review of measures, continuation inquiry or duty assessment to enable:
- robust analysis where investigations involve particularly complex arrangements, or involve large numbers of countries or interested parties; and
- consideration of a response to critical new information that could not reasonably have been provided earlier.
The Proclamation is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
Authority: Subsection 2(1) of the Customs Amendment
(Anti-dumping Improvements) Act (No. 1) 2012