Bill
Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013
passed, as at 2013-06-28. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-05-29
- second reading — 2013-05-29
- committee — 2013-06-04
- second reading — 2013-06-06
- second reading — 2013-06-17
- second reading — 2013-06-17
- committee — 2013-06-17
- committee — 2013-06-17
- third reading — 2013-06-17
- introduced — 2013-06-19
- second reading — 2013-06-19
- second reading — 2013-06-25
- second reading — 2013-06-25
- third reading — 2013-06-25
- passed — 2013-06-25
- royal assent — 2013-06-28
Divisions
- Richard Colbeck I rise to make my contribution on the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013. This is the fifth instalment of antidumping legislation this government has presented. It has taken a while to get there, but we continue to go through the process. This piece of legislation does a couple of things. Firstly, it removes the minister's mandatory obligation to consider the so-called lesser duty rule. It also provides closer alignment of retrospective duties provisions within the relevant WTO agreements and introduces new anticircumvention provisions that widen the range of options available to government, including to address the practice of sales at a loss and attempts by foreign producers to evade the full payment of duties. We have seen in recent weeks the concerns that industry players have expressed in relation to their competitiveness—particularly in the Shepparton district of Victoria, where SPC Ardmona has requested emergency assistance and consideration of emergency duties under the WTO provisions. I think that particular action by SPC Ardmona—their concern about their competitiveness and their concern that there may be countries who are dumping product into Australia—demonstrates the importance to this country of having effective antidumping measures. Although I do accept that the government has made a number of changes—as I said, this is the fifth in a series of changes this government has made over the last couple of years—concerns exist in the broader community that the current regime remains expensive to access. The opposition has for a considerable period of time had an antidumping policy on the table. As with previous incarnations of changes made by the government, they go some way towards meeting the policy we have put in place. So we welcome them and we support this piece of legislation and the measures within it. I do not need to go into the details of the opposition's antidumping proposals. But I, along with a couple of others, — 2013-06-25, Senate: negative, ayes 11, noes 35
- Scott Ludlam The question is that these bills be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bills read a second time. In respect of theee Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013, the question is that amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 7411 revised, circulated by the Australian Greens, be agreed to: (1) Schedule 1, page 4 (after line 14), after item 6, insert: 6A Subsection 269TAC(2A) After subsection (2), add: (2A) Where the Minister is satisfied that because the situation in the market of the country of export is such that sales in that market are not suitable for use in determining a price under subsection (1), regardless of subsection (5D), the normal value of goods is the amount determined by the Minister having regard to all relevant information, including by reference to costs of production calculated on the basis of records kept by the exporter or producer, provided that: (a) such records are in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles of the exporting country; (b) such records reasonably reflect the costs associated with the production and sale of the like goods under consideration; and (c) the costs incurred are not affected by the particular market situation. (2) Schedule 1, page 4 (after line 14), after item 6, insert: 6B At the end of Division 1 of Part XVB Add: 269TBAA Access to import data (1) For the purposes of subsection 16(2) of the _Customs Administration Act 1985_, a person is authorised to make a record of, and to disclose to any person, protected information (within the meaning of that section) that is import data. (2) Despite section 12 of the _Census and Statistics Act 1905_ and any determination made under section 13 of that Act, the Statistician (within the meaning of that Act) must publish all import data. (3) For the purposes of this section, _import data_means the following information about individual shipments of goods exported to Australia: (a) country of origin; (b) the type of goods; (c) the volume of the s — 2013-06-25, Senate: negative, ayes 11, noes 36
- Scott Ludlam The question is that amendment (1) on sheet 7418, circulated in the names of Senator Xenophon and Senator Madigan, be agreed to: (1) Schedule 1, page 4 (after line 14), after item 6, insert: 6A At the end of Division 1 of Part XVB Add: 269TBAB Reporting information about imports into Australia (1) The Commissioner must: (a) establish a publicly available free website; and (b) publish on the website, and keep updated, such information as prescribed by the regulation made for the purpose of this subsection. (2) The regulation made for the purpose of paragraph (1)(a) must: (a) include details of the kind of information that the Commissioner must publish, and keep updated, on the website; and (b) include a requirement that the following information about individual shipments of goods exported to Australia be published on the website: (i) the country of origin of the shipment; (ii) the type of goods in the shipment; (iii) the volume of the shipment; (iv) the value of the shipment. (3) Before recommending that the Governor-General make a regulation for the purpose of this section, the Minister must consult with the Commissioner about the kind of information that should be published on the website. — 2013-06-25, Senate: negative, ayes 11, noes 37
- Long debate text truncated. — 2013-06-25, Senate: negative, ayes 11, noes 36
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