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A3P
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Australian Plantation Products & Paper Industry
Council
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ABS
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Act
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Customs Act 1901 (Cth)
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ACTU
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Australian Council of Trade Unions
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AD Agreement
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Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994; WTO agreement concerning
anti-dumping measures
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AIG
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Australian Industry Group
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AMWU
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Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
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ASA
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Australian Steel Association
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AWU
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Australian Workers' Union
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CBSA
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Canada Border Services Agency
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CEO
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Unless otherwise specified, refers to the Chief Executive
Officer of Customs
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CFMEU
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Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
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Countervailing measure
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Duties imposed on imports that benefit from any of a
specified group of government subsidies and which cause or threaten material
injury to a local industry producing like goods
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Customs
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Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
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DAFF
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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DFAT
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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DIISR
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Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
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DRET
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Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
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Dumping
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Defined by the WTO as a situation of international price
discrimination where the price of a product when sold in the importing
country is less than the price of that product in the market of the exporting
country
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Dumping duty
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A measure imposed on imported goods to offset the effects
of injury caused by dumping
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GATT
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1994)
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Government's bill
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Unless otherwise specified, refers to the Customs
Amendment (Anti-Dumping Measures) Bill 2011
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IIT
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Institute for International Trade
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Kimberly-Clark decision
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Decision by the Federal Court in Kimberly-Clark
Australia Pty Ltd v Minister for Home Affairs [2011] FCA 225 which upheld
the 6 January 2010 decision by the Attorney-General to revoke a dumping duty
notice related to certain toilet paper products exported to Australia from
China and Indonesia, and the two anterior decisions that led to it.
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LCA
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Law Council of Australia
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LIV
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Law Institute of Victoria
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PAD
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Preliminary Affirmative Determination; a decision that
allows provisional measures to be imposed from day 60 of the investigation if
there appears to be, or it appears there will be, sufficient grounds for the
publication of a notice
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SCM Agreement
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Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures;
WTO agreement concerning subsidies and countervailing measures
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TMRO
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Trade Measures Review Officer; an officer in the Attorney‑General's
Department that provides an administrative appeal mechanism for the review of
certain decisions made by the Minister or by the CEO of Customs
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USITC
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United States International Trade Commission
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WTO
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World Trade Organization
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