AD Agreement

Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994; WTO agreement concerning anti-dumping measures.

AWU

Australian Workers' Union

CEO

Unless otherwise specified, refers to the Chief Executive Officer of Customs

CFMEU

Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union

Countervailing measure

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

Customs

Australian Customs and Border Protection Service

Customs Act

Customs Act 1901 (Cth)

DAFF

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Dow

Dow Chemical (Australia) Pty Ltd

Dumping

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

Dumping duty

A measure imposed on imported goods to offset the effects of injury caused by dumping

LIV

Law Institute of Victoria

Non-injurious price

The minimum price necessary to remove the injury caused by the dumping and/or subsidisation.

PAD

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.

Private senator's bill

Unless otherwise specified, refers to the Customs Amendment (Anti-Dumping) Bill 2011

Qenos

Qenos Pty Limited; applicant for the review that was ultimately considered in the Siam decision

Report 134

Report No. 134: Linear Low Density Polyethylene—The Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Korea and Thailand—Review of Anti-Dumping Measures; Customs' May 2008 report to the Minister after the review undertaken at Qenos' request. This report was considered in the Siam decision.

SCM Agreement

Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures; WTO agreement concerning subsidies and countervailing measures.

Siam

Siam Polyethylene Co Ltd, a Thai exporter of linear low density polyethylene

Siam decision

Minister of State for Home Affairs v Siam Polyethylene Co Ltd [2010] FCAFC 86

TMRO

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.

US—DRAMS

Dispute between the United States and South Korea heard by a WTO Panel: United States—Anti-dumping duty on Dynamic Random Access Memory Semiconductors (DRAMS) of one megabit or above from Korea, WT/DS99/R

WTO

World Trade Organization