It was published today in the Official Gazette Circular SECEX 63, of October 02, 2015, issued by the Secretariat of Foreign Trade, initiating an anti-dumping sunset review in Brazil on the imports of Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EBMEG) from USA.

The product under investigation is commonly classified under the position 2909.43.10 of the Mercosur Common Nomenclature (NCM).

The review was requested by Oxiteno Nordeste e Oxiteno S.A. Indústria e Comércio, representing the domestic industry.

The period of investigation is from January to Decembrer 2014 for the analysis of dumping and from January 2010 to December 2014 for the analysis of injury.

The argued dumping margin is 4,4% for USA.

The interested parties (producers/exporters from the investigated country, as well as the Brazilian importers) will receive Questionnaires in the next days, to be responded and returned to the investigating authorities within 40 days.

The cooperation allows an exporter to have control over the outcome of the investigation and to ensure that any duties imposed are based on accurate data. Moreover, the cooperating exporters may be subject to individual dumping margins, which tend to be lower than the "all others" margin. In this context, we strongly advise exporters from the investigated country to participate in this investigation.

It is very important that exporters of the product provide detailed responses to the questionnaires on the due date, in order to allow the authorities to apply lower anti-dumping duties to the exports from the investigated origins to Brazil, or no anti-dumping duty at all.

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