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Anti-dumping - paper and paperboard (with MIP)
What it is
Trade remedies on imported paper and paperboard, including anti-dumping duties and minimum import price proposals against China, Indonesia, Chile and others. Imports have risen with global overcapacity and ASEAN duty-free access
Domestic mills have sought protection repeatedly
Impact on industries
- Protection supports domestic realisation in a capital-intensive industry where capacity cannot be idled cheaply
- ASEAN free trade access allows duty-free entry that anti-dumping on other origins does not address, so imports reroute
- Raises input cost for publishers, packaging converters and printers downstream, the familiar protection-upstream cost-downstream pattern
- Effectiveness depends on rules-of-origin enforcement rather than on the duty rate itself