By Liz White, UT staffBeijing-In the continuing saga on toluene diisocyanate dumping in the People's Republic of China, China's Ministry of Commerce announced on 10 Jan that it was adjusting the antidumping tax rates on imported TDI-in accordance with the mid-term reexamination it instituted 3 Feb 2005. After its investigation, China's commerce ministry said it will impose an antidumping tax of 12.45 percent on TDI imported from Japan's Mitsui Takeda Chemicals Inc., 4.05 percent on the Republic of Korea's DC Chemical Co., 5.08 percent on the Korea Fine Chemical Co., 15.78 percent on BASF Co. and 61.14 percent upon other Korean companies. No details of how these levels differ from former duties were given, but the duties are generally lower than those listed by UT in 2003. The original TDI anti-dumping evaluation was set up in 2002 to look at whether imports from the US, Japan and Korea during 2001 were dumped. "
