Canadian International Trade Tribunal rules on dumping of Dutch peppers

Canadian International Trade Tribunal has made a final determination upholding the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers’ complaint of injurious dumping by the Netherlands of bell peppers into the Canadian marketplace. The complaint, which was filed on Dec. 24, 2009, alleged that imports of greenhouse bell peppers originating or exported from the Netherlands were being dumped and that the dumping of these goods was causing injury to the Canadian industry.
This announcement follows the Canadian Border Services Agency’s final determination in September that greenhouse bell peppers from the Netherlands had been dumped, and that the margin of dumping was significant. Bell peppers released into Canada from the Netherlands are now subject to a duty for the next five years.
Earlier this year, OGVG requested that Canadian Border Services Agency investigate the unfair pricing of greenhouse sweet bell pepper imports from the Netherlands. This request reflected the OGVG’s belief that Dutch exporters were selling below their cost of production into the Canadian marketplace. This had continued over a period of years, and OGVG said the dumping has caused serious injury to Ontario growers. OGVG’s concerns were shared and supported by greenhouse producers in other provinces.
Canada’s Special Import Measures Act permits Canadian producers to seek the imposition of anti-dumping measures when they are injured by foreign producers selling into Canada below the selling prices in their own country, or below their costs of production.