Saccharin from China - USITC

***“Because of the anti-dumping duty order, we started importing saccharin from Japan and India. Themarket prices went up from the level of around US$4 per kilo to US$8 per kilo in 2003.”***“The company only imported small quantities late in 2008 due to shortage of supply late in the year.”***“The significance of the order is limited for *** since *** does not import any Chinese origin saccharin,nor did *** import Chinese origin saccharin before the order was issued. However, as our supplier, ***,doesn’t produce saccharin (raw material) by itself, and needs to source it from others, *** has been losingits flexibility of sourcing.”***“The antidumping duty order has allowed *** to sell saccharin made in India, a business that has beengrowing over the last three years.”***“We have made 3 importation of Saccharin since 2003. Once we learned about the pending saccharinanti-dumping case, we have made a commercial decision not to import saccharin moving forward.”***“Our business was initially negatively impacted for two years as we sourced product from othercountries.”***“Given that prior to the anti-dumping order, ***’s purchases and sales of saccharin were an insignificantpart of its business, the implementation of the anti-dumping order confirmed ***’s intention todiscontinue offering the product at the end of 2004.”***“Biggest impact was pricing (increase).”***“***.”***“The dramatic importation of Shanghai Fortune’s saccharin into the U.S. makes the antidumping tariffagainst Chinese producers a joke. They have abused their 0% reduction and purchase from most plantsforbidden to ship to States. It is as if there is no antidumping tariff in effect. They found a way around theD-6