{"id":59921,"date":"2015-12-15T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T10:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/egypt-launches-safeguard-investigations-on-polyethylene-terephthalate-pet\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T10:11:45","slug":"egypt-launches-safeguard-investigations-on-polyethylene-terephthalate-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/egypt-launches-safeguard-investigations-on-polyethylene-terephthalate-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Launches safeguard investigations on polyethylene terephthalate (PET)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> GENEVA, Switzerland, December 15, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>On 14 December 2015, Egypt notified the WTO\u2019s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 8 December 2015 a safeguard investigation on Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). The notice of initiation by the investigating authority was published in the Official Gazette on 10 December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In the notification, Egypt indicated as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterested parties must make themselves known to the investigating authority within a period of 30 days after publication of the notice of the initiation of the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any information which the interested parties may wish to submit before the investigating authority should be submitted in writing; and any request for a hearing should be submitted within 30 days following the initiation of this investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The address of the competent authority for correspondence is:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Trade and Industry\u00a0<br \/>Antidumping, Subsidy, and Safeguard Body<br \/>Head of Antidumping, Subsidy, and Safeguard Body \u201cIbrahim El Seginy\u201d<br \/>Extension of Ramses St.,Nasr, City \u2014 Cairo\u00a0<br \/>El Maleya Towers \u2014 Tower No. 6 \u2014 9th floor\u00a0<br \/>Tel: (202) 23422479\u00a0<br \/>Fax: (202) 23420784\u00a0<br \/>E-mail: itpd@tas.gov.eg<br \/>Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.tas.gov.eg\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available in\u00a0G\/SG\/N\/6\/EGY\/13.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>What is a safeguard investigation?<\/p>\n<p>A safeguard investigation seeks to determine whether increased imports of a product are causing, or is threatening to cause, serious injury to a domestic industry.<\/p>\n<p>During a safeguard investigation, importers, exporters and other interested parties may present evidence and views and respond to the presentations of other parties.<\/p>\n<p>A WTO member may take a safeguard action (i.e. restrict imports of a product temporarily) only if the increased imports of the product are found to be causing, or threatening to cause, serious injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA, Switzerland, December 15, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; On 14 December 2015, Egypt notified the WTO\u2019s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated on 8 December 2015 a safeguard investigation on Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). The notice of initiation by the investigating authority was published in the Official Gazette on 10 December 2015. In the notification, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-59921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}