The Australian newspaper of today carries a notice from the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service ("Customs") announcing the commencement of an investigation into the alleged dumping of hot rolled plate steel from Chin...

By way of notice in The Australian newspaper today, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service ("Customs") has advised of the imposition of securities on such steel products.  Securities do not require the payment of ad...

Within the last week, the Australian Minister for Home Affairs has issued directions to the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service to reinvestigate certain findings in relation to earlier investigations and measures appl...

Readers would be aware of earlier commentary on the signing of the Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement ("MAFTA") on 22 May 2012 and many of the provisions of the MAFTA. This has also been the subject of presentation of various...

Of recent time, various Federal Government agencies have commented that levels of compliance with Federal legislation have dropped and that perhaps it was time to increase penalties associated with various offences. The aim wou...

Readers will recall from our e-alert of 27 November 2012, we brought you news of the Report of the Brumby Review into Australia's anti-dumping regime. Our e-alert identified three main recommendations following that Review in t...