The dumping margin on that model was calculated at 16.2 percent.

However, several rules are applied to the data before the dumping margin is calculated.

With cars, he said, the closed plants are a clear demonstration of injury but the dumping margin is more difficult to establish.

Once the hurdles are overcome, the Government will raise duties by the amount of the dumping margin.

Commerce Department officials declined to speculate on which industries might be the next to seek higher dumping margins.

Since the company alleges dumping margins of as much as 50 percent, potential benefits for it alone total $250 million.

Home market sales, sales to third countries or constructed costs are used in that order to determine dumping margins.

The Commerce Department also announced dumping margins for the telephone equipment imports.

The department concluded that the price differences, or "dumping margins," on which any import tariffs are calculated were relatively small.

The department thus set tentative "dumping margins" - that is, punitive tariffs - of roughly 150 percent.

If a foreign company refuses to provide information to the Commerce Department, the Government does not impose "the highest possible dumping margins."

Rather than inflate margins, it is designed to insure that dumping margins reflect up-to-date pricing practices.

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In 1984, an Italian company was convicted of a dumping margin of 1.16 percent on its exports of pads for woodwind instruments.

"The dumping margins we've found are substantial, and if they hold up in the final ruling, which we expect they will, it will substantially reduce imports."

The difference between the price (or cost) in the foreign market and the price in the U.S. market is called the dumping margin.

The duties are based on "dumping margins," or the differences in price between what a foreign company charges in the United States and what it charges at home.

To be hit by a dumping order can easily cripple a foreign company, especially since the Commerce Department can inflate the dumping margin in an annual review.

A determination of high dumping margins could lead to higher prices for computers in this country because it is on the basis of the e final margins that duties will be levied.

The commission said that without zeroing, the dumping margin in most of the 31 cases under review for dumping would be negligible or vanish, and no duties would be due.

If the I.T.C. makes an affirmative finding, the Commerce Department will issue an order instructing the Customs Service to collect duties determined by the dumping margins announced yesterday.

For Taiwan Nitsuko, the dumping margin was 129.73 percent, and it was zero for other Taiwanese manufacturers, which had convinced the Commerce Department that they were not dumping.

The Commerce Department can demand practically an infinite amount of information - and any refusal to comply is taken as a confession of guilt, after which it imposes the highest possible dumping margins.

A Complicated Formula The Commerce Department announced on July 2 that Japanese imports of portable and office word processors had been sold at a so-called dumping margin of 58.71 percent.

If the tribunal's decision had gone against Hyundai, the Korean company would have faced severe duty penalties on every car it imports to Canada, equal to the dumping margins set by Revenue Canada.