WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SG/56
31 October 2002
(02-6007)
Committee on Safeguards Original:  English
IMPORTS OF PEDESTAL ACTUATORS OF CHINESE ORIGIN
INTO THE UNITED STATES
Request for Consultations Pursuant to Section 16.1 of Part I of
the Protocol on the Accession of the People's Republic of China
The following communication, dated 25 October 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States.
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On 23 October 2002, the United States requested consultations with the Government of the
People’s Republic of China, pursuant to Section 16.1 of Part I of the Protocol on the Accession of the
People’s Republic of China, with a view to seekin g a mutually satisfactory solution regarding market
disruption to US domestic producers caused by imports  of pedestal actuators of Chinese origin into
the United States.
The consultations request was made following a determination by the United States
International Trade Commission (ITC), pursuant to section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(19 U.S.C. 2451), that pedestal actuators of Chinese origin are being imported into the United States
in such increased quantities or under such conditions as to cause market disruption to the domesticproducers of like or directly competitive products (Investigation No. TA-421-1, Pedestal Actuators
from the People’s Republic of China).
For purposes of its investigation, the ITC considered pedestal actuators to consist of
electromechanical linear actuators, imported with or without motors, or as part of scootersubassemblies, all the foregoing used for lifting and lowering, or for pushing or pulling.  The products
include any subassembly of pedestal actuator part s and components.  Pedestal actuators are powered
by fractional horsepower DC or AC motors, which drive a ball bearing screw or acme screw through a
gear reducer to convert rotary to linear motion.  The products are designed for flat or base mounting,
have telescoping members, with bearings or bearing surfaces, and rigidly support the load and provideanti-rotation.  Pedestal actuators are provided for in subheadings 8483.40.50 and 8483.40.80 and in
heading 8501 of the Harmonized Tariff System of the United States.
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