Brussels, 15/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Union has modified its definitive anti-dumping measures on the import of polyethylene or polypropylene sacks originating in India, in view of applying reduced rates to the many producer-exporters that have set up business in the country since the initial enquiry. The surtaxes they will have in principle to pay until next year - deadline for the measures taken in 1997 - are situated at 20.6% in most cases. This except for Pithampur Poly Products, whose margin of dumping is well below that of the 22 other firms concerned (or 6.7% against 17.2 to 33.5%), as well as Polyspin Exports and Polyspin Private on whom a single rate of 17.2% has been applied to avoid a circumvention of Community measures through the particularly close links observed between these two companies. Finally, the initial level of duties, at 33.5%, is applied to four traders which represent most of India's deliveries. Indeed, the investigation demonstrates that these companies - Gilt Pack, Kanpur Plastipack, Shankar Packaging and Neo Sack - had provided "false and misleading" information and that they had even "deliberately falsified" certain documents, the regulation published in the Official Journal L 267 states. Several irregularities have been established by European Commission experts, notably the "incorrect notification of the types of products, specifications, export destinations, quantities and/or amounts of the invoices and export documents, and that in the aim of bolstering average export prices to levels that are not the subject of dumping". They also observed "the deliberate omission of transactions or the presentation of unusable accounting information", also revealing that "the description of products, quantities and weights on the official documents supplied by independent importers and customs authorities often differ from those presented in on the spot checks and information communicated to the Commission". They then stipulate: in at least two cases, it transpired that "importers were incited to hand in falsified documents".