China's Ministry of Commerce announced Thursday that the span of the anti-dumping investigation of an imported chemical product, hydrazine hydrate, will be extended by six months.

The ministry said the extension of investigation period was due to "specialty and complexity of the case." The investigation involves exports from Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States and France.

 

The ministry announced on December 17 last year that it would began investigating to determine whether those four countries have "dumped" the chemical on China's market.

 

(Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2004)