Anti-dumping Investigations

Standing of industry to apply for anti-dumping or countervailing duties investigations in Global Commerce Policy

In this regard, standing of industry to apply for anti-dumping or countervailing duties investigations is: describes the minimum industry participation which is needed for an application for an investigation of alleged dumping to be accepted by the relevant autorities. The formula given by the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (the Anti-dumping Agreement) and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures is this. The agreements assume that domestic producers of the like product will either support an application, oppose it or not express a view either way. These producers together make up the total production of the like product produced by the domestic industry. The share of production by the industries not expressing a view is then set aside. This leaves those who support or oppose an application. The entries on trade policy are here. An application is then considered successful and to have been made by or on behalf of the industry  if producers representing at least 50% of the production made by this group support the application. However, no investigation may be launched if this group in fact represents less than 25% of the total production of the like product produced by domestic industry. The following example may help. The entries on trade policy are here. Assume that the domestic industry producing the like product consists of 100 firms each accounting for 1% of the total output of the like product. The entries on trade policy are here. It now is evident that 20% of these firms (20% of the total output of the like product) have no view on whether alleged dumping should be investigated. That leaves 80 firms accounting for 80% of total production. The entries on trade policy are here. If 60 of these firms (i.e. three-quarters of them) support the call for an investigation, the application will be successful since they account for 60% of total domestic production of the like product. The entries on trade policy are here. In practice, calculating industry support for an investigation isn ™t anywhere near this simple.[1]

Standing of industry to apply for anti-dumping or countervailing duties investigationsin the wold Encyclopedia

For an introductory overview on international trade policy, see this entry.

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Notes and References

1. Dictionary of Trade Policy, “Standing of industry to apply for anti-dumping or countervailing duties investigations” entry (OAS)

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