Author: Ojasvi Nautiyal, Legal Associate The Ministry of Finance on 8th December 2021 issued an Office Memorandum stating its decision not to impose anti-dumping duty recommended by the DGTR on imports of Caprolactam from European Union, Korea RP, Russia and Thailand. The DGTR had issued its final findings on 27th September 2021 pursuant to a […]

Anand Nandakumar and Dhanya P.K., Associates The WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement mandates that an investigating authority should calculate individual dumping margins for all cooperative producers/exporters from the subject country. However, in investigations where there are a large number of cooperative producers/exporters, calculating individual dumping margins for each of them may not be feasible. In such exceptional […]

A mid-term review is referred to as a review conducted by the Designated Authority after an anti-dumping or countervailing duty is imposed and before the expiry of the said duty. Mid-term reviews can be initiated on receipt of an application from any interested party after a lapse of a reasonable period of time. However, the […]

Author: Ojasvi Nautiyal, Legal Associate The US Department of Commerce (DOC) on 20th September 2021 published amendments to the present anti-dumping and anti-subsidy regulations under Part 351 of Title 19, Tariff Act of 1930. These amendments to the present law are intended to strengthen the administration and enforcement of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy regulations and to […]

Author: Kalpesh Gupta, Senior Consultant The issue of trans-national subsidies and treatment thereof in anti-subsidy investigations has been a topic of debate for a very long time. With no place in the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (“ASCM”), the investigating authorities have been left quite perplexed regarding the manner in which such subsidies may […]

Author: Aastha Gupta, Joint Partner Safeguard measure can be invoked when the imports of a product increases, due to unforeseen developments, and causes injury to the domestic industry. The key ingredients required to invoke safeguard measure are (a) there must be increased imports of a product, (b) the increase in imports must be a result […]