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Compendium of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws in the Western Hemisphere

Updated version as of October, 1999

  1. Legal Authority to Impose Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
    1. Treaties or Agreements
    2. Legislation
    3. Regulations
    4. Administrative Practice, Handbook or Guide
  2. Authorities Responsible for Conducting Investigations
    1. Injury
    2. Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
  3. Methodologies/Definitions
    1. Like Product
    2. Domestic Producers
    3. Standing
    4. Polling
    5. Normal Value
    6. Calculation of Cost of Production
    7. Export Price
    8. Export Price - Adjustments
    9. Injury
    10. Threat of Injury
    11. Material Retardation
    12. Cummulation
    13. De Minimis Provisions
      1. Antidumping
      2. Countervailing
    14. Margin of Dumping
    15. Subsidy Rate
  4. Steps of the Investigation
    1. Petition Filing
    2. Initiation of Investigation
    3. Issuance of Questionnaire
    4. Response to Questionnaire
    5. Preliminary Determination
      1. Injury
      2. Antidumping
      3. Countervailing
    6. Conduct Verification
      1. Antidumping
      2. Countervailing
    7. Hearings
      1. Antidumping
      2. Countervailing
    8. Briefs
    9. Final Determinations
    10. Maximum Length of Investigation
    11. Maximum Duration of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders
    12. Retroactivity
    13. Best Information Available (or "Facts Available")
    14. Consumers as Interested Parties
    15. Public Interest
      1. Antidumping
      2. Countervailing
    16. Undertakings or Commitments
  5. Review of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Determinations
    1. Annual Reviews
    2. Duty Refund Review
    3. Sunset Review
    4. Changed Circumstances Review
    5. New Shipper Reviews
      1. Antidumping
      2. Countervailing
      3. Judicial, Administrative or Other Review
    6. Procedures For Due Process
      1. Notification of Initiation of Investigation
      2. Questionnaires (Distribution, Response Time, Extensions, Supplements)
      3. Publication of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Determinations
      4. Access to Public Information
      5. Access to Confidential Information
      6. Decision Making Process (Ministerial Approval, Commission Vote, etc.)
    7. Application and Collection of Duties
      1. Suspension of Liquidation
      2. Use of Bonds or Cash deposits
      3. Methods of Liquidation
    8. Other
      1. Anti-Circumvention

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