Introduction:
There is an increasing wave of trade protection activity worldwide, such as anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards. Our clients rely on Consulenza solid experience in the full spectrum of trade remedies. They count on our daily assistance, as well as on our delivery of successful results.
We help you to monitor prices and analyze trade flows, so you can receive early warnings of forthcoming trade remedy risks an essential factor in commercial planning for a global business.
In close collaboration with your team, and in full knowledge of your industry, we develop a defensive or offensive strategy under tight deadlines.
We then analyze the possibilities to adapt existing trade remedies to the best interests of your business, we listen to your concerns and advise what is best for you in given circumstances. In ongoing procedures, you will benefit from our ability to perform complex calculations and implement effective negotiations with investigating authorities, let us assist in government affairs strategies in the process leading to final decisions.
Our team has helped globally active clients in an extensive number of anti-dumping and other trade remedy proceedings in many countries and other jurisdictions worldwide, our hands on experience covers direct representation in investigations, hearings, undertaking negotiations and all types of reviews, including refund and anti-circumvention investigations. Tap our global know-how to help you handle the trade remedy risks of the present day and achieve positive outcomes, which are vital to your cross-border business objectives.
Anti Dumping Investigations
In view of our extensive experience, we have built up a strong network of contacts at all levels of the Commission and Member State administrations with whom we have an excellent working relationship, we also provide strategic advice to clients who wish to prepare for future anti-dumping actions or who wish to manage the aftermath of an anti-dumping measure, including interim and sunset reviews, anti-absorption and anti-circumvention investigations as well as refund applications.
- Assessment of costs and benefits of cooperating in an anti-dumping or countervailing duty proceeding and its future implications on the exports of the client to your country and its effects on the global business of the exporter
- Assessment of the injury analysis in the petition submitted by the complaining industry to the Authorities.
- Analysis of the product scope of the investigation and the product scope of the exporter.
- Preparation of the responses to the questionnaires at the premises of the exporter.
- Analysis of the model based cost accounting system of the exporter and developing cost accounting system to respond the questionnaire.
- Design of model matching methodology for the investigated product types (differences in quality and sales conditions, physical characteristics, etc.) and the exported types by the Client.
- Calculation of the adjustment-allowances to be claimed to reduce the possible dumping margin, and preparation of domestic, export and 3rd country sales databases.
- Preparation of the cost of production databases for all of the exported and domestically sold product types.
- Representation during the verification visits in the premises of the exporters.
- Analysis of the arm’s length prices of inputs purchased from the affiliated parties.
- Calculation of cost of productions in economies which are considered to be “non-market" by reference to the best and available data sources.
- Accessing to all non-confidential documents, and preparation of rebuttal arguments on the injury determinations.
- Developing rebuttal arguments on the dumping or subsidy margin calculation methodology on the preliminary and final determinations.
- To make necessary consultation with the state Anti-Dumping Authority whenever necessary to present our views and objections on the proceedings to better defend the interests of our Client.
- Translation of all relevant documents and questionnaires on the investigation from language state into English and translation of responses from English to your language.
- Advising the clients about the developments in the case and possible timing of any provisional or final duties to guide the clients to minimize the negative effects of the continuing investigation on the exports of the client.
- We also advise the customers (importers in state) of the clients to follow up the proceeding.
- We also guide the existing customers of our Clients to continue their business during the most of the proceeding period until the risks of possible duties are obvious to protect the interests of the exporters.
Safeguard Investigations
Safeguard measures may be considered as “emergency” actions against steeply increasing imports which have caused or threaten to cause serious injury to the importing Member’s domestic industry.
In fact, safeguard measures are suspension of concessions or obligations which may be applied in the form of quantitative import restrictions (quotas) or of duty increases over bound rates of the importing country. Safeguard measures must be temporary which means that they must be liberalized over time.
Safeguard measures may only be imposed when imports are found to cause or threaten serious injury to a competing domestic industry. Safeguard measures are unlike the anti-dumping and countervailing measures since there is no “unfair” trade practice from the exporter side.
In trade policy investigations, classifies the countries in two groups as WTO members and other countries. While observing WTO rules for member countries, Authority is not bound by the principles of the Safeguard Agreement for non-members.
Subsidies and Countervailing Duty Investigations
Within the WTO system subsidies are considered another kind of “unfair practices” in international trade along with anti-dumping practices. Countervailing measures are imposed on the exporters should these subsidies cause or threaten to cause injury on the domestic industry to remove the injury caused by subsidized imports.
Having more than 26 years of experiences in Anti-Dumping Practices, we provide all the services like the anti-dumping investigations from the very beginning to the conclusion of the subsidies investigations. For details please refer to Anti Dumping services section or for more details contact with our office.