Guidance

Factsheet: Interested parties' information

Published 7 February 2023

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Interested parties’ information

Factsheet Highlights

  • Registering
  • Difference between interested parties and contributors
  • Main types of duties
  • Payment of duties
  • Meetings and hearings
  • Refunds
  • Reconsiderations

Registering

If you believe that a good that you use or import is impacted by one of our investigations, or you wish to contribute to the investigation, you need to register on our online system, the TRS. Information on timescales for registration is contained on the Notice of Initiation, available on the TRS.

Difference between interested parties and contributors

Contributors and interested parties have different rights in our investigations. An interested party refers to any party directly involved in our investigation. For example, a foreign government, an exporter or importer of the goods concerned, a UK producer of the like goods or a trade association.

A contributor is a person or organisation who is not an interested party but who has contacted us to participate in an investigation or a review. Contributors cannot request hearings or reviews or ask for safeguards to be suspended and we don’t inform them of the details of our assessment.

Main types of duties

Provisional duties

Provisional anti-dumping measures can be applied to goods for up to six months and extended up to a maximum of nine months.

Provisional countervailing measures can be applied for up to four months. We may ask the importers to provide a guarantee to cover the duty amount they would incur if measures were made final.

Definitive duties

Our recommended measures should be applied to all the goods that are subject to the investigation. We may make different recommendations for specified exporters/certain foreign countries/categories of goods.

We can recommend that a measure be applied to goods for a maximum period of five years.

Payment of duties

If the Secretary of State accepts our recommendation, measures will start to apply the day after their notice is published and will be applied to the relevant good at the border, even if the goods are already in transit. The importer pays the duties, and HMRC collect them in the same manner as other import duties.

  • What are Trade Remedies
  • How the UK Trade Remedies System Differs From the EU System
  • Types of Review
  • Bringing an Application for Anti-dumping/Countervailing Measures
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