Factsheet: Trade remedy investigations in other countries
Published 7 February 2023
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Trade Remedy Investigations in Other Countries
Factsheet Highlights
- What investigations do other countries run?
- How can you get involved?
- What’s involved?
- Getting guidance
What investigations do other countries run?
Under WTO rules WTO countries have the right to apply trade remedies (also known as trade defence instruments), including running anti-dumping and countervailing investigations. How these rules are applied may vary from country to country.
How can you get involved?
If the goods you produce become subject to a trade remedy measure investigation, you may decide you want to input into that investigation. So you will need to register as an interested party and co-operate with the investigation.
If your industry argues successfully against the measures, or you can demonstrate that you are not dumping, measures might not be imposed either at all or against your company. Alternatively if you co-operate, even if measures are imposed, you may obtain a lower individual duty rate.
What’s involved?
You may be required to fill in questionnaires, provide data, communicate regularly with the investigating authority and support visits from their representatives to your premises. It can be resource intensive, and it is up to each industry member to decide if the effort is justified by the export market. Many industries engage trade remedy professionals to help them.
Getting guidance
The TRA’s work focusses on goods imported into the UK, where UK industries are facing unfair trade practices or sudden unforeseen import surges. We can’t provide guidance or advice to UK exporters on the specifics of their responses to trade remedy investigations elsewhere.
The Export Support Service provide advice regarding a range of export related issues and can be contacted on 0300 303 8955 or at www.gov.uk/ask-export-support-team.