13. Individual dumping margins

The Director-General shall as a rule, determine an individual dumping margin for each known exporter or producer of the investigated product.

Where the number of exporters, producers, importers or types of the investigated product is so large as to make it impracticable to determine an individual dumping margin for each known exporter or producer, the Director-General may limit the examination either to a reasonable number of parties interested or investigated products, by using samples which are statistically valid on the basis of information available to the Director-General at the time of the selection, or to the largest percentage of the volume of the exports from the country in question which can reasonably be investigated.

Any selection of exporters, producers, importers or types of products made under subsection (2), shall preferably be chosen in consultation with and with the consent of the exporters, producers or importers concerned.

Where the Director-General has limited the examination under this section, it shall nevertheless determine an individual dumping margin for any exporter or producer who voluntarily submits the necessary information in time for that information to be considered during the course of the investigation.

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (4), where the number of exporters or producers is so large that individual examinations would be unduly burdensome to the Director-General and prevent the timely completion of the investigation, the Director-General may decline to determine an individual dumping margin on the basis of voluntary responses, and limit the examination to the exporters and producers in the sample.