Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 2018 · As enacted · Part I · Anti-Dumping Duties
31. Preliminary determination
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The Director-General shall make a preliminary determination of dumping, injury and causal link, not earlier than a period of two months and not later than a period of five months after initiation of the investigation, based on all information available to the Director-General at that time.
A public notice of the preliminary determination shall be issued by the Director-General, which shall set forth in sufficient detail the findings and conclusions reached on all
Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties issues of fact and law considered material, due regard being given to the requirement for protection of confidential information. The notice shall also contain —
the names of the known exporters and producers of the investigated product;
a description of the investigated product that is sufficient for customs purposes, including the harmonized commodity description and coding system classification;
the amount of the dumping margin, if any, found to exist and the basis for such determination, including a description of the methodology used in determining normal value and export price, and any adjustments made in comparing the two;
if the method of comparison provided for in subsection (2) of section 11 of this Act was used, the explanation required by that subsection;
if the Director-General declined to determine an individual dumping margin on the basis of voluntary responses as provided for in subsection (5) of section 13 of this Act, the basis for that decision;
the factors that have led to the determination of injury and causal link, including information on factors other than dumped imports that have been taken into account; and
the amount of any provisional measures to be applied and the reasons why such provisional measures are necessary to prevent injury being caused during the period of the investigation.
The Director-General shall publish the public notice in the Gazette, and in any newspaper widely circulated in Sri
Lanka in all three languages, and a copy of such notice shall be forwarded to the country or countries exporting the investigated product and to any other known parties interested.