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Part I · Anti-Dumping Duties

48. Imposition and collection of anti-dumping duties

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

Anti-dumping duties shall take the form of ad valorem or specific duties, and shall be imposed in addition to other import duties levied on the imported products concerned.

(2)

Anti-Dumping duties shall be collected by the

Director-General of Customs and the provisions of the

Customs Ordinance relating to collection of duties, shall mutatis mutandis apply to and in relation to the same.

(3)

Except in the circumstances provided for in subsection (4), the Director-General shall establish an individual anti-dumping duty for each known exporter or producer of dumped imports concerned.

(4)

When the Director-General has limited the examination in accordance with the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of section 13 of this Act, any anti-dumping duty applied to imports from exporters or producers not included in the examination, shall not exceed the weighted average dumping margin established with respect to the selected exporters or producers, provided that the Director-General shall disregard for the purpose of this subsection, any zero or de minimis margins and margins established under the circumstances referred to in section 26.

(5)

Except as otherwise provided for in subsections (4)

and (5) of section 13 of this Act, the Director-General shall apply individual duties to imports from any exporter or producer not included in the examination who has provided the necessary information during the course of the investigation.

(6)

The Minister in charge of the subject of Finance may apply an anti-dumping duty rate for imports from exporters and producers not known to the Director-General at the time the final determination was made. Such anti-dumping duty rate shall not exceed the weighted average of the individual dumping margins established for exporters and producers examined during the investigation, excluding margins established under the circumstance referred to in section 26

of this Act.

Part II

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Part III

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