56. Duration of an anti-dumping duty

An anti-dumping duty shall remain in force as long as, and to the extent necessary, to counteract dumping which is causing injury.

Any definitive anti-dumping duty shall stand terminated on a date not later than a period of five years from its imposition or from the date of the most recent review under section 57, if that review has covered both dumping and injury.

The Director-General shall, not later than a period of three months preceding the date of expiry of the definitive anti-dumping duty, publish a notice in the Gazette and in any newspaper widely circulated in Sri Lanka in all three languages, of the impending expiry of any anti-dumping duty. A definitive duty, however, may not expire, if the Director-General determines, in a review initiated before the date of expiry on his own initiative, or upon a duly substantiated request made by or on behalf of the Sri Lankan industry within a period of one and a half months from the public notice of impending termination of the definitive anti-dumping duties concerned, that the expiry of the duty would be likely to lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury. The duty may remain in force pending the outcome of such a review.