Singapore legislation

Regulation 19

of Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties Regulations 1997

Regulation 19

Cumulation in countervailing duty investigation

Where imports of goods from more than one country are the subject of a countervailing duty investigation, the Minister may, for the purpose of determining whether injury exists, cumulatively assess the effects of such subsidised imports on the domestic industry only if —

(a)

the petitions are filed simultaneously;

(b)

the Minister determines that the amount of countervailable subsidisation established in relation to the imports from each country is more than de minimis as specified in regulation 24 and the volume of imports from each country is not negligible as specified in regulation 25; and

(c)

the Minister determines that a cumulative assessment of the effects of the imports is appropriate in the light of the conditions of competition between the imported goods and the conditions of competition between the imported goods and the like domestic goods.