Singapore legislation
Regulation 41
Regulation 41
Information from interested parties
Subregulation 1
Any interested party may submit, in writing to the Minister, information that it considers relevant to any countervailing or anti-dumping duty investigation or review.
Subregulation 2
An interested party may submit the information orally but the party must, if it wishes to have the information taken into account, reduce the oral information to writing and properly submit it to the Minister within 7 days from the date of the oral submission.
Subregulation 3
An interested party must provide 5 copies of the confidential version of the submission and 3 copies of the non-confidential version.
Subregulation 4
Any document submitted which is not in the English language must be accompanied by a translation in English, unless the Minister, in writing, waives this requirement for an individual document.
Subregulation 5
The Minister may require submission of factual information on computer tape or discs compatible with the computer system specified by the Minister unless the Minister is satisfied that the party submitting the information does not maintain records in computerised form or cannot supply the requested information in computer format without unreasonable additional burden in time and expense.
Subregulation 6
All information submitted must be certified as accurate and complete and must be in such form as may be specified by the Minister.
Subregulation 7
Subject to section 35 of the Act, written information submitted by any interested party must be made available to other interested parties involved in the investigation.
Subregulation 8
A party submitting information may apply to the Minister to treat the information as confidential —
if its disclosure would be of significant competitive advantage to a competitor;
if its disclosure would have a significant adverse effect upon the party supplying the information or upon a party from whom that party acquired the information; or
for any other good cause shown.