About Us
The “Trade Remedies Advisory Cell” (TRAC) is set up at the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (under Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India) with a vision to provide holistic support to the domestic industry in the preparation of applications, collating relevant information or data and providing legal advice for trade remedial investigations before anti-dumping and safeguard authorities of India.
The services provided by TRAC are free of cost. TRAC or any of its officials do NOT charge any fee for their pro-bono services to the domestic industry.
Our Mission
Trade remedial actions require analysis of complex legal and factual issues.
Participation in the investigation process involves the preparation and
submission of several documents at different stages of the investigation,
replies to the submission by respondents, written submissions, rejoinders,
hearings, etc. TRAC provides legal support to the domestic industry throughout
the investigation, including applications for requesting initiation of a trade
remedial investigation, preparation of documents, representations before the
Designated Authority, etc.
TRAC provides its legal, cost accounting, and economic services with an aim to
ensure that the domestic industry avails the benefits of trade remedial
measures without financial and legal implications.
TRAC provides three types of expertise to the domestic industry to ensure an
all-inclusive assistance during trade remedy application and investigation
processes:
- Legal Expertise
- Cost Accounting Expertise
- Economic Expertise
Legal Expertise
Trade remedial actions require analysis of complex legal and factual issues. Participation in the investigation process involves the preparation and submission of several documents at different stages of the investigation, replies to the submission by respondents, written submissions, rejoinders, hearings, etc. TRAC provides legal support to the domestic industry throughout the investigation, including applications for requesting initiation of a trade remedial investigation, preparation of documents, representations before the Designated Authority, etc.
Cost Accounting Expertise
Costing information and its analysis is a consequential area to secure any trade remedial measure available to the industry. TRAC assists the domestic industry in evaluating the quantum and order of injury inflicted. The Cell also assist in recording, organizing, analyzing, and reporting the relevant costing information and facts as per the regulatory requirements. The Cell also assists the domestic industry to familiarise itself with utilization of cost information.
Economic Expertise
The foremost challenge that any domestic industry stakeholder adjoins is ‘data-gaps’, i.e., the lack of information/data from the industry peers. TRAC assists in filling this void by conducting market research, data analysis, and statistical modelling to support the domestic industry’s petitions for trade remedies investigations.
The Cell assists the applicant with a variety of application proformas, and questionnaires during the application and investigation and fill-in data gaps such as estimates of normal values, evidence of dumping, evidence of injury, and a causal link to it. TRAC also assists the applicant to organize, analyze and present the crucial internal costing data required as evidence of dumping.
HOW DO WE ASSIST THE DOMESTIC INDUSTRY?
Application and
Investigation
- Edifying regarding the trade remedial measures available and applicable, and passageway for their optimal utilization
- Evaluating the trend and volume of injury and applying to avail corresponding trade remedy
- Assessing the factual scenarios and preparing of application
- Representing Domestic Industry throughout the investigation
- Support the applicant during the investigation, whenever required.
Document and
Data Preparation
- Compiling, organising, and recording varied data required for the respective application and investigation
- Assisting in allocation and apportionment of expenses for assessing the quantum of dumping
- Mapping data to the application proformas/format and questionnaires
- Preparing various applications proformas i.e. formats for Anti‐dumping, countervailing applications
Filling the
Data Gaps
- Within the company i.e. our expert would assist and advise to compile and organise the applicant data as per the requirement of the application
- From the peers in industry (peers’ support is required to initiate the investigation)
- Information on the imported goods causing the injury.