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 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.
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