On August 18th, 2020, Trade Remedies
Authority of Vietnam (TRAV) acknowledged the Dossier on request of
investigation to impose the anti-dumping measures to Sorbitol chemical products
originated from China, India and Indonesia from the
companies representing the domestic industry (Requester). If there is
anti-dumping actions, the anti-dumping investigation will be initiated and
related parties would cooperate with TRAV to provide data as required.
On
the basis of assessing the Dossier, on September 30th, 2020, TRAV
had confirmed the sufficiency of the dossiers according the the laws on trade
remedy.
Within
45 days from the date of receiving sufficient and lawful dossier, TRAV will
assess dossier to submit Minister of Ministry of Industry and Trade for
consideration whether to process the investigation.
The
assessment’s contents includes:
-Identify the legal
representative status of the domestic industry of organizations and individuals
who submit dossier in accordance with the Law on Foreign Trade Management;
-Define evidence on the
dumping of imported goods that cause or threaten to cause significant losses to
a domestic manufacturing industry or substantially prevent the formation of a
domestic manufacturing industry.
In order
to serve the assessment process, as well as to ensure the legitimate rights and
interests of the enterprise, TRAV recommends that the domestic enterprises
manufacturing trading in the same goods mentioned above provide the following
information.
-Enterprise’s
information;
-Capacity/design
and production of Sorbitol chemical products in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020;
-Enterprise’s
opinion on the case (to agree, oppose, have no opinion);
-Any
document/evidence which companies consider to be related to the case
Our
competition, anti-dumping, and countervailing
duty lawyers of international trade and tax practice at ANT Lawyers, a law firm in
Vietnam always
follow up trade remedy development to update clients on regular basis.
