Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations

Australia’s anti-dumping and subsidy legislation is based on WTO agreements and rules that provide:

• Where goods are exported to Australia at prices less than the prices at which those goods are sold in the country of export and because of that price discrimination are causing, or threatening to cause, material injury to an Australian industry producing like goods, then anti-dumping measures in the form of special customs duties may be imposed to prevent such injury
• Where goods being exported to Australia that receive government certain countervailable subsidies in the country of export and because of such subsidies those exports are causing, or threatening to cause, material injury to an Australian industry, then countervailing duties in the form of special customs duties may be imposed to prevent such injury

Dumping and subsidy investigations by the relevant government investigating authority are required to be conducted to positively establish that the ground for the imposition of anti-dumping measures exist before sch measures may be imposed on exports to Australia.

Andrew has acted in numerous major anti-dumping and subsidy investigations and successfully represented exporters, importers and foreign governments, including appeals to the Anti-Dumping Review Panel and Federal Court of Australia.