Page 369 - Manual Of SOP

Manual of OP for Trade Remedy Investigations

(iv) The PCN wise dumping margin is multiplied with the respective export
quantity supplied to India during the period of investigation and divided by
total quantity exported by the respective exporter to arrive at the weighted
average dumping margin for that exporter.

(v) Following illustration explains the methodology:

PCN Export Price Normal Value Export Quantity Dumping Dumping
($/MT) ($/MT) (MT) Margin ($/MT) Margin (%)
(3-2) (5/2)
1 2 3 4 5 6
A 100 150 1000 50 50%
B 150 135 2000 -15 -10%
C 200 250 1500 50 25%
Total 4500
*Weighted Average= [(50X1000)+ (-15X2000) +(50X1500)]/4500 =21.11%

(vi) In the above illustration, the Dumping Margin has been calculated on
weighted average basis .
5
DUMPING MARGINS IN CASE OF SAMPLING

LEGAL PROVISION

14.19. Article 6.10 of the AD Agreement provides that the investigating authorities
must, calculate an individual dumping margin for each known exporter or producer
of the product under investigation. However, the second sentence provides an
exception to the above principle, i.e., where the number of exporting producers is so
large as to make the determination of an individual dumping margin impracticable,
investigating authorities may limit their examination "by using samples".
Accordingly sampling is the only exception to the rule of individual margins .
6
14.20. The Indian provision for sampling is contained in Rule 17(3). If there are large
number of responses, the Authority may resort to sampling as per the methodology
explained in the Chapter 8.

5 Please refer to Para XIV of Chapter 24 for WTO Jurisprudence.
6 Please refer to Para XIV of Chapter 24 for WTO Jurisprudence.

346