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Original Investigations ADD Investigations during the same period which
consisted of 18 investigations initiated during
6.5 As mentioned above, 6 (six) Original ADD previous year and 4 investigations initiated during the
Investigations were initiated during 2018-19, which current year. The year-wise break-up of the total
consisted of initiations against 19 countries. The original investigations initiated and finalized can be
Directorate issued 22 findings pertaining to Original summarised as under:

Investigations Initiated and Final Findings issued by DGTR

2017-19. A case wise list of final findings issued
6.6 The Government imposed 16 new measures
based on the recommendations contained in the final during 2018-19 is given at Annexure IV. This
findings issued. Out of 16 impositions, the country wise almost eliminated the pendency in the case
impositions are 31. of original anti-dumping investigations. The
number of on-going original investigation as on
6.7 It is clearly seen from above, that the highest
31.03.2019 was merely 2 (two), which is the lowest
ever final findings were issued during the period ever number.

TIME TAKEN FOR COMPLETION OF INVESTIGATIONS

The highest ever final findings numbering 58 were issued during 2017-18 followed by 53 final findings during
2018-19. The number of days, counted from the date of initiation to issue the final finding has come down to
281 days during 2018-19 as against more than 400 days during the previous years. For example, the
investigation, from initiation to final finding, pertaining to Graphite Electrodes was completed in 126 days
and investigation for Melamine was completed in 150 days.

Review investigations: 6.9 New initiatives were taken to bring in
transparency and fairness into the NSR
New Shipper Reviews
investigations by way of prescribing a new
6.8 As per the Agreement and the National legislation, application format to bring uniformity of application
the Authority considers applications from new and a Trade Notice was also issued to ensure that the
exporters located in the exporting country in question NSR investigations are processed objectively and
which did not export the product during the original transparently in the prescribed timeframe. The
investigation period in order to establish an individual Authority initiated four investigations during 2018-
dumping margin. However, there have been few
investigations for New Shipper Reviews world over 19. Three final findings were issued during 2018-19,
during last one decade. which is the highest in the recent years.

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