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OUTREACH

PROGRAMMES

1. The DGTR embarked upon a series of outreach (I) CHANDIGARH
programmes to sensitize the domestic manufacturers
about the trade remedy measures available to the 5. Ms. Shubhra, Additional Director General and Mr.
industry to counter the unfair trade practices being N.I. Chowdhury, Director (Cost) conducted an outreach
adopted by the exporters in the exporting countries. programme in Chandigarh on 15th May, 2018.
The DGFT office at Chandigarh was requested
2. DGTR involved the regional offices of DGFT in to organise the programme and invite the local
reaching out to producers/manufacturers in the industry representatives. The programme accordingly
respective region. The participation of DGFT offices in was organised by the DGFT office in collaboration
the outreach programme/seminar had a purpose to with Pharma Export Promotion Council. The local
create a knowledge bank in the Department of DGFT office took active interest in organising the
Commerce at the field level to equip them to tackle event. The outreach programme included a
unfair trade practices, thereby obviating the need for 40 minutes presentation by the DGTR team followed by
intermediaries to file trade remedy related 90 minutes interactive session. Thereafter, the floor
was left open for the participants to ask questions
applications to protect the interest of the domestic
relating to Trade Remedy measures.
industry, particularly MSMEs and those located in
remote areas. DGFT has nominated Shri Vijay Kumar,
Additional DGFT (E.mail: vijay63@nic.in, Tel: 011- 6. The outreach programme in Chandigarh was
attended by large scale manufacturing entities,
23061055) as the Nodal Officer for co-ordinating trade
MSMEs, Traders, Exporters etc. The interaction was
remedial efforts between DGFT field formations and
DGTR. meaningful and the participants seemed interested in
widening their knowledge base about the trade
remedies. The maximum queries raised during the
3. The basic purpose of the outreach programme is
interactive session were related to the misclassification
essentially to demystify the Trade Remedy laws and
of imported goods under different HS codes to avoid
processes and reach out to the domestic manufacturers anti-dumping duty in force. Also it was repeatedly
and other potential beneficiaries directly with a view mentioned by members of user industry that they were
to minimizing the role of intermediaries. DGTR not getting opportunity for contesting imposition of
officers held several such programmes across the duty. Overall the programme was highly interactive
length and breadth of the country. It is meant to be a and fruitful.
very useful initiative which will prove to be extremely
rewarding for the Industry as well as the Department
of Commerce .

4. Further, this endeavour of DGTR is also intended
to facilitate the Indian exporters facing
antidumping/countervailing actions in various
countries and equip them in defending their legitimate
interest.

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