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(IV) DAHEJ team highlighted the role of the Directorate General of
Trade Remedies in protecting the industries from
11. Dr. Rajiv Arora, Additional Director General and unfair trade practices adopted by some of the foreign
Shri. G. Pradhan, Director (Cost) conducted an business entities. A brief discussion was held on Anti-
outreach programme in association with the Vadodara Dumping Laws, Countervailing Laws, Safeguard laws
DGFT office and the office of the Development and trade defence mechanism existing in the DGTR.
Commissioner, SEZ Dahej at Dahej, Gujarat on 30th Participants expressed their happiness and thanked
May, 2018. Around fifty people from companies located the Directorate for organising such type of
in SEZ, exporters and importers participated. The programmes for the benefit of the domestic industry.

(V) VADODARA 13.06.2018 at Ludhiana. The outreach programme
was organised by Ludhiana DGFT office. It was
12. Dr. Rajiv Arora, Additional Director General and attended by the members of local trade and industry
Shri. G. Pradhan, Director (Cost) conducted another comprising manufacturers, importers, exporters and
outreach programme at Vadodara on 31st May 2018. other stakeholders.
A large number of people participants attended the
programme. The team explained the data requirement 15. A detailed one-hour power point presentation was
and the verification procedure adopted by the DGTR made explaining various trade remedy measures
for computation of normal value, export price, landed available to the domestic industry to address the issue
value and NIP to arrive at dumping margin and injury of distortion and unfairness in trade practices resorted
margin. The participants raised a number of queries by foreign exporters. This was followed by an hour long
relating to computation of dumping and injury margin. question & answer session. The main queries during
Many participants also raised queries on remedial the interactive session related to the procedure of
measures available to counter the various subsidy filing application, requirement of data, the impact of
schemes offered by the different foreign Governments anti-dumping duties on the user industry and the
to their domestic industries. possibility of help expected from the government in
defending Indian exporters who are being subjected to
(VI) PUNE such measures by the importing countries. Some of
the exporters raised queries relating to GST refund
13. Ms. Rita Mahna, Director (Foreign Trade) and Mr. too. All the queries of the participants were answered
N. I. Chowdhury, Director (Cost) conducted an to their satisfaction. The participants lauded the
Outreach Programme on 6th June 2018 in Pune with initiative of the DGTR to reach out to the domestic
an objective to create awareness about the activities industry to create awareness and impart technical
performed by the DGTR and how these could benefit know-how regarding trade remedy mechanism.
the Domestic Industry. Broad concepts of trade
remedy measures, the process of filing application and (VIII) SURAT
various steps and procedures involved in the trade
remedy investigations were explained to the 16. Ms. Shubhra, Additional Director General and Mr.
participants in detail. N.I. Chowdhury, Director (Cost) conducted an
outreach programme at Surat on 31st August, 2018.
(VII) LUDHIANA The programme was organised by Surat DGFT office
in collaboration with the Southern Gujrat Chamber of
14. An outreach programme was conducted by Mr. Commerce. Mr Abhishek Sharma, Deputy DGFT,
Mithileshwar Thakur, Additional Director General Surat took special interest in organising the event
and Mr. N. I. Chowdhury, Director (Cost) on successfully. The programme was attended by

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