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(vii) Whether customers are using domestic material and imported material
interchangeably;
(viii) Whether the exporters from the subject countries and the DI have sold the
same product in the same period to the same set of customers;
(ix) Whether the channels of distributions employed by different parties shows
some absence of competition or whether the sales channels are comparable;

(x) What are the parameters for the consumers to decide the source of supply;
(xi) Whether the domestic producers and exporters from the subject countries
sell the like product to the same category of customers and whether both
are competing in the same market; and
(xii) Whether import price from various countries has moved in same tandem.

Volume Effect
11.7.5. Para (ii) of Annexure II (corresponding to Article 3.2 of the ADA) requires
that the volume effect is examined in terms of increase in the quantum of imports
in absolute terms; or an increase in the quantumof dumped imports relatively
compared to the production of the importing member or the consumption in the
importing member .
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11.7.6. Volume of imports in absolute terms: this should be preferably based
on DGCI&S data. However, the volume of import reported in DGCI&S must be
co-related with the volume of imports reported by the responding exporters and
secondary source data (if made available by any interested party). In a situation
where volume of imports reported by responding exporters or secondary source
is higher than DGCI&S, it may be more appropriate to consider the questionnaire
responses or secondary source. Typically, the higher of the volumes reported by
various parties should be adopted, considering that this in any case is the actual
volume of imports in India .
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11.7.7. The volume of imports should normally be considered separately for each
subject country and then cumulatively for all the subject countries. Further, the
volume of import should be separately considered for each of the non-subject
countries also.

2 As given in paragraph 2 of Article 3 of the ADA
3 Please refer to Para XI of Chapter 24 for WTO Jurisprudence.

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