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Disclosure Statement & Final Finding

disclosure statement is circulated to all the interested parties who have provided
any meaningful submissions during the investigation.

16.11. The NCV version should be carefully drafted. It is advisable that the soft copy
should be freshly created when it is to be issued. The non-confidential version of
the disclosure statement hides (by replacing confidential numbers/statements by an
asterix symbol) all that information which is being submitted on a confidential basis
by the interested parties and the Authority has agreed to grant the confidentiality,
the details of which are as mentioned in earlier chapter 7on the subject based on the
guidelines issued in this regard vide Trade Notice Nos. 10/2018 dated 07.09.2018
and 14/2018 dated 01.10.2018.

16.12. After discussions and specific approval of DG for issue of Disclosure
statement, the final NCV should be converted into a PDF file and emailed to all
the responding interested parties. The emails of all the relevant responding parties
should be collected and kept ready in advance so that none of them are missed
out, otherwise it may lead to redundancy of the whole exercise as non-receipt of
disclosure can be a cause of action and the aggrieved party may approach Court.
Disclosure Statement should also be emailed to the respective Embassy if they have
participated by way of making any submission or attended the hearing.

16.13. The disclosure statement mentions the relevance of the document in the
covering letter and has 4 Annexures containing submissions, counter submissions
and its examination under following subheadings:

16.13.1 Annexure I -General Disclosure : It contains the details that need to be
provided under the following heads:

(i) Procedures: Facts in a chronological order starting from receipt of
application, intimation to embassies, source of data relied upon in the
initiation and subsequently obtained during the course of investigation,
list of stakeholders which were asked to file response, list of registered
interested parties, list of stakeholders who have filed responses/submissions,
exchange rate applied for the conversion, date of hearing etc.;

(ii) In case of sunset review, the disclosure statement may also outline the
history of reviews of the measures since the time they were first imposed;

(iii) Product under Consideration (as dealt with in Chapter 3 of this Manual);

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