Inquiry No. NQ-2004-001
6 May 2004
Inquiry No. NQ-2004-001
Certain Stainless Steel Wire
REVISED - NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF INQUIRY
Notice was received by the Secretary of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) on April 2, 2004, from the Director General of the Anti-dumping and Countervailing Directorate at the Canada Border Services Agency (formerly the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency), stating that a preliminary determination had been made respecting the dumping of cold drawn and annealed stainless steel round wire, up to and including 0.300 inches (7.62 mm) in maximum solid cross-sectional dimension, originating in or exported from the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, and the United States of America, and the subsidizing of such product originating in or exported from India.
Pursuant to section 42 of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), the Tribunal has initiated an inquiry to determine whether the dumping and subsidizing of the above-mentioned goods have caused injury or retardation or are threatening to cause injury, and to determine such other matters as the Tribunal is required to determine under that section.
The Tribunal's Guide to Making Requests for Product Exclusions, which can be found on the Tribunal's Web site, describes the procedure for filing requests for specific product exclusions. The Guide includes a form for filing requests for product exclusions and a form for any party that opposes a request to respond to such requests. This does not preclude parties from making submissions in a different format if they so wish, provided that all of the information and supporting documentation requested in the forms are included. Requests to exclude goods from the finding shall be filed by interested parties no later than June 8, 2004.
Parties opposed or consenting or not opposed to the request for exclusion shall file written reply submissions no later than June 16, 2004. Should the request for a specific product exclusion be opposed, and if the interested party wishes to reply, it must do so within a period determined by the Tribunal in advance of the hearing.
Under section 46 of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act, a person who provides information to the Tribunal and who wishes some or all of the information to be kept confidential must submit to the Tribunal, at the time the information is provided, a statement designating the information as confidential, together with an explanation as to why that information is designated as confidential. Furthermore, the person must submit a non-confidential summary of the information designated as confidential or a statement indicating why such a summary cannot be made.
PUBLIC HEARING
A public hearing relating to this inquiry will be held in the Tribunal Hearing Room, 18th Floor, Standard Life Centre, 333 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario, commencing the 6th day of July 2004, at 9:30 a.m. Each person or government wishing to participate in the inquiry and at the hearing as a party must file a notice of participation with the Secretary on or before April 22, 2004. Each counsel who intends to represent a party in the inquiry and at the hearing must file a notice of representation, as well as a declaration and undertaking, with the Secretary on or before April 22, 2004.
To allow the Tribunal to determine whether simultaneous interpretation will be required for the hearing, each interested party and each counsel filing a notice of participation or representation must advise the Secretary, at the same time that they file the notice, whether they and their witnesses will be using French or English or both languages at the hearing.
In the event of an injury finding, a request for a public interest inquiry conducted pursuant to subsection 45(1) of SIMA may be made by any party to the injury inquiry or by any other group or person affected by the injury finding. Such a request must be filed with the Tribunal within 45 days of the injury finding. A public interest inquiry is completely separate from an injury inquiry. However, the Tri