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<p>We are committed to protecting UK industry where it is suffering injury as a result
of dumped imports. Secondary legislation will introduce provisions to tackle those
cases concerning countries where there are particular market situations. Those situations
occur when it is not possible to use the domestic prices in the exporting country
to calculate the dumping margin, because prices and input costs do not reflect competitive
market conditions. In such cases the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) will be able to
use alternative methodologies. These alternative methodologies will include the use
of export prices to an appropriate third country, provided they are representative,
and will enable the TRA to construct the prices on the basis of cost of production,
selling, general and admin costs and profit. Secondary legislation will also provide
that the exporter’s cost data may be adjusted, where justified on a case by case basis,
based on among other things prices from a representative country<strong>.</strong></p><p>We
will set out in secondary legislation examples of situations, such as where prices
are artificially low, for example as a result of government intervention, where significant
barter trade exists, or where non-commercial processing arrangements occur. Other
economies, such as the EU and the US, have similar mechanisms in place to protect
the domestic industry from unfair trade practices and the UK will be no different.</p>
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