5 INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED TO KEEP CONFIDENTIALITY IN TRADE REMEDIES INVESTIGATION CASES
On November 29, 2019 the Ministry of Industry and Trade issues the Circular No. 37/2019/TT-BCT, prescribing in detail a number of provisions on trade remedies.
In accordance with this Circular, the investigation body shall consider and approve requests for confidentiality of 05 following information: Business secrets relating to the characteristics of a product or manufacturing process; Confidential information about production and business activities and financial situation of enterprises; Information about the dumping margin of each enterprise; Information about the benefit amount enjoyed by the requested party for each subsidy program subject to investigation…
In addition, the Ministry of Industry and Trade also regulates 06 types of goods which are considered exemption from application of provisional or official trade remedies, include: Goods impossible to be domestically manufactured; Goods with characteristics different from non-substitutable domestically manufactured goods; Goods being special products of domestically manufactured similar goods or directly competitive goods; Domestically manufactured similar goods or directly competitive goods not sold in the domestic market under the same normal conditions; Domestically manufactured similar goods or directly competitive goods not sufficient for domestic use...
This Circular takes effect on January 15, 2020.
