New Trade Notice Ends The Impasse: Revised Methodology Devised For Procurement Of DGCI&S Import Data

The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (“DGTR”), on 18^th October 2022, issued a new Trade Notice prescribing the procedure for procurement of Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (“DGCI&S”) transaction-wise import data and ending a short-lived uncertainty over the same. This article traces the history of publication of import data in India and their access to the public. Access of import data has played a critical role in trade remedial investigations in India. The recent Trade Notice restores the state of normalcy that existed in Indian trade remedial practice.    

Use of DGCI&S import data in trade remedial investigations

Trade remedial laws of India require that an application seeking initiation of an investigation contain sufficient evidence of, among other things, dumping/ subsidisation and injury to the domestic industry. In order to examine the alleged dumping / subsidization and injury suffered, the investigating