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Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER  
ARTICLES 18.5 OF THE AGREEMENT 
 
ECUADOR  
Supplement 
 
The following communication, dated 18 April 2012, is circulated at the request of the delegation of 
Ecuador.1 
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In accordance with the provisions of Article 18. 5 of the Anti-Dumping Agreement, Ecuador hereby 
submits the text of Resolution No. 42 of the Foreign Trade Committee "Requirements and procedures for dumping investigations and the app lication of anti-dumping measures", published in 
Official Journal No. 677 of 5 April 2012. 
 
                                               
1 This document, when originally circulated on 14 May 2012, was incorrectly symbolled as 
G/ADP/N/1/ECU/4. It is re-circulated herein without any change in the content to ensure the consistency of the symbolling system. G/ADP/N/1/ECU/3/Suppl.1 
 
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  No. 42 
 
THE FOREIGN TRADE COMMITTEE 
 
Whereas: 
 
 That, pursuant to Article 261.5 of the Constitu tion of the Republic, the central Government 
has exclusive competence for economic, taxation, customs, tariff and foreign trade policies, inter 
alia; 
 
 That Ecuador signed the Protocol of Accessi on to the Agreement establishing the World 
Trade Organization in Geneva on 27 September 1995, under which it undertook to implement the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of  the General Agreement and Tariffs and Trade 
concerning anti-dumping duties; 
  That the Agreement on Implementation of Ar ticle VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs 
and Trade constitutes a regulatory instrument that contains criteria and procedures enabling the 
conditions for application of anti-dumping duties to be determined in order to counter unfair trade 
practices and remedy the distortions caused by dumping; 
 
 That, by means of the Supplement to Offici al Journal No. 351 of 29 December 2010, the 
Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment (COPCI) entered into force and Book IV thereof 
determines the regulatory framework for foreign trade, its bodies and instruments; 
 
 That Article 71 of the Organic Code of Produc tion, Trade and Investment provides that the 
body entrusted with approving national public policies on trade shall be the Foreign Trade 
Committee, COMEX; 
  That Article 72(i) of the COPCI determines that it shall be COMEX's duty and authority 
"To adopt the rules and measures needed to counter unfair international trade practices that affect 
domestic production, exports or, in general, the country's trade interests" ; 
  That Article 88 of the COPCI provides that  the "State shall promote transparency and 
efficiency in international markets and shall encourage equal conditions and opportunities.  For 
these purposes and in accordance with the provisions of this Code and of the relevant international instruments, it shall adopt appropriate trade measur es to:  a.  Prevent or remedy any injury or 
threat of injury to domestic industry caused by unfair dumping practices (...)"; 
  That, in fulfilment of General Provision PRIM O in the aforementioned Code, Executive Decree 
No. 733 was issued and published in Official Journal No. 435 of 27 April 2011, establishing 
Regulation to Implement Book IV of the Organi c Code of Production, Trade and Investment in 
relation to trade policy, its supervisory bodies and instruments;  
 That, in fulfilment of the mandate given by  Article 53 of the Regulation to Implement 
Book IV of the Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment, which provides that "The administrative unit established in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration, shall 
be the investigating authority for trade defence for the purposes of the provisions of Article 75 of 
the Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment and these Regulations" by means of 
Ministerial Decision No. 0000074, published in Official Journal No. 547 of 3 October 2011, the 
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration appointed the Technical Under-Secretariat for 
Foreign Trade, through the Directorate of Trade De fence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade 
and Integration, to be the new investigating authority for trade defence, for the purposes of the Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investme nt and the Regulation to Implement Book IV; 
 
 That Article 69 of the Regulation to Implemen t Book IV of the Organic Code of Production, 
Trade and Investment prescribes that in " [P]roceedings for a dumping 
investigation  (...) The requirements and other procedural aspects of the investigation shall be 
established in a resolution issued by COMEX "; 
 
 By Ministerial Decision No. MCPEC-2012-007 of  6 February 2012, Dr Rubén Morán Castro 
was delegated the powers and duties of the Ministry responsible for coordinating production, G/ADP/N/1/ECU/3/Suppl.1 
 
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  employment and competitiveness, for the period  from 8 February to 12 February 2012, as 
substitute for the Minister responsible for the coordination of production;   That the plenary session of the Foreign Trad e Committee considered and approved technical 
report No. 02/AI/DDC/2012 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration/Technical 
Under-Secretariat for Foreign Trade/Directorate of Trade Defence concerning the procedures for dumping investigations and application of safeguard measures, which recommends, inter alia,  
approval of " the Requirements and Procedural Aspects for Dumping Investigation Procedures "; 
  In exercise of the powers conferred by the law,  
Hereby resolves: 
 To approve the requirements and procedures for dumping investigations and the 
application of anti-dumping measures. 
 Article 1 - Definitions: 
 
(a) Investigating authority:   The Directorate of Trade Defence/Technical Under-Secretariat 
for Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration, shall be the investigating authority for trade defence matters. 
 
(b) Sectoral Ministry for determination of injury:   The institution which, because of its 
powers and competence, supervises the domestic  industry requesting the measure, and is 
therefore responsible for examining the determ ination of material injury or threat of 
material injury. 
 
(c) Dumping:   Dumping is deemed to occur when a country's products are introduced into the 
Ecuadorian market at less than their normal value, as determined in Articles 59 to 63 of the Regulations, if their sale causes or threatens to cause material injury to an established industry in Ecuador or materially retards the establishment of a domestic industry. 
 
(d) Domestic industry:   For the purposes of initiating anti-dumping proceedings by the 
investigating authority, the domestic industry shall mean the industry that can prove it 
comprises domestic producers as a whole of the product in question or like products which 
support the application and represent 50 per cent  of the domestic industry, provided that 
the application is submitted and supported by at least 25 per cent of total domestic 
production of the said products. 
 (e) Interested parties:   The investigating authority shall consider the following to be 
interested parties, but not necessarily all of them: 
 
(e.1) Exporters, foreign producers or importers of the product subject to investigation, 
trade or business associations in Ecuador or other countries whose members are 
producers, exporters or importers of such product; 
  
(e.2) The government of the exporting member; 
 
(e.3) Producers of the like product in Ecuador or trade or business associations in which 
Ecuador or other countries are producers of the like product; 
 
(e.4) Industrial users and domestic consumers provided that they are representative and 
they can feasibly be identified;  and 
 
(e.5) Others which, in the view of the investigating authority, should be considered 
interested parties. 
 
Article 2 – Submission of the application:   Applications relating to dumping, material injury 
and the causal link shall be submitted to the investigating authority by the domestic industry or on its behalf.  
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   The application shall have the required level of support and endorsement of domestic 
producers of the like product allegedly imported at "dumped" prices", for which purpose it shall be accompanied by a certificate from the competent association or by other proof that it represents a domestic industry, in accordance with the definition given in Article 1 of this resolution, in order to 
determine the legitimacy of the applicant. 
  The application shall be submitted in writ ing and shall be deemed acceptable by the 
investigating authority's office. 
  The application shall include verifiable evidence available to the applicant concerning the "dumping", the material injury and the causal li nk between the "dumped" imports and the material 
injury. 
  Together with the application, the applicant shall submit the completed dumping 
investigation form, which shall be prepared and handed in at the offices of the investigating 
authority, correctly filled in and providing the required information and evidence.  
 Both the application and the form shall indicate whether the introduction of the product from 
a country into the Ecuadorian market at less than its normal value is causing or threatening to cause material injury to an established domestic industry in Ecuador or is materially retarding the creation of an Ecuadorian domestic industry.  Simple assertion, unsubstantiated by relevant 
evidence, shall not entitle the investigating authority to initiate an investigation. 
  The application, the form and the supporting documents shall be submitted in one original 
and three copies;  and the information shal l also be attached in a digital file. 
 Article 3 - Application requirements:   In addition to the information compulsorily to be entered 
on the relevant form, applications shall contain at least the following information: 
 
(a) General information on the applicant(s);  in cases of legal representation, the 
substantiating documents shall be attached, together with a copy of the power of 
attorney if the application is being made through an attorney; 
 
(b) Proof that the applicant represents the domestic industry producing the like 
product, as required by Article 1(d) of this resolution; 
 
(c) Description of the domestically produced product allegedly the subject of 
"dumping", showing its tariff classificati on, the country of origin and of export; 
 
(d) Description of the imported product allegedly "dumped", indicating the tariff 
classification commonly used; 
 
(e) Name and domicile of the known importers, exporters and foreign producers; 
 
(f) Information on the prices at which the product in question is sold for consumption 
on the domestic market and markets in the country of origin, or markets in third countries, or on the constructed value; 
 
(g) Information on the export prices or, where applicable, on the prices at which the 
product is first sold to an independent buyer in Ecuador; 
 
(h) Data on the trend in the volume and value of imports of the product allegedly 
"dumped", their effect on various factors that affect the situation of the domestic industry such as actual or potential de cline in sales, profits, market share, 
productivity, return on investment or utilization of capacity, factors affecting 
domestic prices, the magnitude of the margin of dumping, actual or potential negative effects on cash flow, inventorie s, employment, wages, growth, ability to 
raise capital or investments, as well as other variables, and their consequent 
impact. 
 
(i) Objective elements to determine the ca usal link between the "dumping" and the 
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(j) Specific declaration to submit the relevant documents to the investigating 
authority for verification of the information supplied;  
 
(k) Details of the evidence attached to the application;  
 
(l) Identification and substantiation of confidential documentation and a summary or 
non-confidential version thereof;  
 
(m) Proof of the existence of the legal persons appearing as applicants;  and  
 
(n) Domicile of the applicant domestic industry for the purpose of the respective 
notifications.  
 
Article 4 - Receipt and review of the application:   After the application has been submitted to 
the investigating authority, it shall be examined within a period not exceeding fifteen (15 days) and a decision taken: 
 
(a) Receipt of the application.   If the investigating authority, on examination of the 
application, finds that it meets the requir ements indicated in Articles 2 and 3, it 
shall be accepted.  Acceptance shall be notified to the applicant within the 15-day 
period determined in this Article; 
 
(b) Incomplete application.   If the investigating authority finds it necessary to 
request missing information for the purpose of accepting the application, it shall 
ask the applicant to provide it.  This request shall interrupt the period established in the preceding paragraph, which shall start anew when the applicant supplies the 
information requested;  and 
 
(c) Withdrawal of the application.   If, after one month following the request for 
missing information, such information has not been supplied in full, the applicant 
shall be considered to have withdrawn the application and the investigating 
authority shall dismiss the application and file it together with the accompanying documents. 
 
Article 5 – Confidential information:   The applicant may request the investigating authority to 
treat some of the information submitted as confidential and must give grounds for its request, 
correctly identifying the information concerned, which shall be accepted by the investigating 
authority in accordance with the merits and justification for such classification and provided that the requesting party submits a summary that permits an overall and reasonable understanding of the said confidential information.  In exceptional circumstances, the interested party may claim 
that part of the confidential information is not susceptible of summary, in which case it must 
provide the investigating authority with a statement of the reasons why summarization is not possible. 
 
 If the investigating authority considers that part of the information is not in fact confidential and the interested parties are either unwilling to make the information public or to authorize its 
disclosure in generalized or summary form, the investigating authority shall deal with the 
information strictly confidentially but may decide not to take it into account in the investigation.  Article 6 – Acceptance of the application:   The investigating authority shall have a period 
of 30 days to evaluate, as far as possible, the accuracy and adequacy of the information and 
evidence provided and to decide whether ther e are grounds for accepting the application. 
 
 This period of 30 days shall be calculated from the date of dispatch of the notification of 
acceptance in accordance with Article 4(a) and (b) above.  
 Within the first five days following the 30-day period, the investigating authority shall 
appoint and transmit to the competent sectoral Ministry all the information received from the 
domestic industry in relation to the application, whether confidential or non-confidential, in accordance with general provision 5.4 of this resolution. 
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   Within the same period, if the investigating authority finds that there is not sufficient 
evidence of either dumping or of injury to justify acceptance of the application or determines that the dumping is de minimis  in accordance with Article 5.8 of the Agreement on Implementation of 
Article VI of the GATT 1994, it shall reject the application, notifying the applicant of the 
inadmissibility of the application, within a further period of seven days. 
 Article 7 - Notification of acceptance of the application to the government of the 
exporting country:   After expiry of the afor ementioned period, if the investigating authority finds 
that there are grounds for accepting the application, prior to initiating the investigation it shall notify the government of the exporting country concerned within a period of 30 days that it has received a properly documented application to initiate an anti-dumping investigation, in 
accordance with Article 71 of the Regulation to  Implement Book IV of the Organic Code of 
Production, Trade and Investment, and Article 5.5 of the Agreement on Implementation of Article 
VI of the GATT 1994. 
 
Article 8 - Initiation of the investigation:   If the investigating authority finds that there are 
grounds for initiating the investigation, it shall give notice of the initiation in a reasoned resolution.  
The resolution on initiation of the investigation, and any future resolutions by the investigating 
authority throughout the investigation procedure, shall indicate the procedural practices it deems appropriate to follow and determine the time limits for these practices or new practices, and interested parties wishing to submit reports shall return duly completed questionnaires and 
attachments to the investigating authority;  the investigating authority shall also determine the 
period for oral public hearing(s) to explain the grounds.  
 In the resolution on initiation of the investigation, the investigating authority shall determine 
the maximum time limit for submitting to COMEX the final report on the investigation containing its conclusions, which shall not exceed 12 months from initiation of the investigation;  if 
provisional measures are requested in the application, the investigating authority shall submit the 
preliminary technical report not earlier than two months following initiation of the investigation.   In the resolution on initiation of the investigation, the investigating authority shall inform the 
interested parties which sectoral Ministry has competence to determine material injury or threat of 
material injury;  the Ministry shall exercise its relevant powers to seek information, conduct verification visits and other activities required to make such a determination. 
 
 If necessary, by means of a resolution, the investigating authority may extend to 18 months the time limit for submitting to COMEX the final report on the investigation containing its 
conclusions. 
 Article 9 - Publication and notification of the initiation of the investigation:   After the 
initiation of the investigation has been declared, the investigating authority shall transmit the 
resolution on initiation of the dumping investigation for publication in the Official Journal and in a 
national newspaper, in accordance with Article 71 of the Regulations to Im plement Book IV of the 
Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment ;  likewise, it shall notify the World Trade 
Organization's Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices accordingly if the country concerned is a 
member of the Organization;  it shall transmit the text of the application to interested parties.  Publication and notification shall take place within 30 days of the date of the resolution initiating 
the investigation. 
  The aforementioned notifications shall take into account the provisions on confidential information. 
 
Article 10 - Verification of information:   In order to verify the accuracy of the information 
provided by the interested parties or to obtain further details, the investigating authority may 
conduct verification visits in the country exportin g the dumped product, if necessary, provided that 
it obtains the agreement of the enterprises concerned and has notified the government in accordance with Articles 7 and 9 above.  If the ente rprise to be visited fails to give its agreement, 
the investigating authority shall proceed in accordance with Annex II to the Agreement on 
Implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994.  Likewise, together or separately with the 
competent sectoral Ministry, technical verification visits may be made to the domestic industry and/or interested parties as considered necessary, for which the interested parties shall provide all 
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Article 11 - Determination of the margin of dumping, injury and the causal link:   During 
the investigation, the investigating authority shall examine and determine the margin of dumping and the causal link;  and the competent sectoral Mi nistry shall determine the existence of injury.  
This is in accordance with Articles 53 and 64 to 68 of the Regulation to Implement Book IV of the 
Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment , the information contained in the application 
and the forms, and the provisions in the Agreemen t on Implementation of Article VI of the GATT 
1994. 
  When determining the existence of a threat of material injury, the competent sectoral 
Ministry shall consider, inter alia, the following factors: 
 
(a) A significant rate of increase of dumped imports into the domestic market 
indicating the likelihood of substantially increased importation; 
 
(b) Sufficient freely disposable, or an imminent, substantial increase in, capacity of the 
exporter, indicating the likelihood of substantially increased dumped exports in the 
Ecuadorian market, taking into account the availability of other export markets to 
absorb any potential additional exports; 
 
(c) The fact that imports are entering at prices that will have a significant depressing 
or suppressing effect on domestic prices, and would be likely to increase demand 
for further imports; 
 
(d) Inventories of the product being investigated. 
 Article 12 - Technical report:   If the domestic industry has requested the application of 
provisional measures, the investigating authority shall submit a technical report to COMEX, for 
which purpose it shall take into account the report determining material injury or threat of material injury presented by the competent sectoral Ministry;  this technical report shall be submitted within a period not exceeding four months.  COMEX shall issue a resolution as soon as possible, 
basing itself on the merits and conclusions of the investigating authority, in which it shall be 
determined whether provisional measures are needed, their level and time limit, in accordance with Articles 72 to 75 of the Regulations to Implem ent Book IV of the Organic Code of Production, 
Trade and Investment. 
 Article 13 – Time-limit and publication of provisional measures:   In accordance with Article 
74 of the Regulations and Article 7.4 of the Agr eement on Implementation of Article VI of the 
GATT 1994, provisional measures shall be applied if there is a positive preliminary determination of the existence of dumping and the consequent ma terial injury to the domestic industry, for a 
period of four months or, upon a duly substa ntiated request by the interested party, for a 
maximum period of six months.  This resolution on the application of provisional measures shall be 
published in the Official Journal.  
Article 14 - Meetings:   At the request of a party and prior to the submission of the report on the 
essential facts, the investigating authority shall convene meetings for the purpose of allowing interested parties to explain their positions or arguments to those with conflicting interests.  
Parties, either by themselves or at the suggestion of the investigating authority, may, however, 
consult with each other at any time during the investigation procedure in order to reach a mutually agreed solution, in which case the provision in the second paragraph of Article 70 of the Regulation to Implement Book IV of the Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment shall apply. 
 
Article 15 - Essential facts:   Before the investigating authority submits its final report, all 
interested parties shall be informed of the essential facts taken into account and used as the basis 
for preparing the final report so that  they may defend their interests. 
  Within 30 days following receipt of the essential facts, interested parties may transmit their 
comments to the investigating authority. 
 Article 16 - Final report:   Following expiry of the time limits  and deadlines for all the procedures 
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  the proceedings, within the period indicated in Article 8 of this resolution, the investigating 
authority shall submit a final report to COMEX containing the conclusions of the investigation.   As provided in Articles 76 and 77 of the Regu lation to Implement Book IV of the Organic 
Code of Production, Trade and Investment, COMEX shall take a decision in the light of the final 
report submitted by the investigating authority, unless it receives substantiated reports from other sources which contain valid evidence proving the contrary. 
 
 COMEX's resolution shall be published in the Official Journal and notified to interested parties and to the government of the exporting country, and shall be communicated to the World Trade Organization's Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices if the country is a member of the 
Organization.  Likewise, SENAE shall be notified for the corresponding application. 
  COMEX's resolution may provide for anti-dumping  duties that shall remain in effect for the 
period and to the extent necessary to counter the dumping that is causing injury.  Following expiry 
of the period indicated in Article 78 of the Regulation to Implement Book IV of the Organic Code of 
Production, Trade and Investment, either ex offici o or at the request of a party, the authorities 
shall examine the need to maintain the anti-dumpi ng duty.  The examination may find that it is 
necessary to maintain the duty to offset the du mping or, on the basis of the examination, the 
authorities may determine that the anti-dumping duty is no longer justified, in which case COMEX shall decide to terminate the said duty immediately.  Despite the foregoing, any definitive 
anti-dumping duty shall be terminated at the latest within a period of five years as of the date of 
its imposition, in accordance with Article 11, and in particular Article 11.3, of the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994. 
 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
 
FIRST -  The regulations  in the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994 (WTO 
Multilateral Trade Agreement), in Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 
1994) and in the Note and Supplementary Provision to Article VI of the GATT 1994 constitute the 
overall reference framework in relation to anti-dumping as provided in the COPCI, the Regulation 
to Implement Book IV or in this resolution, hence in case of any omissions or legal inconsistencies 
the international regulations shall prevail, in accordance with the precedence of laws in Ecuador.  
SECOND - The investigating authority shall guarantee access to the non-confidential information 
in the file and to the summary of the confidential information to parties duly accredited and proving a real interest in the investigation.  It shall also guarantee that no access is given to the 
confidential file. 
THIRD -  Where the number of exporters, producers, importers or the types of products involved is 
so large as to make it impracticable to conduct investigations or to determine individual dumping margins, the investigating authority may limit its examination to a prudential number of interested 
parties or products, using samples that are statistically valid on the basis of the information 
available to it at the time of selection or the highest percentage of the volume of exports of the country in question that can reasonably be investigated. 
FOURTH -  The anti-dumping procedure shall not represent an obstacle to customs clearance by 
the National Customs Service.  
FIFTH - The investigating authority shall handle, file and deal with the original non-confidential file 
the confidential original and the three identical co pies of the non-confidential file, as follows: 
 
1. The original confidential and non-confidential files shall be recorded, numbered and 
filed in the office of the investigating authority. 
 
2. The first faithful non-confidential copy shall be held and used by the legal service 
of the investigating authority, which shall draw up the procedural plan for the 
administrative process. 
 
3. The second faithful non-confidential copy  shall be held and used by the technical 
service of the investigating authority. 
 
4. The third faithful non-confidential co py and first and unique confidential copy 
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  sectoral Ministry for examination and determination of the material injury caused 
or threat of material injury to the respective domestic industry, in accordance with the technical criteria and permanent rules in the WTO Agreements.  In such cases, in the acknowledgement of receipt, the sectoral Ministry which receives the first 
and unique confidential copy shall assume responsibility for absolute reserve of 
such information and a commitment to its safekeeping. 
 
SIXTH -  Every Government institution or State body, government-owned enterprise or 
semi-public enterprise shall collaborate with the investigating authority in the investigation procedure, shall submit reports, analyses, duly completed forms prepared by the investigating authority or those required within the period it indicates and supplemented or clarified – if need be 
– also within the period indicated by the investigating authority, in accordance with Article 99 of 
the Regulation to Implement Book  IV of the Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment, 
and subject to the permanent administrative liability in the law, and application of the provision in 
the second paragraph of Article 101 of the aforesaid Regulations.  Likewise, in the same situation, 
every government institution or State body, go vernment-owned or semi -public company shall 
collaborate with the competent sectoral Ministry in determining injury or threat of injury. 
 
SEVENTH -  The investigating authority shall draw up the form to be transmitted to domestic 
producers or importers and foreign exporters of the product investigated.  The purpose of this form is to substantiate the application by precise, technical, statistical and quantitative data that 
will allow an exact determination of the existence of dumping, injury, and the causal link between 
the dumping and the injury.  
EIGHTH -  In exceptional circumstances and when it is in the public interest, the investigating 
authority shall decide to initiate an investigation without having received an application from the domestic industry or on its behalf, for which purpose it shall only conduct the investigation if it has 
sufficient evidence of dumping, material injury and the causal link to justify the initiation of an 
investigation, applying the provisions in this resolution insofar as they are relevant.  
DISABLING CLAUSE 
 
FIRST - In fulfilment of the provisions in Article 69 of the Regulation to Implement Book IV of the 
Organic Code of Production, Trade and Investment , which provides that COMEX shall define the 
procedural aspects for anti-dumping investigations, the provisions on dumping contained in the 
Consolidated Text of the MICIP Legislation, issued by Executive Decree No. 3497, published in Official Journal No. 744 of 14 January 2003, are he reby repealed, with the exception of those 
investigation procedures already being conducted,  which shall continue in accordance with the 
procedural rules contained in the Consolidated Text of the MICIP Legislation.   This Resolution was adopted by the Foreign Trade Committee (COMEX) at its meeting held 
on 8 February 2012 and shall enter into force upon publication in the Official Journal. 
 Dr Rubén Morán Castro, Chairman (E). 
Mr Jaime Albuja, Acting Secretary. 
 
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