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(including the applicant) who produce or manufacture like goods in Australia and who support the application:

      (a) account for more than 50% of the total production or manufacture of like goods produced or manufactured by that portion of the Australian industry that has expressed either support for, or opposition to, the application; and

      (b) account for not less than 25% of the total production or manufacture of like goods in Australia.".

Consideration of application

  16. Section 269TC of the Principal Act is amended:

    (a) by omitting from subsection (4) all the words preceding paragraph (a) and substituting the following:

    "(4) If the Comptroller decides not to reject an application under subsection 269TB(1) or (2) in respect of goods, the Comptroller must give public notice of the decision:";

  (b) by inserting at the end of paragraph (4)(a) "and";

    (c) by omitting paragraph (4)(b) and substituting the following paragraphs:

      "(b) setting out the identity of the applicant; and

      (ba) setting out the countries of export known to be involved; and

         (bb) if the application is for a countervailing duty notice—also setting out the countries from which countervailable subsidisation is alleged to have been received; and

         (bc) setting a date, which should be the date or estimated date of publication of the notice in the Gazette, as the date of initiation of the investigation; and

         (bd) indicating the basis on which dumping or countervailable subsidisation is alleged to have occurred; and

         (be) summarising the factors on which the allegation of injury or hindrance to the establishment of an industry is based; and

         (bf) indicating that the preliminary finding will be made on the basis of the examination of exportations to Australia of goods the subject of the application during a period identified in the notice; and";

    (d) by omitting from paragraph (4)(c) "after the publication of the notice" and substituting "after the date of initiation of the investigation";

  (e) by inserting at the end of paragraph (4)(c) "and";

    (f) by omitting from subsection (4) all the words after paragraph (d) and substituting the following paragraphs:

         "(e) inviting interested parties to lodge with the Comptroller, within a specified period of not more than 40 days after the date of initiation of the investigation, submissions concerning the publication of the notice sought by the applicant; and

         (f) indicating the address at which, or the manner in which, such submissions can be lodged";

  (g) by adding at the end the following subsections:

     "(5) Information required to be included in the notice under subsection (4) may be included in a separate report to which the notice makes reference.

     "(6) Despite the fact that a notice under this section specifies a particular period for interested parties to lodge