On The Public Interest Inquiry In Canadian Anti-dumping Law And Its Practice

As the first country making anti-dumping law in the world, Canada has long been improving the Anti-Dumping Public Interest Inquiry both in theory and practice. In respect of legislation, from 1980s till now, Canada has been developing the public interest inquiry through several legislations. At present, its anti-dumping public interest inquiry mechanism not only contains comprehensive and specific regulations on the right of application, qualifications of attending parties, the right of survey, directional factors in survey, the obligations and tasks of survey organizations and so on, but also has perfect legislative rules in the survey duration, steps and methods. Compared with the aspect of legislation mentioned above, the public interest inquiry of Canada made even greater achievements in practice. Canada began to carry out this practice in 1989. Over the twenty years, it has gained rich experiences in the survey system, which are also typical and meaningful inquiry cases. These cases vividly show us that how Canada by itself gropes in practice and establishes a system of working methods and procedures of anti-dumping public interest inquiry, and how CITT, the main body in the inquiry, carries out the survey and analyzes and evaluates the public interest in anti-dumping activities. At the meantime, such cases reflect the inquiry system's distinct features in practice.This thesis introduces Canada's anti-dumping public interest inquiry from its legislation, and puts particular emphasis on the research about its public interest inquiry in practice. The Introduction Part of this thesis is about the research background and its significance. The First Part reviews the legislation of Canada's anti-dumping public interest inquiry and the formation of its working system in practice, and makes an overall statistics and analysis about Canada's inquiry pracices over the past twenty years. In the Second Part, based on the basic steps in Canda's anti-dumping public interest inquiry mechanism, the author makes a period research on CITT's working process, details of each parts and CITT's working methods, in order to completely present the operation of public interest inquiry system in practice. Based on the first and the second parts, the Third Part summarizes characteristics of Canada's anti-dumping public interest inquiry, including characteristics of the practice system itself and CITT's characteristics in its practical work, which distincts it from those of other countries and helps readers to get much further understanding about it. The Last Part makes a research about the connections between Canada's anti-dumping public interest inquiry mechanism and China. In this part, the author expounds the connections over the past twenty years, analyzes the situation of our exporters being involved in this system, discusses how the legislation and the practice of the system enlighten our country on the legislation in relative fields, and at last attempts to provide our exporters with relative suggestions.The author sincerely hopes this thesis can present the legislation of Canada's anti-dumping public interest inquiry , and its operation and characteristics in practice, in an objective and all-round way, and thus to correct some misunderstandings about the topic discussed in this thesis, and then finally makes contributions to relevant research in our country.