International Trade Administration Division

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Ø Mandate

Ø Tariff Investigations

Ø Trade Remedies

Mandate

The tariff investigation section promotes domestic production, job creation and international competitiveness. The activities of this section are geared towards the lowering of cost structures on industrial inputs through tariff reform, thereby promoting downstream value-added industrialization.

Trade remedies section: trade remedies instruments are critical government interventions to retain jobs and promote investment, and also to level the play to ensure that foreign firms compete fairly with domestic firms.

Tariff Investigations

Activities

• Investigating changes in custom duties

• Carry and facilitate impact assessment studies on the use of tariff instrument

• Carry preliminary tariff investigations

• Evaluate tariff change requests

• Investigate the design of rebates and drawbacks

Trade Remedies

Activities

• Anti-dumping (action against dumping)

• Countervailing measures (anti-subsidy)

• Safe guard measures