There is transshipment when the allegedly dumped product is not imported directly from the country of origin but is physically shipped through a third country without, however, entering into the commerce thereof.

A dumping protest may cover any specific kind or class of a foreign product which is being imported, sold or is likely to be sold, into the Philippines at a price less than its normal value, the importation or sale of which might injure, or retard the establishment of, or is likely to injure an industry producing like products in the Philippines.

Yes. The following shipments and/or consignments shall not be subject to anti-dumping protest:

A protest may be filed by, or on behalf of, the domestic industry, in writing and embodied in a notarized form.

The application must be complete at the time it is lodged and must contain all relevant information that is reasonably available to the protestant.

(a) support by domestic producers whose collective output constitutes more than fifty percent (50%) of the total production of the like product produced by the domestic industry; and

In special circumstances, DTI or DA may, on its own motion, initiate an anti-dumping/countervailing investigation without having received a written application by or on behalf of a domestic industry.

Yes, the protestant shall post a surety bond to answer for any damages which the importer/ protestee may sustain by reason of the filing of frivolous petition, to be released only upon affirmative preliminary determination.