What is circumvention?

08/05/2024 04:23 - 40 Views

Circumvention occurs when trade and business practices are altered to specifically avoid the liability for SIMA duties. More specifically, circumvention is defined in section 71 as occurring when all of the following elements are present:

- a change in the pattern of trade has occurred after a dumping or subsidy investigation was initiated;

- a prescribed activity is occurring and imports of the goods to which that prescribed activity applies are undermining the remedial effects of an order or finding of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT); and

- the principal cause of the change in trade pattern is the imposition of anti-dumping or countervailing duties.

Source: Canada Border Services Agency