Special Import Measures Act

Marginal note:Where President receives a complaint

• 32 (1) Where the President receives a written complaint respecting the dumping or subsidizing of goods, he shall, within twenty-one days after the receipt thereof,

  • (a) if the complaint is properly documented, cause the complainant to be informed in writing that the complaint was received and that it is properly documented; or

  • (b) if the complaint is not properly documented, cause the complainant to be informed in writing that the complaint was received and indicate the information and material needed in order for the complaint to be properly documented.

• Marginal note:Notice of complaint

  (1.1) If the President receives a properly documented written complaint under subsection (1), the President shall cause the government of the country of export to be notified in writing that the complaint was received and that it is properly documented.

• Marginal note:Timing of notice

  (1.2) The notice shall be provided no later than

  • (a) in the case of a complaint respecting the dumping of goods, seven days before the day on which the President decides whether or not to cause an investigation to be initiated; and

  • (b) in the case of a complaint respecting the subsidizing of goods, 20 days before the day on which the President decides whether or not to cause an investigation to be initiated.

• Marginal note:Additional information and material

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where the President receives from a complainant additional written information or material in relation to a complaint referred to in that subsection with respect to which he has at any time caused the complainant to be informed pursuant to paragraph (1)(b), the President shall, unless, before the receipt of the additional information or material, he has caused the complainant to be informed in writing pursuant to paragraph (1)(a) that the complaint is properly documented, be deemed to have received, on the day that he received the additional written information or material, a complaint respecting the dumping or subsidizing of goods composed of the complaint with respect to which he has caused the complainant to be so informed pursuant to paragraph (1)(b) and the additional information or material.

• Marginal note:Deemed complaint

  (3) If a written complaint filed with the Tribunal under subsection 23(1) of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act is referred to the President under subsection 26(4) or 28(1) of that Act, the President is deemed to have received a written complaint described in subsection (1).