Special Import Measures Act

Marginal note:Where Commissioner receives a complaint

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

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

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

• Marginal note:Additional information and material

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where the Commissioner 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 Commissioner 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 Commissioner under subsection 26(4) or 28(1) of that Act, the Commissioner is deemed to have received a written complaint described in subsection (1).