Legal Framework for Trade remedial measures in Philippines

What agencies administer the anti-dumping/countervailing legislation?

The Safeguard Measures Act aims to protect domestic industries in the Philippines from increased imports causing serious injury, allowing for the implementation of measures such as tariffs or quotas to promote competitiveness and adjustment.

Dumping occurs when foreign producers sell their products to an importer in the domestic market at prices lower than in their own national markets, or at prices below cost of production, the sale or importation of which injures or threatens to injure a domestic industry producing like or comparable products or retards the establishment of a potential industry. It is a form of price discrimination between two national markets.

There are four (4) elements of dumping, namely:

The foreign producer's domestic selling price is referred to as the "normal value" of the article. It is the comparable price in the ordinary course of trade for the like product when destined for consumption in the country of export or origin.