Announcement of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China
Article 1. The people's courts shall accept the following administrative suits
against anti-dumping administrative acts pursuant to law:
1) Final decisions on dumping and dumping margin, damage and damage degree;
2) Decisions on whether to collect anti-dumping duties, as well as decisions on
retroactive collection, refund, and collection on new export operators;
3) Re-examination decisions on preservation, modification or cancellation of anti-dumping
duties and price undertakings;
4) Other anti-dumping acts indictable pursuant to laws and administrative regulations.
Article 2. Individuals or organizations that have legal interest relations
with the anti-dumping administrative acts may bring administrative suits with
the people's court as interested parties pursuant to the Administrative Litigation
Law and other relevant laws and administrative regulations.
Interested parties as used in the preceding paragraph shall refer to the applicants,
relevant export and import operators, and other natural persons, legal persons
or other organizations with legal interest relations that file written applications
for anti-dumping investigation with the authority under the State Council.
Article 3. The defendant of an anti-dumping administrative case shall be the
authority under the State Council that conducted the corresponding indicted anti-dumping
administrative act.
Article 4. Other authorities under the State Council that have legal interest
relations with the indicted anti-dumping administrative act may participate in
the suit as a third party.
Article 5. Anti-dumping administrative cases of the first instance shall be
under the jurisdiction of the following people's courts:
1) Intermediate people's court designated by the higher people's court of the
place where the defendant is located;
2) Higher people's court of the place where the defendant is located.
Article 6. The people' s court shall make examination of legality of the factual
and legal issues of the indicted anti-dumping administrative act pursuant to the
Administrative Litigation Law and other relevant laws and administrative regulations
on anti-dumping, and by referring to the departmental regulations of the State
Council.
Article 7. The defendant shall bear the burden of proof for the indicted anti-dumping
administrative act it conducted, and shall provide evidences for the anti-dumping
administrative act and the regulatory documents on which the act is based.
The people's court shall examine the legality of the indicted anti-dumping
administrative act on the basis of the file records of the defendant. Factual
materials that weren't been written in the files when the defendant conducted
the indicted anti-dumping administrative act shall not be taken as the ground
for finding that act legal.
Article 8. The plaintiff is obliged to provide evidence for the facts it claims.
If the evidence provided by the plaintiff is relevant, legal and true upon examination
by the people's court pursuant to statutory procedures, such evidence may be taken
as the ground for the decision. .
If the defendant requests the plaintiff to provide evidence pursuant to statutory
procedures in the anti-dumping administrative investigation proceedings, and the
plaintiff refuses to provide without good reasons, provides untrue evidence or
seriously hampers the investigation by other means, the evidence then provided
by the plaintiff in the litigation proceedings will not be adopted by the people's
court.
Article 9. In the anti-dumping administrative investigation procedures, if
the interested parties refuse to provide evidences without good reasons, provide
any untrue evidence or seriously hamper the investigation by other means, the
factual conclusions made by the authority under the State Council through the
evidences available may be held as supported by good evidences.
Article 10. In hearing of anti-dumping administrative cases, the people's court
shall render the following judgments according to different situations:
1) If the evidence for the indicted anti-dumping administrative act is conclusive,
the application of laws and administrative regulations to the act is correct,
and the legal procedure is complied with, the act shall be sustained by judgment;
2) If the indicted anti-dumping administrative act has been in one of the following
circumstances, the act shall be annulled or partially annulled by judgment, or
the defendant may be required by judgment to conduct the anti-dumping administrative
act anew:
a. Inadequacy of essential evidences;
b. Erroneous application of the laws or administrative regulations;
c. Violation of legal procedure;
d. Ultra vires; or
e. Abuse of powers.
3) Other judgments that may be rendered pursuant to laws or judicial interpretations.
Article 11. In hearing anti-dumping administrative cases, the people' s court
may refer to the provisions on civil procedures involving foreign elements.
Article 12. These Provisions shall come into force on January 1, 2003.
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