New Delhi: The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has initiated several systemic and procedural changes for enhancing transparency and ease of doing business, thereby reducing the compliance burden on stakeholders. This has been achieved through an extensive exercise towards simplification of rules, processes and procedures relating to trade remedy.

DGTR, earlier known as DGAD, was formed on 17th May 2018 as a single national entity dealing with all kinds of trade remedial measures like anti-dumping, countervailing, and safeguard. DGTR provides a level playing field to the domestic industry against the unfair trade practices like dumping, subsidization and surge in imports.

DGTR accordingly simplified formats and questionnaires to be filed by producers, exporters, importers, users and domestic industry in trade remedy investigations by reducing the number of formats, and introducing self-certification by placing trust on stakeholders. New avenues have been explored by conducting the safeguard quantitative restrictions investigation, bilateral safeguard investigations, and investigations on a suo moto basis. /BI/