 
  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/ADP/AHG/W/164 
14 October 2004 
 (04-4303) 
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices 
Working Group on Implementation Original:   English 
 
 
 
ARTICLE 6.7 – CONDUCT OF VERIFICATION 
 
Paper by Turkey  
 
 
 The following communication, dated 11 October 2004, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Turkey.  
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  Being aware of the vital importance of the ve rification visits through which an investigating 
authority could find the opportunity of auditing in formation in hand and clarifying issues in question 
using the source documents, Turkish anti-dumping author ity considers that on-the-spot investigations 
might have significant contributions to the tran sparency and predictability of proceedings and 
accuracy of the final results. 
  The verification visits are carried out by Tu rkish authority in accordance with Article 21 of 
the Regulation on the Prevention of Unfair Competiti on in Imports prepared in line with the ADA. 
 
 According to the Turkish anti-dumping procedure, the exporter companies are informed about 
verification visits at the initial stage of the inves tigation and on-the-spot investigations are held at 
exporter companies' premises unless the Government of the Member objects to the investigation. 
  After the notifications were sent to the co mpanies and the Government of the relevant 
Member and the date and schedule of verification visit were fixed, companies are provided with a 
detailed list that shows the topics to be verified an d names of the officials in charge of on-the-spot 
investigation.   Following a verification visit, investigating authority provides a disclosure including details 
of the visit and data used in calculation of normal value, export price and dumping margin for the 
relevant exporter company along with the disclosur e of findings in the investigation.  In the 
disclosure, the relevant company is given opportunity to have sufficient information on how the original data submitted by the company were used  in calculations and whether a specific data was 
used as it was in company’s orig inal response to the questionnaire or was changed during the 
verification. 
 
 The purpose of this disclosure is to let the exporter understand how the dumping margin is established and by this way get a real opportu nity to ask for a change when necessary. 
  
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