Special Import Measures Act

Marginal note:Definition of circumvention

71 For the purposes of sections 72 to 75.6, circumvention means a situation in which all of the following exist:

• (a) a change has occurred in the pattern of trade since the day on which an order imposing a countervailing duty was made under section 7 or an investigation was initiated under section 31, as the case may be;

• (b) a prescribed activity is occurring and imports of the goods to which that prescribed activity applies are undermining the remedial effects of the order in council or the order or finding of the Tribunal; and

• (c) the principal cause of the change in trade pattern is the imposition of anti-dumping or countervailing duties.