International Trade committee  Excuse me, if you have a whole bunch of questions, and they're short, I could answer one after the other, rather than--

International Trade committee  There are two types of appeals, and I'll give you an example. One could be appeals to classification decisions by CCRA in which a product is classified under a certain tariff, item number, and the importer pays the duty on those goods. If he or she doesn't agree with the classification that has been given to those goods, they are at liberty to appeal the classification decision, and that could eventually come to us.

International Trade committee  No? Okay.

International Trade committee  Yes. Let us say that the level of proof is much lower than in the case of a normal safeguard measure.

International Trade committee  Yes, but as I was saying, it is really up to the agency to determine the subsidization or dumping margin. That is not something the Tribunal does. We use the data put out by the agency. If it is decided that there is injury, on the review of other factors, the agency will definitely levy a tax on the imports according to the margin it determined.

International Trade committee  All countries that become members of the WTO must pay a price initially. In the case of China, it agreed that WTO members would apply safeguard measures where necessary. These measures are different, stricter than normal, for a transitional period. That period ends in 2011.

International Trade committee  It is 2013. I am sorry.

International Trade committee  Deciding what is significant and what is not is often a concern to tribunal members. When we see the injury that could be caused by imports from China in this context, we accept that this injury is much less significant in order to apply the measure. On the other hand, in the case of a normal safeguard measure, this must be the principal cause of the injury.

International Trade committee  We don't give advice at large. If we're asked a question, we give advice. The question really is what frames the scope of our mandate.

International Trade committee  You have to realize that dumping and subsidy cases are private actions. Individual companies or industries come before us with a complaint. We deal with the complaint on the basis of the facts that are placed before us. We can't do more than that.

International Trade committee  I believe we're sufficiently well resourced, sir.

International Trade committee  I wouldn't, sir.

International Trade committee  No, we don't have an opinion on that.

International Trade committee  We've had three major requests from the Minister of Finance, plus a standing request. On the standing request, which is usually by individual firms for an individual type of product or fibre or yarn or textile, I would say the vast majority of those have been implemented. In the larger inquiries, we've had three, and they cover the whole ten or eleven chapters of the tariff dealing with textiles.

International Trade committee  “Repeat offenders” is, I guess, your characterization.