DIAGNOSTIC EXAM TL SESSION 04

1. What is the alternative normal value to be used for the computation of dumping
margin if an exporter did not cooperate?
a) Constructed normal value
b) Export price to third country
c) Best information available - any reasonable price
d) Foreign producer's domestic selling price

2. Under RA 8752, how many days does the Secretary has, from the date of his letter of
acceptance of the properly documented application, to examine the accuracy and
adequacy of the evidence submitted to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to
justify the initiation of an investigation?
a) Five (5) working days
b) Ten (10) calendar days
c) Five (5) calendar days
d) Ten (10) working days

3. Which government agency, in the case of industrial products, conducts the preliminary
investigation to determine whether or not a provisional measure may be imposed?
a) Tariff Commission
b) Bureau of Customs
c) Department of Trade and Industry - Bureau of Import Services
d) Department of Agriculture

4. What is the duration of imposition of provisional measures under RA 8752?

a) Five (5) years, unless revoked earlier
b) Ten (10) years
c) Four (4) months, extendable to six (6) months upon request by the exporter
d) 200 days

5. Which of the following refers to a review that may be initiated by any interested party
or upon own motion of the Tariff Commission before the expiry date, i.e., 5th year, to
determine whether the expiry of the anti-dumping duty would likely lead to a
continuation or recurrence of dumping and injury?
a) Newcomer Review
b) Interim Review
c) Judicial Review
d) Sunset Review

6. Which government agency, in the case of industrial products, conducts the formal
investigation to determine whether or not a definitive dumping duty may be imposed?
a) Tariff Commission
b) Bureau of Customs
c) Department of Trade and Industry - Bureau of Import Services
d) Department of Agriculture

7. What do you call a country where the allegedly dumped product was either wholly
obtained or where the last substantial transformation took place?
a) Country of Export
b) Country of Destination
c) Country of Origin
d) Non-Market Economy

8. What do you call this effect of dumped imports on domestic prices that refers to the
extent at which the domestic producer reduces its selling price in order to compete with
the allegedly dumped product?
a) Price Undercutting
b) Price Depression
c) Price Suppression
d) Price Benchmark

9. What is this monetary requirement by the Secretary from the petitioner upon the
acceptance of a properly documented application, which will be used as bond to answer
for any and all damages that the importer may sustain by reason of the filing of a
frivolous petition under RA 8752?
a) Provisional bond
b) Coupon bond
c) Treasury bond
d) None of the Choices

10. Under RA 8752, what is this comparable price in the ordinary course of trade for the
like products which destined for consumption in the exporting country?
a) Normal Value
b) Ex-factory price at the point of sale for export
c) Expert price to third country
d) None of the choices

11. From receipt of the answer of the respondents and other interested parties, not later
than how many days does the Secretary has, on the basis of the application, the answers
of the respondents, and the respective supporting documents or information, to make a
preliminary determination of the need for the imposition of a provisional anti-dumping
duty?
a) Twenty (20) working days
b) Twenty (20) calendar days
c) Thirty (30) calendar days
d) Thirty (30) working days

12. Which among the choices below is a subsidy which is specific, i.e., explicitly limited
to an enterprise or group of enterprises, industry sector or group of industries, or
designated geographic region or within the jurisdiction of the granting authority?
a) Actionable Subsidy
b) Countervailable Subsidy
c) Yellow Subsidy
d) All of the choices

13. What do you call this product which refers to a product which is identical or alike in
all respects to the allegedly subsidized product, or in the absence of the former, another
product which, although not alike in all respects, has characteristics closely resembling
those of the allegedly subsidized product?
a) Like Product
b) Directly Competitive Product
c) Dumped Product
d) None of the Choices

14. Under RA 8751, how many days does the Secretary has, from the date of his letter of
acceptance of the properly documented application, to examine the accuracy and
adequacy of the evidence submitted to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to
justify the initiation of an investigation?
a) Five (5) working days
b) Ten (10) calendar days
c) Five (5) calendar days
d) Ten (10) working days

15. Which of the following choices below is

NOT used as basis for determining an export price?
a) Free-On-Board (FOB) price at the point of shipment
b) Export price to third country
c) Importer's selling price to the first unrelated customers
d) Ex-factory price at the point of sale for export

16. Which of the following choices refers to any agricultural product which has a short
shelf life, growing season or marketing period, among other factors?
a) Perishable and seasonal agricultural product
b) Tariffied agricultural products
c) Agricultural products of Chapter 22
d) Agricultural products of Chapter 1

17. Which government agency, in the case of agricultural products, implements the
imposition of safeguard measures?
a) Tariff Commission
b) Bureau of Customs
c) Department of Trade and Industry - Bureau of Import Service
d) Department or Agriculture

18. Which of the choices below refers to finding that the material injury suffered by the
domestic industry is the direct result of the importation of the dumped imports?
a) Material retardation of the establishment of domestic injury
b) Material Injury
c) Causality
d) Threat of material injury

19. Which of the following is defined as domestically-produced substitutable products?

a) Like product
b) Domestic product
c) Directly competitive product
d) Imported product

20. Under RA 8800, what is the special safeguard duty to be imposed if the C.I.F. import
price is less than 10% compared with its trigger price?
a) Zero
b) 10%
c) 50%
d) 90%

21. What administrative review can be conducted by the Tariff Commission if only one
year have elapsed since the imposition of the countervailing duty?
a) Interim Review
b) Sunset Review
c) Monitoring Review
d) Newcomer review

22. Under RA 8752, what percentage of the volume of dumped imports to total imports
of the said products from a particular country shall normally be regarded as negligible?
a) Less than three (3) percent
b) Three (3) percent
c) Seven (7) percent
d) Less than seven (7) percent

23. What do you call this effect of dumped imports on domestic prices that refers to the
extent at which the allegedly dumped product is consistently sold at a price below the
domestic selling price of the like product?
a) Price Undercutting
b) Price Depression
c) Price Suppression
d) Price Benchmark

24. Who can initiate a countervailing action?

a) Any person whether natural or juridical, may file a written application.
b) The Secretary of DA or DTI, in special circumstances, may decides to initiate an
investigation without having received a written application by or on behalf of a domestic
industry for the initiation of such investigation, he shall proceed only if he has sufficient
evidence of the existence of a subsidy, material injury, and a causal link to justify the
initiation of an investigation.
c) The Tariff Commission, in special circumstances, may decides to initiate an
investigation without having received a written application by or on behalf of a domestic
industry for the initiation of such investigation.
d) Any government agencies, representing a domestic industry may file a written
application.

25. What percentage of provisionally estimated dumping margin will cause the Secretary
of Trade and Industry or Agriculture or the Commission to motu prorio terminate the
investigation at any stage of the proceedings?
a) Less than three (3) percent of the export price
b) Two (2) percent of the export price
c) Less than two (2) percent of the export price
d) Less than two (2) percent of the normal value

26. Which of the following refers to a price benchmark for applying the special safeguard
measure?
a) Domestic Selling Price
b) Import Price
c) Export Price
d) Trigger Price

27. Which among the subsidies enumerated below is otherwise known as "red subsidies"
which include export subsidies, i.e., those that are contingent on export performance, and
subsidies that are contingent on the use of domestic over imported goods?
a) Countervailable subsidy
b) Prohibited subsidy
c) Non-actionable subsidy
d) Actionable subsidy

28. Under RA 8751, within how many days should the Commission conclude its formal
investigation and submit a report of its findings, whether favorable or not, to the
Secretary from receipt of the records of the case?
a) 120 days
b) 120 working days
c) 60 days
d) 60 working days

29. Only after which stage of the investigation with affirmative result can an offer for a
voluntary price undertaking be done?
a) Prima Face Determination
b) Preliminary Determination
c) Formal Investigation
d) Final Determination

30. What is this mechanism, also called a tariff-rate quota, which refers to the amount of
imports of an agricultural product allowed to be imported into the country at a customs
duty lower than the out-quota customs duty?
a) Tariffication
b) Minimum Access Volume
c) Quantitative Restriction
d) Reciprocal Tarif Treatment