Article 22. Procedure for filing the application for carrying out the investigation

The investigation is carried out by the authorized body on the written request of the legal or physical persons representing the interests of the relevant sector of the economy.

An application for an investigation (hereinafter referred to as an application) is considered to have been submitted if it is supported by the manufacturers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, whose aggregate production is more than fifty percent of all similar goods produced by part of the manufacturers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, who expressed their opinion on this application in writing. On the share of producers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, supported the application should account for not less than twenty-five per cent of the total production of similar goods in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The application must contain the following data:

name of the applicant, information on the production by the applicant of a similar product in the previous period;

description of imported goods on the customs territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which is the object of the investigation, the name of the country of origin of goods, information about well-known to the applicant exporting and producing a foreign state, as well as on the well-known to him producing similar goods in the Republic of Uzbekistan;

information on prices, rates and volumes of increase in import of goods in absolute and relative values, the impact of import of goods on prices of similar goods in the domestic market and on the economy, on the share of goods in the domestic market of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

evidence of having imported the goods at dumping prices and the availability of serious damage or threat of causing serious damage to the sector of the economy due to the import of goods at dumping prices, information on the normal value and the export price of the goods (for the cases provided for in chapter III of this Law);

evidence of the presence of subsidies with indication, if possible, the size of this subsidy and the presence of serious damage or threat of causing serious damage to the sector of the economy due to the import of subsidized goods (for the cases provided for in chapter IV of this Law).

The statement may be withdrawn by the applicant before the start of the investigation or in the course of its implementation. If the application is withdrawn prior to the start of the investigation, it shall be considered not filed. If the application is withdrawn in the course of the investigation, the authorized body has the right to continue the investigation or to stop it.