Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts apply in this Law:

sector of the economy — the totality of all the producers of the Republic of Uzbekistan of similar goods or those of them, the share of which is a major part in the total volume of production of this product in Uzbekistan;

serious damage to the economic sector — a significant deterioration in production, trade and financial indicators of the economic sector or a significant dercreasing in the developing of the economic sector, which occurred as a result of increased import of goods, import of goods at dumping prices or import of subsidized goods to the customs territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

the threat of causing serious damage to the economy — the inevitability of causing serious damage to the economy, confirmed by evidence;

ordinary course of trade — buying and selling of goods on the domestic market of the country of manufacture or of the exporting country at a price which is made up of its weighted average cost and average norm of profit or of comparable prices on similar products imported into the Republic of Uzbekistan from a third country, located in a similar conditions;

the previous period — the last three years prior to the day of filing the application for carrying out the investigation in respect of which there are the necessary statistical data;

similar product — a product that is completely identical to the imported product or comparable with it in terms of its functional purpose, application, quality and technical characteristics, as well as other basic properties.