[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR202.5]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                 CHAPTER II--UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL
                            TRADE COMMISSION
 
PART 202--INVESTIGATIONS OF COSTS OF PRODUCTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 202.5  Type of information to be developed at hearing.

    Without excluding other factors, but with a view to assisting 
parties interested to present information necessary for the formulation 
of findings required

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by the statute, the Commission will expect attention in the hearing to 
be concentrated upon facts relating to:
    (a) The degree of competition between the foreign and domestic 
articles in the markets of the United States.
    (b) The degree of likeness or similarity between grades, classes, 
and price groups of the American product and the imported article.
    (c) Costs of production and importation. Statements of average cost 
of production, domestic and, so far as known, foreign, may be submitted 
subject to verification and review in the Commission's investigation. 
Such statements should include not only the direct costs for materials 
and labor, commonly termed prime cost, but also indirect costs such as 
indirect labor, overhead factory expenses, fixed charges, the portion of 
general and administrative expense chargeable to manufacture, imputed 
interest on investment equity, and transportation to markets. For the 
foreign product the expenses (other than duties) incident to importation 
are also important. Any information which may be available bearing on 
the general levels of domestic and foreign costs of production, the 
differentials between particular elements of domestic and foreign costs, 
and the extent to which invoice or wholesale prices are reliable 
evidence of foreign costs, will be pertinent.
    (d) Other significant advantages or disadvantages in competition.