In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, -

(a) "Act"

means the Customs Tariff Act,1975 (51 of 1975);

(b) "domestic industry"

means the domestic producers as a whole of the like article or domestic producers whose collective output of the said article constitutes a major proportion of the total domestic production of that article, except when such producers are related to the exporters or importers of the alleged subsidised article, or are themselves importers thereof, in which case such producers shall be deemed not to form part of domestic industry:

Provided that in exceptional circumstances referred to in sub-rule (3) of rule 13, the domestic industry in relation to the article in question shall be deemed to comprise two or more competitive markets and the producers within each of such market be deemed as a separate industry if, -

(i) the producers within such market sell all or almost all of their production of the article in question in that market, and

(ii) the demand in the market is not in any substantial degree supplied by producers of the said article located elsewhere in the territory;

(c) "interested party"

includes -

(i) an exporter or foreign producer or the importer of an article subject to investigation for being subsidised or a trade or business association a majority of the members of which are producers, exporters or importers of such an article; and

(ii) a producer of the like article in India or a trade and business association a majority of the members of which produce the like article in India;

(d) "provisional duty"

means a countervailing duty imposed under sub-section (2) of section 9A of the Act;

(e) "specified country"

means a country or territory which includes the country or terriotry with which the Government of India has an agreement for giving it the most favoured nation treatment;

(f) all words and expressions used in these rules, but not defined, shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.