Intervening parties in anti-dumping challenges may be impleaded where they participated before the Designated Authority and are directly affected.

Interested persons who participated in an anti-dumping investigation and submitted representations before the Designated Authority may be impleaded in writ petitions challenging the final findings and the procedure adopted by the authority. The governing procedural rules recognise such participants as directly connected to the subject matter of the challenge, so their presence is necessary for effective adjudication. On that basis, the applicants were treated as necessary parties and were allowed to be joined as respondents.

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Issues: Whether the applicants, being interested persons who had participated in the investigation before the Designated Authority, were necessary parties entitled to be impleaded as respondents in the writ petitions challenging the final findings of the Designated Authority.

Analysis: The challenge in the writ petitions was to the final findings recorded under the anti-dumping regime and to the procedure followed by the Designated Authority. The governing procedural rules contemplate impleadment of interested persons who submitted representations during the investigation. Since the applicants had participated in the investigation and had submitted representations before the Designated Authority, they fell within that category and were directly connected with the subject matter of the petitions.

Conclusion: The applicants were held to be necessary parties and were permitted to be joined as respondents.

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