Legal Principle & Question Decided

Ruling Summary: This decision was rendered by the Sindh High Court, officially reported as Const. P. 3363/2026 (SHC). In this matter between Const. P. 3363/2026 (D.B.) M/s. Prime International and Federation of Pakistan & others Sindh High Court, Karachi, the court adjudicated key questions of statutory construction, procedural regularity, and legal precedent under Pakistani law.

Core Holding: The honorable bench evaluated governing statutory provisions and judicial authorities to establish the rights of the parties, delivering the binding reasoning set out below.

Full Judgment Text & Judicial Ruling

COURT: Sindh High Court CASE NO: CITATION: PARTIES: ORDER DATE: BENCH: A.F.R: ------------------------------------------------------------ Page 1

THE HIGH COURT OF SINDH KARACHI

Before: Mr. Justice Adnan Iqbal Chaudhry Mr. Justice Muhammad Hasan (Akber)

C.P. No. D – 3363/2026 : M/s. Prime International versus Federation of Pakistan and others.

C.P. No. D – 4411/2026 : M/s. Aftab Chemical Co., versus Federation of Pakistan and others.

C.P. No. D – 4412/2026 : M/s. Royal Chemical versus Federation of Pakistan and others.

For the Petitioners : Mr. Athar Hussain, Advocate.

Date of hearing : 10-08-2026

Date of decision : 10-08-2026

O R D E R

Adnan Iqbal Chaudhry J .– 1] Exemption granted subject to all just exceptions. 2-3] Petitioners, who are importers, have received notices from the National Tariff Commission [Commission], apparently under section 27 of the Anti-Dumping Duties Act, 2015 [Act], communicating its decision to initiate investigation against the Petitioners on an application made under section 20 of said Act by producers of dextrose monohydrate, alleging that such product is being exported to Pakistan at dumped prices, thus causing injury to Pakistan’s domestic industry. The Petitioners pray for a writ to stop said investigation.

2. For attacking the anti-dumping investigation, the grounds urged in the petition make only a bald averment that the investigation violates fundamental rights of law -abiding citizen s and taxpayer s. When confronted with such vague grounds, learned counsel submits that the Commission has not satisfied itself whether the applicants before it are even ‘domestic industry’ within the meaning of the Act, which is a pre -condition to investigation as per section 23 of the A ct. However, the notice of investigation mentions the names of the

C.P. Nos. D – 3363 of 2026 etc.

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applicants as local producers of dextrose monohydrate and categorically states that the evidence produced by them gives sufficient grounds to justify an investigation in terms of section 23 of the Act. The Petitioners have not placed on record any material to suggest that the initiation of investigation by the Commission is arbitrary. Therefore, we do not find any reason to exercise writ jurisdiction to interfere with said investigation. Petitions are dismissed in limine.

Office shall place a copy of this order in all petitions.

JUDGE

JUDGE SHABAN*

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