This Practice Note provides practical guidance on determining if domestic sales are not in the ordinary course of trade. The test is employed by investigating authorities when determining the normal value or domestic selling price. Introduction When an investigating authority determines if dumping occurred, it will have to compare the normal value (or domestic selling price) with the export price. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Anti-dumping Agreement provides for three methods to determine the normal value. These methods are referred to as: • domestic prices • exports to third countries, and • constructed normal value The first and preferred method is to utilise the domestic price, being the price at which the like product is sold, in the ordinary course of trade, on the exporting Member State’s domestic market. This method therefore presupposes that there are in fact domestic sales and that such sales are made in the ordinary course of trade. Importantly, reliance on the domestic prices (or domestic sales transactions in the exporting country) as the basis for