On 28 and 29 April 2011 the North Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) heard the case between the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) (First Applicant), Sars (Second Applicant), the Minister of Trade and Industry (Third Applicant), the Minister of Finance (Fourth Applicant), and Aranda Textile Mills (Proprietary) Limited and 74 others (Respondents). According to papers filed, the application arose from the decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the case of Progress Office Machines CC v The South African Revenue Service and Others, on which a judgement was made 25 September 2007. In the Progress Office Machines case the issue of dispute related to the proper computation of the five-year period for which anti-dumping duties are imposed under the Act. This required the SCA to determine whether the date on which anti-dumping duties are imposed is the date on which the notice by the Minister of Finance indicating that Schedule 2 to the Act has been amended is published or the date from which the amendment is stipulated as having retrospective effect. The SCA held that the operative date was the date from which the amendment was to have retrospective effect. As a consequence of the judgement, the SCA declared that the anti-dumping duty imposed by the Minister of Finance in respect of paper products (Government Gazette No.20125 of 28 May 1999) was invalid and had no force or effect on the date five (5) years after the retrospective date from which the anti-dumping duty was imposed because the Sunset Review in respect of those products had not been initiated within that five (5) year period. Prior to the SCA’s decision in Progress Office Machines, the applicants had computed the five (5) year period as running from the date on which the Minister of Finance’s notice was published. The applicants contended that the SCA’s decision in Progress Office Machines have significant and far-reaching implications for the discharge of their powers and functions under the Act. As a consequence, the applicants launched the application to not only ensure that they can properly discharge their powers and functions under the Act and the International Trade Administration Act (ITAA), but also to ensure that in respect of its international obligations, the Government of South Africa comprehensively addresses the implications of Progress Office Machines judgement. The judgement in this case has been reserved.