Friday, July 15, 2011

India imposes anti-dumping duty on chemical from China

India has imposed an anti-dumping duty of up to $ 0.556 per kg on cheap imports of 'Sodium Tripoly Phosphate' from China for a period of five years.

The chemical is primarily used in industrial cleaning processes and ceramics manufacture.

The Directorate-General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD), a nodal agency under the Commerce Ministry, recommended the imposition of the duty after an investigation. A DGAD probe concluded that the domestic industry had suffered material injury on account of dumping of the product by China.

The duty would range between $ 0.238 per kg and $ 0.556 per kg, it said.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Government: Import of Rubber chemical may attract safeguard duty

After a petition filed by M/s. NOCIL Ltd, which accounts for more than 50 per cent of the rubber chemical output, the Revenue Department has notified the imposition of safeguard duty on an imported product commonly used in treating natural rubber.

The Office of the Directorate-General of Safeguards identified the rubber chemical as PX-13 or 6PPD, which is extensively used in treating natural rubber, synthetic rubber, butadiene rubber, nitrilie rubber, carboxylated rubber and other synthetic rubber-based compounds, and availed of in the manufacture of various rubber products.

Arguing that the product has had a history of dumping since 2003, the domestic industry, in its petition, presented before the Court the import and injury-related data from 2000-01 to 2010-11 (December 2010).

According to Mr I.D. Majumder, Director-General (Safeguards), the petitioner claimed "a sudden, sharp and significant increase" during the injury period despite the imposition of anti-dumping duty on the product.