Aluminium and Zinc Coated Flat Products from China, Vietnam and Korea – Provisional Anti-dumping Duty Notified on complaint of JSW Steel

[Notification No. 40/2019-Customs (ADD) dated 15 October 2019]

G.S.R. (E). – Whereas, in the matter of import of ‘Flat rolled product of steel, plated or coated with alloy of Aluminium and Zinc’ (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under headings 7210, 7212, 7225 and 7226 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the Customs Tariff Act), originating in, or exported from China PR, Vietnam and Korea RP (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority vide its preliminary findings No. 6/4/2019-DGTR, dated the 15^th July, 2019, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 15^th July, 2019, has come to the conclusion that-

(i) there is significant increase in imports of subject goods from subject counties in absolute terms as well as in relation to production and consumption in India;

(ii) the subject goods have been exported to India from the subject countries below their normal values.;

(iii) the domestic industry has suffered material injury;

(iv) material injury has been caused by the dumped imports of subject goods from subject countries,

and has recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty on the subject goods, originating in or exported from the subject countries and imported into India, in order to remove injury to the domestic industry.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act, read with rules 13 and 20 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the subject goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under headings of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), exported from the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (5), produced by the producers as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), and imported into India, a provisional anti-dumping duty at the rate equal to the amount specified in the corresponding entry in column (7), in the currency as specified in the corresponding entry in column (8), and as per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (9), of the said Table:-

Table

Sl. No.	Heading	Description of Goods	Country of Origin	Country of Export	Producer	Duty Amount	Currency	Unit of measur ement
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)
1	7210, 7212, 7225 and 7226	Flat rolled product of steel, plated or coated with alloy of Aluminium and Zinc (this alloy may contain one or more additional elements which in individual or in combination shall not exceed 3% by weight)	Korea RP	Korea RP	Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.	28.67	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
2	do	do	Korea RP	Korea RP	POSCO	113.49	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
3	do	do	Korea RP	Korea RP	POSCO Coated & Color Steel Co., Ltd.	113.49	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
4	do	do	Korea RP	Any	Any other producer other than serial number 1, 2 and 3	122.66	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
5	do	do	Any country other than subject countries	Korea RP	Any	122.66	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
6	do	do	Vietnam	Vietnam	Ton Dong A Corporation	45.35	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
7	do	do	Vietnam	Vietnam	Hoa Sen Group	54.07	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
8	do	do	Vietnam	Vietnam	Tay Nam Steel Manufacturing and Trading Co. Ltd,	49.05	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
9	do	do	Vietnam	Vietnam	Nam Kim Steel Joint Stock Company	86.06	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
10	do	do	Vietnam	Any	Any other producer other than serial number 6, 7, 8 and 9	199.53	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
11	do	do	Any country other than subject countries	Vietnam	Any	199.53	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
12	do	do	China PR	China PR	Zhejiang Huada New Materials Co., Ltd.	68.08	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
13	do	do	China PR	Any	Any producer other than Zhejiang Huada New Materials Co., Ltd.	129.59	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne
14	do	do	Any country other than subject countries	China PR	Any	129.59	United States Dollar	Metric Tonne

The subject goods mentioned in column (3) in the above Table does not include the following products: -

(a) Flat rolled steel products coated with Zinc without addition of Aluminium;

(b) Flat rolled steel products coated with Aluminium without addition of Zinc; and

2. The provisional anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective for a period of six months (unless revoked, amended or superseded earlier) from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette and shall be payable in Indian currency.

Explanation.- For the purposes of this notification, rate of exchange applicable for the purposes of calculation of such anti-dumping duty shall be the rate which is specified in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), issued from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962, (52 of 1962), and the relevant date for the determination of the rate of exchange shall be the date of presentation of the bill of entry under section 46 of the said Customs Act.

[F.No.354/109/2019 –TRU]