Domestic Industry Definition under Anti-dumping Duty Rules Amended

Domestic industry can include importers in special circumstances such as injury determination. The full exclusion clause amended to delete the word “only” in definition under rule 2(b) of Anti-Dumping Rule, 1995.

[Ref: Customs Notification 86-(NT) dated 1 December 2011]

G.S.R.855(E) - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (6) of section 9A and subsection (2) of section 9B of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Custom Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Second Amendment Rules, 2011.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, in Rule 2, in clause (b),—

for the words “referring to the rest of the producers only”, the words “referring to the rest of the producers” shall be substituted.

[F.No. 354/198/2011-TRU]