DGAD Initiates Sunset
Review Investigation on Building Material Textile (Geogrid)
from China after Delhi High Court Intervention
· Petition Filed by Techfab India Industries and Strata Geoststems
India
Subject:
Initiation of Sunset Review Investigation of Anti-dumping duty concerning
imports or ‘”Geogrid/Geostrips/
Geostraps made or Polyester or Glass Fiber in all its forms (including all widths and
lengths)”originating in or Exported from China PR.
[Ref:
Initiation Notification (Sunset Review) - F.No.
15/14/2016 -DGAD (Case No.SSR6/2017) dated 23 Jan 2017]
File
No. 15/14/2016 (Case No. SSR,/2017) Having regard to the Customs Tariff Act,
1975 as amended in 1995 and the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and
Collection of Anti- dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of
Injury) Rules, 1995, the Designated Authority (hereinafter referred to as the
Authority) recommended imposition of Anti-Dumping Duty on imports of Geogrid/Geostrips/Geostraps made of Polyester or Glass Fiber in all its forms
(including all widths and lengths) (hereinafter referred to as subject goods)
originating in or exported from China PR (hereinafter referred to as subject
country). The final finding of the Designated Authority was issued vide
notification no. 14/40/2010 on 19.12.2011 and definitive anti-dumping duties
were imposed vide D.O.R notification no. 11/2012-Cus dated 24th January, 2012.
The anti-dumping duties imposed in this case will expire on 23rd Jan., 2017.
2.
Based on the examination of the petition filed by the Domestic Industry,
Authority came to the conclusion that there is no need to initiate the Sunset
Review concerning imports of Geogrid/Geostrips/ Geostraps made of
Polyester or Glass Fiber in all its forms (including all widths and lengths)
originating in or Exported from China PR and accordingly, O.M. dated 20th
Jan.., 2017 was issued denying the request for Sunset Review. Against the O.M
the Domestic Industry filed the writ petition no. 640/2017 and 641/2017 before
the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi. The extracts of
directions from Hon’ble High Court are reproduced as
under:-
“Consequently, a direction is issued to the respondent
to - in the course of the day - initiate the Sunset Review in the petitioners’
case. At the same time, the Sunset Review and notification as well as the
orders shall carry a stipulation that the proceeding itself would be subject to
the final outcome of the writ proceedings.
It is further directed that the question of imposition
of Anti-Dumping duty would be in accordance with law. “
In compliance with the above stated directions of the Hon’ble High Court, a sunset review case is hereby
initiated with the following details:
The present petition has been filed by M/s Techfab India Industries Ltd. and M/s Strata Geosystems (India) Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as
Petitioners), on behalf of the domestic industry for the product under
consideration.
3.
Pursuant to the above stated orders of the Hon’ble
High Court, the Designated Authority hereby initiates sunset review in
accordance with section 9A (5) of the Custom Tariff Amendment) Act read with
Rule 23 of Antidumping Rules.
4.
The product under consideration is
‘of Geogrid/Geostrips/ Geostraps made of Polyester or Glass Fiber in all its forms
(including all widths and lengths)’. The scope of product under consideration
is same as was in original investigation.
5.
Though Geogrid is classified under subheading no
sub-headings 39021000, 39140090, 39201019, 39269099, 55034000, 56031300,
56039400, 56041000, 56049000, 56089090, 59031090 ,59039090, 59111000, 59113150,
59113190, 59119090, 70194000, 70195900, 70199010 & 70199090 in the Customs
Tariff Act but there is no dedicated custom classification for the product
under consideration. Customs classifications are indicative only and in no way
binding on the scope of this investigation.
6.
Since the proposed investigation is a
sunset review investigation, the scope of the product under consideration is
the same as that of the previously concluded original investigation.
7.
The investigation will determine
whether the expiry of the measure would be likely to lead to a continuation or
recurrence of dumping and injury. The Authority will examine whether imposition
of the duties is necessary to offset dumping and causing injury.
i. The country involved in this review
investigation is China PR.
ii. The period of investigation for the purpose of
the present review is from 1st April2015 to 30th June 2016. The injury
investigation period will however cover the periods April’2012-March’13,
ApriP2013-March’2014, April ‘2014-March’2015 and the POI
iii. The provisions of Rules 6,7,8,9,10,11,16,17, 18,19 and 20 of the Rules supra shall be
mutatis mutandis applicable in this review.
While
submitting questionnaire response, producer/ exporter may have to demonstrate
prevalence of market condition related to manufacture, production and sale of
subject good in the domestic market and in export to India and other countries.
For this purpose, the producer/exporter, may clarify and provide sufficient
information on the following:
(a)
Decision in regard to price, cost, input including raw material, cost of
technology and labor, output, sales and investment, are made in response to
market signal reflecting supply and demand and without significant state
interference and weather cost of major inputs substantially reflect market
value.
(b)
Production costs and financial situation does not suffer from any distortion.
(c)
The producer/exporter are subject to bankruptcy and property law which
guarantees legal certainty and stability for the operation of the firms.
(d)
Exchange rate conversions are carried out at the market rate.
8.
The known exporters in the subject country, the Government of the subject
country through their embassy in India, the importers and users in India known
to be concerned with the product are being addressed separately to submit
relevant information in the form and manner prescribed and to make their views
known to the Authority at the following address:
The
Designated Authority, Directorate General of Anti-Dumping & Allied Duties,
Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Commerce, 4th Floor, Jeevan Tara Building, 5 Parliament Street, New Delhi
-110001
9.
Any other interested party may also make
its submissions relevant to the investigation in the prescribed form and manner
within the time limit set out below.
10.
Any information relating to the present investigation and any request for
hearing should be sent in writing so as to reach the Authority at the address
mentioned above not later than forty days (40 Days) from the date of
publication of this Notification. If no information is received within the
prescribed time limit or the information received is incomplete, the Authority
may record its findings on the basis of the facts available on record in
accordance with the Anti-Dumping Rules.
11.
All the interested parties are hereby advised to intimate their interest
(including the nature of interest) in the instant matter and file their
questionnaire responses and offer their comments to the domestic industry’s
application regarding the need to continue or otherwise the Antidumping
measures within 40 days from the date of initiation of this investigation.
12.
In case confidentiality is claimed on any part of the questionnaire’s
response/submissions, the same must be submitted in two separate sets (a)
marked as Confidential (with title, index, number of pages, etc.) and (b) other
set marked as Non Confidential (with title, index, number of pages, etc.). All
the information supplied must be clearly marked as either “confidential” or
“non-confidential” at the top of each page.
13.
Information supplied without any confidential marking shall be treated as
non-confidential and the Authority shall be at liberty to allow the other
interested parties to inspect any such non-confidential information.
14.
For information claimed as confidential; the supplier of the information is
required to provide a good cause statement along with the supplied information
as to why such information cannot be disclosed and/or why summarization of such
information is not possible.
15.
The non-confidential version is required to be a replica of the confidential
version with the confidential information preferably indexed or blanked out
/summarized depending upon the information on which confidentiality is claimed.
The non-confidential summary must be in sufficient detail to permit a
reasonable understanding of the substance of the information furnished on
confidential basis. However, in exceptional circumstances, parties submitting
the confidentia1 information may indicate that such information is not
susceptible to summarization; a statement of reasons why summarization is not
possible must be provided to the satisfaction of the Authority.
16.
The Authority may accept or reject the request for confidentiality on
examination of the nature of the information submitted. If the Authority is
satisfied that the request for confidentiality is not warranted or the supplier
of the information is either unwilling to make the information public or to
authorize its disclosure in generalized or summary form, it may disregard such
information.
17.
Any submission made without a meaningful non-confidential version thereof or
without a good cause statement on the confidentiality claim may not be taken on
record by the Authority. The Authority on being satisfied and accepting the
need for confidentiality of the information provided; shall not disclose it to
any party without specific authorization of the party providing such
information.
18.
In terms of rule 6(7) any interested party may inspect the public file
containing non - confidential versions of the evidence submitted by other
interested parties.
19.
In case any interested party refuses access to and otherwise does not provide
necessary information within a reasonable period, or significantly impedes the
investigation, the Authority may declare such interested party as
non-cooperative and record its findings on the basis of the facts available to
it and make such recommendations to the Central Government as deemed fit.