Anti-Dumping Duty Imposed on Untreated Fumed Silica from China (US$1296 per MT) and Korea (US$ 373 per MT) for Five Years - Complainant Cabot Sanmar

[Notification No. 66 /2021 -Customs (ADD) dated 11 November 2021]

G.S.R.---(E).- Whereas, in the matter of “Untreated Fumed Silica” (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under tariff item 2811 22 00 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 the People’s Republic of China and Korea RP (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority in its final findings, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, vide notification No. 6/40/2020-DGTR, dated the 20th September, 2021, has come to the conclusion that imposition of anti- dumping duty is required to offset the injury to the domestic industry caused by the dumped imports of subject goods from the subject country and has recommended imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the subject goods, originating in or exported from the subject country and imported into India;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (5) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act read with rules 18 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, after considering the aforesaid final 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 the tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in the 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, an 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 (9) and as per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (8) of the said Table namely :-

Table
S.No.	Tariff Item	Description of goods	Country of Origin	Country of Export	Producer	Amount	Unit of measure-ment	Currency
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)
1.	28112 200	Untreated fumed silica	China PR	Any country including China PR	M/s Shandong Dongyue Silicone Material Co., Ltd.	1,018	MT	US$
2.	28112 200	Untreated fumed silica	China PR	Any country including China PR	Wacker Chemicals Fumed Silica (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd.	NIL	MT	US$
3.	28112 200	Untreated fumed silica	China PR	Any country including China PR	Any producer other than SN 1. and 2.	1,296	MT	US$
4.	28112 200	Untreated fumed silica	Any country other than China PR and Korea RP	China PR	Any	1,296	MT	US$
5.	28112 200	Untreated fumed silica	Korea RP	Any country including Korea RP	OCI Company Limited	NIL	MT	US$
6.	28112 200	Untreated fumed silica	Korea RP	Any country including Korea RP	Any producer other than S.N. 5.	373	MT	US$
7.	28112 200	Untreated fumed silica a	Any country other than Korea RP and China PR	Korea RP	Any	373	MT	US$

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

Explanation.- (1) For the purposes of this notification, the rate of exchange applicable for the 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. CBIC-190354/234/2021-TO(TRU-1)-CBEC]