Preliminary Anti-dumping Duty Imposed on Opal Glassware from China and UAE

[Customs Notification No. 72 dated 9th August 2011]

Whereas in the matter of imports of Opal Glassware (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under heading 7013 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred as the said Customs Tariff Act), originating in, or exported from, People’s Republic of China and UAE (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority in its preliminary findings vide notification No.14/24/2010-DGAD, dated the 27th June, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 27th June, 2011, had come to the conclusion that-

(i)      the product under consideration had been exported to India from the subject countries below Normal values.

(ii)     the domestic industry had suffered material injury on account of subject imports from subject countries.

(iii)     the material injury had been caused by the dumped imports of subject goods from the subject countries.

(iv)    the injury had been caused cumulatively by the imports from the subject countries.

and had recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty on the imports of subject goods, originating in, or exported from, the subject countries;

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 heading of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in the country specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), and produced by the producer specified in the corresponding entry in column (5) and exported by the exporter specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty equal to the amount arrived at by applying the percentage indicated in the corresponding entry in column (7), of the said Table.

Table

S.No.

Tariff head

Description of goods

Country

Producer

Exporter

Duty amount (USD/kg)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

1

7013

Opal Glass-ware

China PR

M/s Wenzhou Huishunda Industrial Trade Co. Ltd.,

M/s Wenzhou Huishunda Industrial Trade Co. Ltd.,

0.82

2

7013

Opal Glass-ware

China PR

Any

Any

0.98

3

7013

Opal Glass-ware

UAE

Any

Any

0.68

2.  The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective for a period of six months from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette and shall be payable in Indian currency.

3.  The rate of exchange applicable for the purposes of calculation of anti-dumping duty under this notification 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.354/188/2011 –TRU]