Provisional Assessment of Anti-dumping Allowed on Solar Panel Frames Exported by M/s Anhui Krant Aluminum Products Co., Ltd Pending Outcome of Review

Ø Anti-dumping Duty of US$ 577 per MT on Aluminium Frame for Solar Panels/Modules from China on Vishakha Metals Complaint Notified vide Notification No. 16/2024-Customs (ADD) dated 27 September, 2024

India Orders Provisional Assessment on Solar Panel Aluminium Frame Imports from China

· The Ministry of Finance has issued Notification No. 07/2026-Customs (ADD) dated 19 May 2026 regarding imports of “Anodized Aluminium Frames for Solar Panels/Modules.”

· The product falls under tariff items 7610 9010, 7610 9030, and 7616 9990 and originates in or is exported from China PR.

· Earlier, the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) had concluded that the goods were being dumped in India at unfair prices, causing material retardation to the domestic industry.

· Based on DGTR findings, the government had already imposed definitive anti-dumping duty through Notification No. 16/2024-Customs (ADD) dated 27 September 2024.

· Chinese producer/exporter M/s Anhui Krant Aluminum Products Co., Ltd requested a new shipper review under Rule 22 of the Anti-Dumping Rules, 1995.

· DGTR initiated the review through notification dated 20 March 2026 and recommended provisional assessment of imports made by the company until completion of the review.

· The Central Government has now ordered provisional assessment on imports of the subject goods exported by M/s Anhui Krant Aluminum Products Co., Ltd pending the outcome of the review.

· Customs authorities may require security or guarantee to cover any deficiency if retrospective anti-dumping duty is imposed after completion of the review.

· If anti-dumping duty is recommended and imposed after the review, importers will be liable to pay duty retrospectively from the date of initiation of the review.

[Notification No. 07/2026-Customs (ADD) dated 19 May, 2026]

Seeks to provide for provisional assessment of subjects goods exported by M/s Anhui Krant Aluminum Products Co., Ltd under notification No. 16/2024-Customs (ADD) dated 27.09.2024, till the final findings of New Shipper Review are issued

G.S.R….(E).- Whereas, in the matter of import of “Anodized Aluminium Frames for Solar Panels/Modules” (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under the tariff items 7610 9010, 7610 9030 or 7616 9990 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in or exported from China PR (hereinafter referred to as the subject country), the designated authority, vide its final findings in notification No. 6/7/2023-DGTR, dated the 29th June, 2024, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 29th June, 2024, had come to the conclusion that,-

(i) the subject goods have been exported to India from the subject country at dumped prices;

(ii) the dumping of subject goods from subject country has materially retarded the establishment of domestic industry;

(iii) material retardation to the establishment of the domestic industry has been caused by the dumped imports of subject goods from the subject country,

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

And whereas, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the designated authority, the Central Government had imposed anti-dumping duty on the subject goods vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 16/2024-Customs (ADD), dated the 27th September, 2024, published vide number G.S.R. 599(E), in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 27th September, 2024;

And whereas, M/s Anhui Krant Aluminum Products Co., Ltd (Producer and Exporter), has requested for review in terms of rule 22 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, in respect of exports of the subject goods made by them, and the designated authority, vide new shipper review notification No. 7/28/2025-DGTR dated the 20th March, 2026, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 20th March, 2026, has recommended provisional assessment of all exports of the subject goods made by the above stated party till the completion of the review by it;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (2) of rule 22 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 recommendation of the designated authority, hereby orders that pending the outcome of the said review by the designated authority, the subject goods, when originating in or exported from the subject country by M/s Anhui Krant Aluminum Products Co., Ltd (Producer and Exporter), and imported into India, shall be subjected to provisional assessment till the review is completed.

2. The provisional assessment may be subject to such security or guarantee as the proper officer of customs deems fit for payment of the deficiency, if any, in case a definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed retrospectively, on completion of investigation by the designated authority.

3. In case of recommendation of anti-dumping duty after completion of the said review by the designated authority, the importer shall be liable to pay the amount of such anti-dumping duty recommended on review and imposed on all imports of subject goods when originating in or exported from the subject country by M/s Anhui Krant Aluminum Products Co., Ltd (Producer and Exporter), and imported into India, from the date of initiation of the said review.

[F.No. 190354/132/2024-TRU]