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 Customs Notification No. 49/2003 dated 27.3.2003
Provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of Methylene Chloride from the European Union, South Africa and Singapore

  

                G.S.R.   (E).- WHEREAS in the matter of import of Methylene Chloride, falling under tariff item  2903 12 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, the European Union, South Africa and Singapore, the designated authority vide its preliminary findings notification No.17/1/2001-DGAD dated the 24th December, 2002, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 24th December, 2002 has come to the conclusion that –

 

(a) Methylene Chloride, originating in, or exported from, the European Union, South Africa and Singapore,  has been exported to India below normal value, resulting in dumping;

(b) the domestic industry has suffered material injury; 

(c) injury has been caused by imports from the European Union, South Africa and Singapore;

 

and has recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty, pending final determination, on imports of Methylene Chloride, originating in, or exported from, the European Union, South Africa and Singapore;

 

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 goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under tariff item  of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), the specification of which is specified in column (4) of the said Table,  originating in the country or territory as specified in the corresponding entry in column (5) , and produced by the producer as specified in the corresponding entry in column (7), when exported from the country or territory as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), by the exporter as specified in the corresponding entry in   column (8), and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty at a rate  which is equivalent to the amount as specified in the corresponding entry in column (9), in the currency as specified in the corresponding entry in column (11) and per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (10), of the said Table.

 

TABLE

 

S. No.

Tariff item 

Description of goods

Specification

Country or territory

of origin

Country or Territory

of Export

Producer

Exporter

Amount

Unit of measurement

Currency

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

1.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

 

Bulk

European Union

Any country

Any producer

Any exporter

159.20

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

2.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

 

Packed

European Union

Any country

Any producer

Any exporter

43.33

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

3.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

 

Bulk or Packed

South Africa

Any country

Any producer

Any exporter

181.74

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

4.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

 

Bulk or Packed

Singapore

Any country

Any producer

Any exporter

77.87

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

5.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

Bulk

Any country except, European Union, South Africa and Singapore

 

European Union

Any producer

Any exporter

159.20

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

6.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

Packed

Any country except, European Union, South Africa and Singapore

 

European Union

Any producer

Any exporter

43.33

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

7.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

Bulk or Packed

Any country except, European Union, South Africa and Singapore

 

South Africa

Any producer

Any exporter

181.74

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

8.

2903 12 00

Methylene Chloride

Bulk or Packed

Any country except, European Union, South Africa and Singapore

Singapore

Any producer

Any exporter

77.87

Metric Tonne

US Dollar

 

2.             The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective upto and inclusive of the  26th day of September, 2003, and shall be payable in Indian currency.

 

Explanation. - For the purposes of this notification, rate of exchange applicable for the purposes of 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 and Company Affairs (Department of Revenue), issued from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of sub-section (3) of section 14 of the said Customs Act, 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.354/4/2003-TRU] 

                                                                            (Alok Shukla)

Deputy Secretary to  the  Government of  India