Notification No. 91/2003, Dated 10th June 2003

10th June, 2003

Notification No. 91 /2003 - Customs  

            WHEREAS in the matter of import of Potassium carbonate, falling under tariff item  2836 40  00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, the European Union, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, the designated authority vide its preliminary findings notification No.14/42/2002-DGAD dated the 30th April, 2003, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 1st May, 2003 has come to the conclusion that –

(a)	Potassium carbonate, originating in, or exported from, the European Union, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea and Taiwan, has been exported to India below normal value, resulting in dumping;
(b)	the Indian industry has suffered material injury from exports of Potassium carbonate from the European Union, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea and Taiwan;
(c)	the injury has been caused cumulatively by imports from the European Union, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea and Taiwan;

and has recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty, pending final determination, on imports of Potassium carbonate, originating in, or exported from the European Union, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea and Taiwan;

            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.

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2.             The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective upto and inclusive of the  9th day of December, 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 (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.

V. Sivasubramanian
Deputy Secretary to  the  Government of  India

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