Notification No. 109/2004, Dated 17th Nov 2004

         Whereas, the designated authority had initiated anti dumping investigations into the existence, degree and effect of dumping in the matter of import of 6-Hexanelactam (also known as epsilon-Caprolactam) (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under tariff item 2933 71 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, Japan, European Union, Nigeria and Thailand (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries), vide initiation notification No.14/15/2003-DGAD, dated the 22^nd  September, 2003, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 22^nd September, 2003;

Whereas, the designated authority, vide its final findings notification No.14/15/2003-DGAD, dated the 16^th September, 2004, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 17^thSeptember, 2004,  has come to the conclusion that -

(a) the subject goods in all forms, originating in, or exported from, the subject countries, have been exported to India  below its normal value;

(b) the domestic industry has suffered material injury by way of financial losses due to suppressed Net Sales Realisation on account of price undercutting/underselling caused by low landed prices of the dumped subject  goods;

(c) the injury has been caused to the domestic industry by dumping of the subject goods originating in, or exported from, the subject countries;

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

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1), read with sub-section (5) of section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act and 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, on the basis of the aforesaid final 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 countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (5), and produced by the producers as specified in the corresponding entry in column (7), when exported from the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), by the exporters 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 difference between, 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, and the landed value of such imported goods in like currency per like unit of measurement.

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