Notification No. 40/2015, Dated 12th August 2015

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No. 40/2015-Customs (ADD)

New Delhi, the 12th August, 2015

G.S.R. (E). – Whereas, the designated authority, vide notification No. 15/12/2014- DGAD, dated the 9th June, 2014, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, had initiated a review in the matter of continuation of anti-dumping duty on imports of Potassium Carbonate (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods) falling under tariff item 2836 40 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the Customs Tariff Act), originating in or exported from the European Union, People’s Republic of China, Korea RP and Taiwan (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries), imposed vide notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 61/2009-Customs, dated the 10th June, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 399(E), dated the 10th June, 2009;

And whereas, the Central Government had extended the anti-dumping duty on the subject goods, originating in or exported from the subject countries upto and inclusive of the 9th June, 2015, vide notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.34/2014-Customs (ADD), dated the 23rd July, 2014, published in Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R 529(E), dated the 23rd July, 2014;

And whereas, in the matter of review of anti-dumping duty on import of the subject goods, originating in or exported from the subject countries, the designated authority in its final findings, published vide notification No. 15/12/2014-DGAD, dated the 8th June, 2015, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, has come to the conclusion that-