Notification No. 10/2016, Dated 29th March 2016

[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. 10/2016-Customs (ADD)

New Delhi, the 29th March, 2016

G.S.R. (E). –Whereas, in the matter of ‘2-Ethyl Hexanol (2EH)’ (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under tariff item 2905 16 20 of Chapter 29 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, Indonesia, Korea RP, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Chinese Taipei and United States of America, and imported into India, the designated authority in its final findings published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1,vide notification number 14/24/2014-DGAD, dated the 18th February, 2016, has come to the conclusion that –

(i)        the subject goods have entered the Indian market from the European Union, United States of America, Korea RP, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia and Indonesia at prices less than their normal values and the dumping margins of the dumped imports from these countries are substantial and above de minimize;

(ii)       the dumping margin of the imports of the subject goods from Saudi Arabia is found to be de minimize and therefore, the investigation against this country has been terminated;

(iii)     the domestic industry has suffered material injury; and

(iv)      the material injury has been caused by the volume and price effects of dumped imports from the countries named at (i) above, coupled with disruption in raw material supply during a significant part of the period of investigation,

and has recommended imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the subject goods, originating in, or exported from the European Union, Indonesia, Korea RP, Malaysia, Chinese Taipei and United States of America (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, in order to remove injury to the domestic industry;

Now, Therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (5) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, read with 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, after considering the aforesaid final findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the subject goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), and exported from the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (5), produced by the producers as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), exported by the exporters as specified in the corresponding entry in column (7) and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty at the rate equal to the amount as specified in the corresponding entry in column (8), in the currency as specified in the corresponding entry in column (10) and as per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (9) of the said Table, namely:-