Notification No. 54/2018, Dated 18 October 2018

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. 54/2018-Customs (ADD)

New Delhi, the 18th October, 2018

G.S.R. (E). –Whereas, in the matter of “Straight Length Bars and Rods of Alloy Steel” (hereinafter referred to as the ‘subject goods’), falling under heading 7228 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 China PR (hereinafter referred to as the ‘subject country’), and imported into India, the designated authority vide its final findings published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, vide notification No. F. No. 6/10/2017-DGAD, dated the 5th September, 2018, has come to the conclusion that –

(i) the subject goods have been exported to India from the subject country below normal value;
(b) the domestic industry has suffered material injury on account of subject imports from the subject country; and
(c) the injury has been caused by the dumped imports of the subject goods from the subject country.

            and has recommended the imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the subject goods, originating in, or exported from subject country and imported into India, in order to offset dumping and injury;

            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, -

(I)                 on the goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below (except forged bars and tool and die steel), falling under heading 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), 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