Notification no 02/2020 Customs (Anti-Dumping Duty) date on 30th January, 2020

 

 

Seeks to impose provisional anti-dumping duty on the imports of the " Digital offset printing plates", originating in or exported from China PR, Japan, Korea RP, Taiwan and Vietnam.   

 The extract of CUSTOMS (ADD) Notification No. 02/2020- CUSTOMS is given below: 

    Notification No. 02/2020-CUSTOMS (anti-dumping duty)

 

[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. 2 /2020-Customs (ADD)

 

New Delhi, the 30^th January, 2020

 

G.S.R. (E). –Whereas, in the matter of “Digital Offset Printing Plates” (hereinafter referred to as the „subject goods?), falling under sub-headings 8442 50 and tariff items 3701 30 00, 3704 00 90, 3705 10 00, 7606 11 90, 7606 91 90, 7606 92 90 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 People?s Republic of China, Japan, Korea RP, Taiwan and Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as the „subject countries?), and imported into India, the designated authority in its preliminary findings published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, vide notification number 6/7/2019- DGTR dated the 3^rd October, 2019, has come to the provisional conclusion that –

 

 

(a)               there is substantial increase in imports of subject goods from subject counties in absolute terms as well as in relation to production and consumption in India;

 

(b)               the subject goods have been exported to India from the subject countries below normal value;

 

(c)               the domestic industry has suffered material injury on account of subject imports from the subject countries; and

 

(d)              the injury has been caused by the dumped imports of the subject goods from the subject countries,

 

and has recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of the subject goods, originating in, or exported from subject countries and imported into India, in order to remove the injury to the domestic industry.

 

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 9A of the 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, after considering the aforesaid preliminary 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 sub-heading or tariff items 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), imported into India, an anti-dumping duty at the rate equal to the amount specified in the corresponding entry in column (7), in the currency as specified in the corresponding entry in column (9) and as per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (8) of the said Table, namely :-

 

TABLE

 

Sl.	Sub-heading/tariff				Description	Country	Country of	Producer	Amount	Unit	Currency
No		item				of origin	export
(1)		(2)			(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)
1.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	People?s	People?s	Lucky	0.52	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset	Republic	Republic	Huaguang			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing	of China	of China	Graphics Co.
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates			Ltd.
2.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	People?s	People?s	Kodak China	Nil	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset	Republic	Republic	Graphic			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing	of China	of China	Communicatio
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates			ns Co. Ltd.
3.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	People?s	People?s	Shanghai	0.57	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset	Republic	Republic	Strong State			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing	of China	of China	Printing
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates			Equipment
								Limited
4.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	People?s	People?s	Fujifilm	Nil	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset	Republic	Republic	Printing Plate			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing	of China	of China	(China) Co.
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates			Ltd.
5.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	People?s	People?s	Any other	0.57	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset	Republic	Republic	product			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing	of China	of China	except S. No.
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates			1 to 4
								mentioned
								above in
								column no.
								(6)
6.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	People?s	Any	Any	0.57	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset	Republic	country				Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing	of China	other than
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates		People?s
							Republic
							of China
7.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Korea RP	Korea RP	Jeil C&P Co.	0.26	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset			Ltd.			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates
8.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Korea RP	Korea RP	Any other	0.89	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset			producer			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing			except Jeil
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates			C&P Co. Ltd.
9.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Korea RP	Any	Any	0.89	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset		country				Dollar

	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing		other than
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates		Korea RP
10.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Japan	Japan	Fujifilm	0.04	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset			Corporation			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates
11.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Japan	Japan	Any other	0.21	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset			producer			Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing			except
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates			Fujifilm
								Corporation
12.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Japan	Any	Any	0.21	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset		country				Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing		other than
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates		Japan
13.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Vietnam	Vietnam	Any	0.76	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset						Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates
14.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Vietnam	Any	Any	0.76	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset		country				Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing		other than
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates		Vietnam
15.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Taiwan	Taiwan	Any	0.88	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset						Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates
16.	8442	50, 3701 30		00,	Digital	Taiwan	Any	Any	0.88	sqm	US
	3704	00 90,	3705	10	Offset		country				Dollar
	00, 7606 11		90, 7606		Printing		other than
	91 90, 7606		92 90		Plates		Taiwan

 

 

1. The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective for a period not exceeding six months (unless revoked, superseded or amended earlier) from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette and shall be paid in Indian currency.

 

Explanation.- For the purposes of this notification, rate of exchange applicable for the purpose 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 section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), 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, 1962.

 

[F. No. 354/165/2019-TRU]

 

Gaurav Singh

Deputy Secretary to the Government of India