Saturday, March 6, 2010

Anti-Dumping mechanism
  
RAJYA SABHA

The Rajya Sabha was today informed that no representation from any public sector steel company has been received by the Directorate General of Anti Dumping & Allied Duties (DGAD&AD) for evolving a time bound anti-dumping mechanism.

Giving this information in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today, the Minister of State for Steel Shri A.Sai Prathap said that there is no general case of imports causing injury to the domestic steel industry. In specific cases where the domestic industry has filed application with the DGAD&AD with prima facie evidence of dumping of a particular category of steel in the country, the petitions have been duly investigated by DGAD&AD. Wherever appropriate, DGAD&AD has notified the final findings recommending to the Central Government, the amount and form of anti-dumping that is sufficient to remove injury to the domestic industry.

The petitions submitted by domestic industry are processed by DGAD&AD as per the procedures and within the time limits specified under the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 as amended in 1995 and the rules made there under. These laws are in consonance with WTO’s Agreement on Anti-Dumping. As such, therefore, a time bound anti-dumping mechanism already exists.

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