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India imposes anti-dumping duty on digital printing plates from five nations
Aug-04-2020

In order to guard domestic manufacturers from cheap imports, India has imposed anti-dumping duty on digital printing plates from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam for five years. The Commerce Ministry's investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) recommended the duty after its probe concluded that there is a substantial increase in imports of digital offset printing plates from these countries in absolute terms.

The Department of Revenue in a notification said the anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective for a period of five years (unless revoked, superseded or amended earlier). The duty imposed is in the range of $0.13 per sqm to $0.77 per sqm. DGTR had stated that plates have been exported to India from these countries below their normal value, which has resulted in dumping, consequently impacting the domestic industry.

The imports of these plates increased to 16.32 million sqm during the period of investigation (July 2018 to March 2019) from 8 million sqm in 2015-16. The product is used in printing industry for transferring data as an image (dot patterns or text) on to paper or on tin sheets or poly films. In a separate notification, the Department of Revenue said it has imposed provisional anti-dumping duty of up to $150.80 per tonne on aniline imported from China for six months. 

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