G. Srinivasan

In the case of Flexys NV Belgium of the EU, the anti-dumping on rubber chemical PX13 is $562 per tonne, while in the case of Lanxess GmbH Germany, it is $816 per tonne.

New Delhi , Aug. 27

THE Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry has recommended imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on import of certain rubber chemicals (MOR, PX13 and TDQ) from the EU, US, China and Chinese Taipei.

In its final findings, notified recently, the Authority said the products under consideration in this probe are three specific rubber chemicals used in the manufacture of rubber products viz., anti-degradants PX13, accelerators MOR and antioxidant TDQ.

Even as the All India Tyre Manufacturers' Association (ATMA) has contended that there is no such classification as `rubber chemicals', the classification of the subject chemicals into rubber chemicals is probably done on the basis of use of those chemicals while there is no such classification in customs tariff.

The Authority is of the view that the products under probe are three distinct yet same general category of rubber chemicals used in the rubber industry. The domestic industry is same for these rubber chemicals, which manufactures all these chemicals in the same manufacturing facilities.

The application for the investigation has been filed by NOCIL, Mumbai; Bayer India Ltd, ICI Ltd and Merchem Ltd are the other manufacturers of some of these products.

After investigations into dumping, the Authority found that the subject goods have entered the Indian market from the subject countries at prices less than their normal value in the domestic markets of the exporting countries.

As such, the domestic industry suffered material injury by cheap imports from these countries.

Accordingly, the Authority said that having regard to the lesser duty rule followed by it, it recommends imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty equal to the lesser of margin of dumping and margin of injury so as to remove the injury to the domestic industry.

Thus in the case of Flexys NV Belgium of the EU, the anti-dumping on rubber chemical PX13 is $562 per tonne, while in the case of Lanxess GmbH Germany, the anti-dumping duty is $816 per tonne. For the rest of the firms exporting from the EU, the anti-dumping duty recommended is $840 per tonne.

For firms exporting the product under probe from China and Chinese Taipei, the anti-dumping duty proposed is $740 per tonne.

In the case of MOR chemical, the anti-dumping duty for Lanxess NV Belgium is $350 per tonne, while for exporting firms from the rest of the European Union, the anti-dumping duty is $490 per tonne. In the case of firms from the US, the recommended anti-dumping duty is $510 per tonne, while in the case of firms from China, it is $450 per tonne.

In the case of rubber chemical TDQ, the recommended anti-dumping duty is $282 per tonne for the firm General Qumica SA, Spain, while for other EU countries, the definitive anti-dumping duty is $327 per tonne.

For firms exporting the TDQ rubber chemicals from Chinese Taipei, the anti-dumping duty is $270 per tonne.

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