Dear Members,

 

O/o The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has issued Notification  dated 19^th  January 2021  regarding Final Findings in Anti-Dumping Duty investigation concerning imports of Soda Ash originating in or exported from Turkey and USA.

 

You might recall, that DGTR had issued a public notice vide Notification No. 6/39/2019 – DGTR dated 22^nd January, 2020 initiating the subject investigation in accordance with the AD Rules to determine existence, degree and effect of the alleged dumping of the subject goods, originating in or exported from the subject countries, and to recommend the amount of anti-dumping duty, which if levied, would be adequate to remove the alleged injury to the Domestic Industry. 

 

Whereas, M/s DCW Ltd., M/s RSPL and M/s GHCL have filed an application before the Designated Authority for imposition of Anti-dumping duty on imports of “Soda Ash” originating in or exported from Turkey and USA .

 

 

 

Ø Conclusion (By DGTR)

 

Having regard to the contentions raised, information provided, and submissions made by the interested parties and facts available before the Authority as recorded in these final findings and on the basis of the above analysis, the Authority concludes that:

 

1. The product under consideration has been exported to India from the subject countries below its associated normal value, thus resulting in dumping.

 

1. Injury both material and threat due to dumping of the product under consideration from the subject countries has been evaluated. Further, the margin of injury has been evaluated for the cooperative and non-cooperative producers/exporters for imposition of applicable Anti-Dumping duties where warranted and as stated in the recommendation below.

 

 

Ø Recommendations (by DGTR)

 

The Authority notes that the investigation was initiated and notified to all interested parties and adequate opportunity was given to the exporters, importers and other interested parties to provide positive information on the aspect of dumping, injury and causal link. Having initiated and conducted the investigation into dumping, injury and causal link in terms of the provisions laid down under the Rules and having established positive dumping margin and further having evaluated material injury to the domestic industry caused by such dumped imports, the Authority is of the view that imposition of definitive antidumping duty is required to offset dumping and injury only against non-cooperative producers/exporters of Turkey and not on cooperative producers/exporters of Turkey. Also, the measure is not recommended on any of the producers/exporters of USA. The Authority, in view of above, recommends imposition of anti­dumping duty on imports of subject goods in the form and manner described here under

 

The Authority 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 as stated in the table below. Noting the fact that landed price of subject goods shows declining trend in POI contrary to the cost of production trend in POI, the Authority, therefore, considers it appropriate to recommend imposition of the anti-dumping duty on the basis of Reference/Benchmark Price on the imports of the subject goods, originating in or exported from Turkey, from the date of notification to be issued in this regard by the Central Government. Reference Price is computed as “Landed Value + Lower of [(1) Dumping Margin and (2) Injury Margin]”. The anti-dumping duty shall be equal to the difference between the Reference Price indicated in column 7 of the table below and the landed value. The landed value of imports for this purpose shall be assessable value as determined by the Customs under Customs Act, 1962 and applicable level of custom duties except duties levied under Section 3, 3A, 8B, 9, 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975

 

                                      DUTY TABLE

S.No	HS Code*	Description of goods	Coun-try of origin	Country of Ex-port	Producer	Refe-rence Price	Unit	Currency
-1	-2	-3	-4	-5	-6	-7	-8	-9
1	2836.20	Soda ash (Disodium Carbonate)	Turkey	Any country including Turkey	Any producer other than: i. ETI Soda Uretim  Pazarlama Nakliyat  Ve Elektrik Uretim  Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. ii. Kazan Soda Elektrik  Uretim A.S iii. Türkiye Şişe ve  Cam Fabrikaları  Anonim Şirketi	242.35	Metric Tonne	US$

 

Ø Further Procedure

An appeal against the order of the Central Government that may arise out of this recommendation shall lie before the Customs, Excise and Service tax Appellate Tribunal in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Act

 

 

Members may take note  of the final findings and do the needful accordingly.   For complete details, you may also refer to the said DGTR final finding Notification using below link:

 

https://www.dgtr.gov.in/sites/default/files/Soda%20Ash%20FF%20English.pdf

 

 

Feed-backs, if  any, may be sent to  the council on  e-mail id’s- deepak.gupta@chemexcil.gov.in, pwdd@chemexcil.gov.in,   and rodelhi@chemexcil.gov.in   for records/ further deliberations, if required. 

 

Thanking You,

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Deepak Gupta

Acting Executive Director

CHEMEXCIL