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India imposes anti-dumping duty on Iran, Qatar and China for chemical dumping

The Dollar Business Bureau India has imposed anti-dumping duty ranging between $23.78 to $300.22 on the imports of  Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) from China, Qatar and Iran. LAB is majorly used in the preparation of various detergents. A notice to the effect was issued by the DGAD  via Customs notification no.12/2017-CUSTOMS dated April 11, 2017, to protect the domestic players from the cheap dumping of the shipments. Two Indian companies, Nirma Ltd and Tamilnadu Petroproducts had jointly filed an application on 7th December, 2015 to the DGAD to investigate the cheap dumping of the chemical by various companies of Qatar, China and Iran. There are two other major Indian players in the market, the Reliance group and the Indian Oil Corporation. India ...

Government mulls withdrawal of anti-dumping duties on imported soda ash

The Dollar Business Bureau The government is considering the withdrawal of anti-dumping duties imposed on the import of soda ash sourced from the US, China, Pakistan and other countries. Soda ash, also called Disodium Carbonate (Na2CO3), is mainly used in the manufacturing of detergent, soap and float glass products. To protect the domestic producers and suppliers of the chemical, the finance department had in July 2012 imposed anti-dumping duties ranging from $2.3 per tonne to $38.79 a tonne of import of the product for five years. The duty was imposed after the Directorate General of Anti-Dumping (DGAD) had found that soda ash was imported from China, the US, Pakistan, Iran, Ukraine, Kenya and European Union countries at below its normal rate. ...