Anti Dumping Duty

Anti Dumping duty is the penalty in the form of additional duty imposed upon suspiciously low-priced imports into a particular country to protect the local industry from unfair competition. The Central Government levy additional duty equal to margin of dumping on such articles if the goods have been sold at less than normal value. Dumping Margin is the difference between the Normal value and the export price of the goods under complaint. It is generally expressed as a percentage of the export price.

Dumping of goods is becoming a serious threat to the health of our domestic Industry, custom duty, and import duty in India. Companies need to take proactive steps and highlight such cases before they   create dent in their balance sheets and P&L statements by hampering growth

Jindal steel which commands 80% market share of Cold-Rolled Flat Products in 2008 has demonstrated a classic example of one such case. Jindal Steel with help of Cybex Exim solutions (www.cybex.in) initiated anti-dumping investigations on products coming from different countries like China PR, Japan, Korea, European Union, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand and USA. (http://commerce.nic.in/writereaddata/traderemedies/adint_Cold_Rolled_Flat_Products_Stainless_Steel_ChinaPR_USA.htm).  

 Jindal steel was hugely benefitted from secondary research done by Cybex on imports to India on different products under cold-rolled Flat Products and Jindal Steel was able to provide evidence on how the Normal Price was way higher than the price on which steel was exported to Indian. It formed the basis on which a request was filed to Government to impose retrospective Imposition of duty.

 Large companies with significant market share are nowadays concerned about dumping of goods especially by China as it hampers profitability and lowers their market share. However experts point out that the systematic approach is to take help of all available Imports and exports data to furnish substantial evidence to support your case.