Anti Dumping Duty on plastic ophthalmic lenses - withdrawn
IF you are using spectacles, especially the bifocal lens, you will find the glasses too heavy – so they have invented the plastic lens so that there is not much of a strain either on your nose or eyes. But the Government of India found that plastic ophthalmic lenses were being dumped from the People's Republic of China (China PR) and Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). So they imposed an anti dumping duty vide Notification No. 55/2004-Customs dated the 19th April, 2004. This was extended up to 4th September, 2009 by Notification No. 103/2008-Customs, dated the 4th September, 2008.
Now the Designated Authority has recommended that the anti dumping duties need not be extended further.
So the Government has rescinded the Notification No. 55/2004-Customs dated the 19th April, 2004.
So from 11.05.2009, there is no anti dumping duty on plastic ophthalmic lenses.
But now we have a new kind of lens called Progressive lens, which is very popular. Government can have an eye on this – with progressive lens of course.
Notification NO. ., Dated: May 11, 2009