Definitive Anti Dumping Duty on Flax Fabric - yet another resurrection
DDT is never tired of reporting the slumber of the word – they have absolutely no mechanism to keep track of their sun set notifications.
Provisional anti dumping duty was imposed on import of Flax fabric, falling under the heading 5309 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 originating in, or exported from, the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong by Notification No. 30/2009- Cus ., dated 26-3-2009. The Notification itself affirmed, The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective upto and inclusive of the 25th September, 2009.
So, after 26.09.2009, there was no anti dumping duty on this product.
Now the Government has imposed definitive anti dumping duty on the product – and with effect from 26.03.2009 - the date of imposition of the provisional anti-dumping duty!
What would be the position of the imports made during the period 26.09.2009 to 20.12.2009? Will they allege that the importer had suppressed the fact, [with intent to evade duty] that the government was going to impose this duty with retrospective effect?
NOTIFICATION NO. Dated: December 21, 2009