Anti Dumping Duty on Tetrafluoroethane - No Resurrection
PROVISIONAL Anti Dumping Duty was imposed on 1, 1, 1, 2-Tetrafluoroethane or R-134a of all types, originating in, or exported from, People's Republic of China and Japan, by notification No. 52/2010-Customs, dated the 19 th April 2010.
This Notification expired on 18.10.2010.
Now the Government has imposed definitive anti dumping duty on the products for a period of five years from 15.07.2011. For a change, a welcome one at that, the Government has not imposed the duty retrospectively from the date of provisional imposition and that too after its lapse.
This is how Government should work. If they had forgotten to extend the provisional anti dumping duty, let it be; but the importer should not be made a scapegoat as was being done all these days.
DDT had been harping on this issue for more than five years and we extend our heartiest congratulations to the Board.
Notification No. , Dated: July 15, 2011