Anti-dumping duty on Plain Medium Density Fibre Board - re re resurrection
THE Duty was imposed provisionally by Notification No. 21/2009-Customs, dated 27 th February, 2009 and was valid till 26th day of August, 2009. So from 27 th August, 2009, there was no anti dumping duty on this product. But that is not how our lawmakers function.
While covering this in - 02.03.2009, we had reported, "this is valid till 26th day of August, 2009 and will of course be valid even if the government forgets to extend it then and chooses to do it on a later day."
This is what exactly happened.
The government imposed definitive anti dumping duty effective from the date of imposition of the provisional anti-dumping duty by Notification No. 116/2009-Cus dated 8.10.2009. So the government forgot to extend the antidumping duty on 26 th August, 2009 and who gets punished for such memory loss? The importer of course! The Anti Dumping section badly needs an alarm clock.
This definitive anti dumping duty would have expired on 26.2.2014 and as usual they were sleeping. They woke up a fortnight later and extended the validity of the notification till 26.2.2015, notwithstanding intermittent black holes.
Notification No. , Dated: March 12, 2014