Anti Dumping Duty imposed on Red Phophorus - 's' missing from phosphorous - Spelling mistake may cause litigation
GOVERNMENT has proposed to impose anti dumping duty on 'Red Phosphorous, excluding red phosphorous used in electronic applications', falling under Chapter 28 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, originating in, or exported from the People's Republic of China, and imported into India.
The Board either does not have a spell checker or does not use it. In the Table in the Notification prescribing the rates of anti dumping duty, the product is mentioned as Red Phophorus - please note that "s" is missing after 'pho'. So, now the product is phophorus and not phosphorus. There is no product by name 'phophorus' and so no anti dumping duty. Should law-making be so casual?
Board will come up with a backdated correction.
Notification No. , Dated: March 19, 2014