TIOL-DDT 2359 · Friday, 23 May 2014 · story 2 of 6

Anti Dumping Duty on 'Methylene Chloride' - Resurrected

GOVERNMENT had imposed provisional anti dumping duty on Methylene Chloride falling under Chapter 29 originating in, or exported from the European Union, United States of America and Korea RP by Notification No. 24/2013-Cus (ADD), dated 21.10.2013.

While reporting this in DDT 2215 dated 23.10.2013, we had mentioned,

The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be levied for a period not exceeding six months (unless revoked, amended or superseded earlier).

So, this lapses on 20.4.2014 - and the Government is sure to forget that day. What will happen? They will retrospectively extend it.

This is exactly what happened.

And we reminded them on 22.04.2014 in .

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