Anti Dumping Duty on DVD-R and DVD-RW - Re-resurrection
GOVERNMENT had imposed anti dumping duty on imports of Digital Versatile Discs-Recordable (DVD-R and DVD-RW) originating in or exported from China PR, Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei by Notification No. 8/2009-Customs, dated the 22nd January, 2009 with effect from 23.07.2008 and this notification expired with effect from 23.07.2013.
They forgot to extend it by 23.07.2013. The resurrection trick has come to their rescue. It has extended the life of the notification till 22.07.2014 - more than a month after its official death by Notification No. 19/2013-Cus(ADD) dated 29.08.2013.
Again nobody remembered about this notification on 22.07.2014 and it had a second death on that day.
Shakespeare said, "Cowards die many times before their death", CBEC believes that dead notifications can be resurrected any number of times.
Government has again imposed anti dumping duty for five years with effect from 21.11.2014.
Why can't they keep track of their sunset notifications? Resurrecting dead notifications has become an incorrigible habit with the Board in spite of the Board's own instructions that such resurrection is not valid! Is the Board God?
Perhaps, no one in the Board wants to remember the Delhi High Court decision in the case of Kumho Petrochemicals Co. Ltd. 2014-TIOL-1130-HC-DEL-AD.
Notification No. , Dated: November 21, 2014