Anti Dumping Duty on Barium Carbonate - Yet another Resurrection
THE Government had imposed provisional anti dumping duty on Barium Carbonate originating in, or exported from, People's Republic of China, vide Notification No. 37/2010-Customs, dated the 23rd March, 2010. This Notification very clearly stated that the anti dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective up to and inclusive of the 22nd day of September 2010.
In September 2010, they forgot to extend it, but woke up five months later and issued a definitive anti dumping notification (No. 6/2011-Cus dated 7.2.2011) with retrospective effect from the date of imposition of the provisional antidumping duty that is 23.3.2010.
Even this extended resurrected imposition expired on 23.3.2015 and as usual they could not extend it.
Now after a month, they have retrospectively extended it by another year till 22nd day of March, 2016.
Finance Minister Jaitley promises that there would be no retrospective imposition of tax; maybe he is not aware of this regular retro illegality in his CBEC.
Notification No.., Dated: April 22 2015