Whereas in the matter of import of certain grades/ types of alloy and non-alloy steel billets, bars and rounds of sizes 70 mm to 250 mm diameter conforming to Indian Standards specifications or any other international specifications equivalent to Indian Standards specifications, which are listed in the Annexure and falling under sub-heading No. 7206.90, 7207.19 and 7207.20, of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) originating in, or exported from, Russia, China and Ukraine, the Designated Authority vide its preliminary findings, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 1^st December, 2000, has come to the conclusion that -

(i)        exporters from Russia and China have been exporting subject goods below normal value, resulting in dumping;

(ii)       the Indian industry has suffered material injury;

(iii)       injury has been caused cumulatively by the dumped imports of the subject goods from Russia and China.

And has considered it necessary to impose anti-dumping duty, provisionally, pending final determination, on all imports of the subject goods, originating in, or exported from, Russia and China;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act, read with rule 13 and rule 20 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government on the basis of the above findings of the Designated Authority hereby imposes on grades/ types of alloy and non-alloy steel billets, bars and rounds of sizes 70 mm to 250 mm diameter conforming to Indian Standard specifications or any other international specifications equivalent to Indian Standards specification, which are listed in the Annexure and falling under sub-heading No. 7206.90, 7207.19 and 7207.20, of the said Customs Tariff Act, originating in, or exported from, country specified in column (2) of the Table below, when exported by the exporters  mentioned against the corresponding  country in column (3) of the said Table, and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty at the rate which is equivalent to the corresponding amount mentioned in column (4) of the said Table.

2.      The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective upto and inclusive of the 25^th day of June 2001.

ANNEXURE