Customs Notification No. 124 dated 11^th November 2002

WHEREAS in the matter of import of D (-) Para Hydroxy Phenyl Glycine Methyl Potassium Dane Salt, falling under sub-heading 2942.00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, People�s Republic of China and Singapore (herein after referred to as the subject countries), the designated authority vide its preliminary findings notification No. 14/ 23/ 2002 - DGAD dated the 1^st October, 2002, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 1^st October, 2002, has come to the conclusion that:

(a)    D (-) Para Hydroxy Phenyl Glycine Methyl Potassium Dane Salt has been exported to India from the subject countries below its normal value;

(b)    the Indian industry has suffered material injury and facing threat of further injury;

(c)    the domestic industry, on account of the injury being suffered, is facing material retardation in the establishment of new industry to manufacture D (-) Para Hydroxy Phenyl Glycine Methyl Potassium Dane Salt;

(d)    the injury has been caused cumulatively by the imports from the subject countries;

And has recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty, pending final determination, on imports of D (-) Para Hydroxy Phenyl Glycine Methyl Potassium Dane Salt, originating in, or exported from, the subject countries;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act, read with rules 13 and 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 aforesaid findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under sub-heading of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), the specification of which is specified in column (4) of the said Table, originating in the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (5), and produced by the producers as specified in the corresponding entry in column (7), when exported from the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), by the exporters as specified in the corresponding entry in column (8), and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty at a rate which is equivalent to the difference between, the amount as specified in the corresponding entry in column (9), in the currency as specified in the corresponding entry in column (11) and per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (10), of the said Table, and the landed value of such imported goods in like currency per like unit of measurement.

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2.     The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective upto and inclusive of the 10^th day of May 2003, and shall be payable in Indian currency.