GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No.22/2013-Customs (ADD)

New Delhi, the 10^th October, 2013

G.S.R._(E). -WHEREAS in the matter of import of Bulk Drug Cefadroxil Monohydrate (hereinafter referred to as subject goods), falling under Chapter 29 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), originating in or exported from the European Union (hereinafter referred to as subject country), and imported into India, the designated authority in its final findings published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, vide notification No. 14/8/2011-DGAD dated 19^th July, 2013, has come to the conclusion, inter alia, that –

1. the subject goods have entered the Indian market from the subject country below associated normal value, thus, resulting in dumping of the subject goods;
   
   
2. the domestic industry has suffered material injury in respect of such goods;
   
   
3. the injury to the domestic industry has been caused due to the dumped imports of subject goods from the subject country ;

AND WHEREAS, the designated authority has recommended imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the subject goods, originating in or exported from the European Union and imported into India, in order to remove injury to the domestic industry;

NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (5) of section 9A of the said Act, read with rules 18 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, after considering the aforesaid final findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the subject goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under tariff item of the First Schedule to the said Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in the country as specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), and produced by the producer as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), when exported from the country as specified in the corresponding entry in column (5), by the exporter as specified in the corresponding entry in column (7), and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty at the rate equal to the amount as indicated in the corresponding entry in column (8), in the currency as specified in the corresponding entry in column (10) and as per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (9) of the said Table.

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2. The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be levied for a period of five years (unless revoked, amended or superseded earlier) from the date of publication of this notification in the Gazette of India and shall be paid in Indian currency.

Explanation. - For the purposes of this notification, rate of exchange applicable for the purposes of calculation of such anti-dumping duty shall be the rate which is specified in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), issued from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and the relevant date for determination of the rate of exchange shall be the date of presentation of the bill of entry under section 46 of the said Customs Act.

[F.No.354/19/2013 –TRU]

[Akshay Joshi]
Under Secretary to the Government of India