Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 3/ 2012-Customs (SG)
New Delhi, dated the 29th May, 2012
G.S.R. (E). – Whereas, in the matter of import of Phthalic anhydride
(hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under tariff item 2917
35 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975)
(hereinafter referred to as the said Act), the Director General (Safeguard), in
preliminary findings, vide number G.S.R. 719 (E), dated the 23rd September,
2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,
Sub-section (i), dated the 23rd September, had come to the conclusion that
increased imports of Phthalic anhydride into India had caused and threatened to
cause further serious injury to the domestic producers of Phthalic anhydride and
it had necessitated the imposition of provisional safeguard duty on imports of
Phthalic anhydride into India;
And whereas, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the Director General
(Safeguard), the Central Government had imposed provisional safeguard duty on
imports of the subject goods vide notification of the Government of India in the
Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue),
No. 1/2012-Customs (SG), dated the
17th January, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R.29 (E), dated the 17th January,
2012;
And whereas, the Director General (Safeguard) in its final findings vide
number G.S.R. 263(E), dated the 29th March, 2012, published in the Gazette of
India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 29th March,
2012, had come to the conclusion that increased imports of Phthalic anhydride
into India had caused and threatened to cause further serious injury to the
domestic producers of Phthalic anhydride and it necessitated the imposition of
safeguard duty on imports of Phthalic anhydride into India, and had recommended
the imposition of safeguard duty on imports of the subject goods into India;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of
section 8B of the said Act, read with rules 12 and 14 of the Customs Tariff
(Identification and Assessment of Safeguard Duty) Rules, 1997, the Central
Government after considering the said findings of the Director General
(Safeguards), hereby imposes on Phthalic anhydride, falling under tariff item
2917 35 00 of the First Schedule to the said Act, when imported into India, a
safeguard duty at the rate of 10% ad valorem, when imported from the 17th day of
January, 2012 to 16th day of January, 2013 (both days inclusive).
2. Nothing contained in this notification shall apply to imports of Phthalic
anhydride from countries notified as developing countries under clause (a) of
sub-section (6) of section 8B of the said Act, other than Pakistan, China and
Thailand.
(Raj Kumar Digvijay)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
[F. No.354/1/2012-TRU]