GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
Notification No. 26/2009-Customs
New Delhi, the 23rd March, 2009
G.S.R. (E).- Whereas, in the matter of import of all goods falling under tariff
heading 7606 (Aluminium Flat Rolled Products) and all goods falling under tariff
heading 7607 (Aluminum Foil), respectively of the First Schedule to the Customs
Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), from
People's Republic of China, the Director General (Safeguard), in preliminary
findings vide number G.S.R. 65 (E), dated the 2nd February, 2009, published in
the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated
the 2nd February, 2009, had come to the conclusion that increased imports of
Aluminium Flat Rolled Products and Aluminum Foil into India from People's
Republic of China had caused and threatened to cause market disruption to
domestic industry of Aluminium Flat Rolled Products and Aluminium Foil and it
necessitates the imposition of provisional safeguard duty on imports of
Aluminium Flat Rolled Products and Aluminium Foil into India from People's
Republic of China ;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of
section 8C of the said Act, read with rules 10 and 14 of the Customs Tariff
(Transitional Product Specific Safeguard Duty) Rules, 2002, the Central
Government after considering the said findings of the Director General
(Safeguard), hereby imposes a safeguard duty:-
- at the rate of 21 per cent. ad valorem on all goods falling under heading
7606 (Aluminium Flat Rolled Products) of the First Schedule to the said Act,
when imported into India from People's Republic of China; and
- at the rate of 35 per cent. ad valorem on all goods falling under heading
7607 (Aluminium Foil) of the First Schedule to the said Act, when imported into
India from People's Republic of China.
- The safeguard duty imposed under this notification shall be effective upto
and inclusive of the 8th October, 2009 (unless revoked, superseded or amended
earlier).
(Unmesh Sharad Wagh)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
[F.No. 354/60/2009-TRU]