GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No. 112/2007-Customs

New Delhi, dated the 30th October, 2007

G.S.R…. (E). - Whereas, in the matter of import of Vitamin A Palmitate (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods),
falling under the Tariff item 2936 21 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), (hereinafter
referred to as the said Customs Tariff Act), originating in, or exported from, Switzerland and the People’s Republic
of China (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries), the designated authority in preliminary findings vide
notification No. 14/11/2005-DGAD dated the 20th February, 2007, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I,

1. Section 1, dated the 20th February, 2007, had come to the conclusion that -
   1. the subject goods have entered the Indian market from the subject countries at prices less than their
      normal values in the domestic markets of the exporting countries;
      
      
   2. the dumping margins of the subject goods imported from the subject countries or territories are
      substantial and above de minimis;
      
      
   3. the domestic industry suffers material injury;
      
      
   4. and the injury has been caused to the domestic industry both by volume and price effect of dumped imports
      of the subject goods originating in or exported from the subject counties;
      
      and had recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty on the imports of subject goods,
      originating in, or exported from, the subject countries;
      
      And whereas on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the designated authority, the Central Government had
      imposed provisional anti-dumping duty on the subject goods, vide notification of the Government of India in the
      Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.47/2007-CUSTOMS, dated the 28th March, 2007, published in
      Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated the 28th March, 2007 vide G.S.R.
      No.244 (E), dated the 28th March, 2007;
      
      And whereas the designated authority in its final findings vide notification No.14/11/2005 -DGAD, dated the 14th
      September, 2007, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 17th September,
      2007, has come to the conclusion that–
      1. the subject goods have entered the Indian market from the subject countries at prices less than their
         normal values in the domestic markets of the exporting countries;
         
         
      2. the dumping margins of the subject goods imported from the subject countries or territories are substantial
         and above de minimis;
         
         
      3. the domestic industry suffers material injury; and
         
         
      4. the injury has been caused to the domestic industry both by volume and price effect of dumped imports
         of the subject goods originating in or exported from the subject counties;
         
         and has recommended the imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the subject goods
         originating in, or exported, from the subject countries;
         
         Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (5) of section 9A of the Customs
         Tariff Act, 1975(51 of 1975) 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, on the basis of 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 Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2),
         specification of goods as specified in column (4), originating in the country 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 country 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 the rate
         equal to the amount indicated 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.

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2. The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be levied with effect from the date of imposition of the provisional anti-dumping duty, that is, the 28th March, 2007.

(G.G. Pai)
Under Secretary to the Government of India.
F.No.354/31/2007 –TRU