India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) under the Ministry of Commerce has commenced a mid-term review of the antidumping (AD) duty levied on low-ash metallurgical coke imported from Australia and China in 2016, a government official said on Friday, December 14.
The official stated that the DGTR had commenced a review of the AD duty following a petition filed by Mukund Limited, the Indian Ferro Alloys Producers Association and Orissa Metalliks Limited.
These petitioners have claimed that the circumstances that were prevalent when the AD duty was imposed in 2016 have changed significantly and that the existing AD rate was no longer warranted, the official said.
The other justifications cited by the petitioners seeking a review of the duty were that one of the major Indian producers of low-ash metallurgical coke which had filed the original antidumping petition based on which the DGTR had imposed the levy in 2016, was currently under insolvency proceedings. In addition, quoting the petition seeking the mid-term review, the government official stated that the landed price of low-ash metallurgical coke increased sharply since the AD rate was imposed and that domestic consumers of the product should not be allowed to suffer the additional burden of the import restrictive duty.
In 2016, the DGTR, following investigations into complaints of dumping of low-ash metallurgical coke, had imposed an AD duty of $25.20/mt on imports from China and $16.29/mt on inward shipments from Australia.
