The Hindu Business Line : Dumping duty on narrow woven fabrics mooted

THE Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry has recommended imposition of preliminary anti-dumping duty on imported narrow woven fabrics from China and Chinese Taipei, even as none of the exporters from these countries have responded to the authority's questionnaire and notice of initiation.

The product under probe is "narrow woven fabric having pile weave, made up of man-made fibres, used as a fastening-tape, though the subject goods are known by various synonyms in market parlance. The major uses of narrow woven fabrics are in industries such as garment, surgical and orthopaedic apparatus manufacturing, shoes and footwear manufacturing, luggage/bags manufacturing, toys, automobile upholstery and various other industrial garments.''

Upon a written complaint from Sky Industries Ltd, Mumbai, which constituted significantly more than 50 per cent of the total production of like articles in the country, the Authority set off a preliminary probe and found that the subject goods have been exported to India from the subject countries below its normal value, causing material injury to domestic industry in the process.

Accordingly, it is proposed to recommend anti-dumping duty on imported narrow woven fabrics which is the difference between $7.61 and the landed value of imports per kg from firms of Chinese Taipei and $8.02 and the landed value of imports per kg from firms of China.

In its probe, the Authority held that between 2000-01 and the period of investigation (PoI stretched from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003), dumped imports from the subject countries rose markedly in volume by 3,532 (more than 100 per cent from the previous year and in market share of imports by six times and in demand from 0.22 per cent to 31 per cent in the PoI). Even export prices decreased substantially during the whole period under probe and have undercut domestic industry prices during the PoI on an average by 10 times.

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