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New Delhi , Aug. 31

The Designated Authority in the Department of Commerce has initiated anti-dumping investigation into import of pre-sensitised positive aluminium plates from China, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea. The product otherwise described as PS Plates is primarily used in printing establishments.

In its initiation notification, the Authority said the probe covers PS Plates of all types of thickness ranging from 0.15 mm to 0.4 mm with a variation of 0.03 mm on either side. These plates serve as an image carrier on an offset printing machine and are the final link in the lithographic offset printing process.

Applications

They are used by the printing industry on sheet-fed and web-fed offset printing machines for printing of newspapers, flexible packaging material, books, general commercial printing and stationary, and business forms.

PS Plates are manufactured from coils or sheets of `litho-grade' aluminium by electro-chemically treating the surface, followed by photo-sensitive coating, drying and cutting the sheets to required dimensions.

The application seeking imposition of anti-dumping duty on imported PS Plates is filed by Technova Imaging Systems (P) Ltd, Mumbai, and Stovec Industries Ltd, Gujarat. These producers constitute 50 per cent of total domestic production. The applicants adduced information on various parameters pertaining to material injury and threat of material injury to domestic industry.

Accordingly, the Authority has initiated anti-dumping probe into the existence, degree and effect of alleged dumping of PS Plates from the subject countries and the period of investigation (PoI) is April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006 (12 months). However, the period for injury examination would cover April 1, 2002, to the end of PoI.

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