The Finance Ministry has imposed provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of plain gypsum plaster boards fom China, Thailand, Indonesia and the UAE.
Plain gypsum boards are referred to as standard gypsum boards, regular gypsum boards or gypsum boards in common trade parlance across the world. Such boards are used in interior construction in suspended ceiling and partition applications.
This provisional anti-dumping duty will be valid for six months. The petition seeking anti-dumping probe on gypsum plaster boards was filed by Saint-Gobain Gyproc India Ltd.
Both moisture resistant boards and fire resistant boards were excluded from the ambit of the anti-dumping probe.
The provisional anti-dumping duty now imposed by the revenue department ranges from $7.25 per cubic metre to $51.70 per cubic metre depending on the exporter and the country of export.