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This Notification imposes Anti-Dumping duty on Acrylonitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR) originating in, or exported from Taiwan
6th April. 2000
Notification No. 37 / 2000-Customs
WHEREAS in the matter of import of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR), falling under Chapter 40 of the First Schedule to
the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, Taiwan, the Designated Authority vide its
preliminary findings, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 28th September, 1999 had
come to the conclusion that-
(a) Acrylonitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR) originating in, or exported from, Taiwan has been exported to India below normal
value, resulting in dumping;
(b) the Indian industry has suffered material injury;
(c) the injury has been caused cumulatively by the imports from the subject country;
AND WHEREAS on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the Designated Authority, the Central Government had imposed an
anti-dumping duty vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 120/99-
Customs, dated the 2nd November, 1999 (G.S.R.743(E), dated the 2"l"i November, 1999), published in Part II, Section 3, Sub-
section (i) of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated the 2nd November, 1999;
AND WHEREAS the Designated Authority vide its final findings, dated the 23rd February, 2000, published in the Gazette of
India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 23rd February, 2000, has come to the conclusion that -
(a) Acrylonitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR) originating in, or exported from, Taiwan has been exported to India below normal
value, resulting in dumping;
(b) the domestic industry has suffered material injury;
(c) the causal link between dumping and injury is established.
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 me Designated Authority, hereby imposes on the said Acrylonitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR) falling under Chapter
40 of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act and originating in, or exported from, Taiwan, when exported by the
exporter mentioned in column (2) of the Table annexed hereto and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty at a rate which is
equivalent to the amount per metric tonne mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table.
Table
Sl. No. Name of the Exporter
Amount of duty
(Rupees per Metric Tonne)
(1) (2) (3)
1.M/s Nantex Industry Co. Ltd. Taiwan 6288
2.Exporter other than above 6288
2. The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be levied with effect from the date of the imposition of the
provisional duty, i.e. the 2nd November, 1999.
(Sanjeev Sachdeva)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India