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[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDI NARY, PART II,
SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)

Notification
No. 1/2016-Customs (SG)
New Delhi, the 29
th
March, 2016
G.S.R. (E). - Whereas, in the matter of import of "Hot-rolled flat products of non-alloy
and other alloy Steel in coils of a width of 600 mm or more” (hereinafter referred to as the
subject goods), falling under heading 7208 or tariff item 7225 30 90 of the First Schedule to the
Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the Customs Tariff Act), the
Director General (Safeguard), in his preliminary findings, published vide number G.S.R. 690 (E),
dated the 9th September, 2015, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-
section (i), dated the 9th September, 2015, had come to the conclusion that increased imports of
subject goods into India has caused and threatened to cause serious injury to the domestic
industry and producers of subject goods, thereby necessitating the imposition of provisional
safeguard duty on imports of the subject goods into India;
And whereas, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the Director General (Safeguard),
the Central Government has imposed provisional safeguard duty on import of the subject goods
into India for a period of two hundred days with effect from the 14
th
day of September, 2015
vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of
Revenue), No. 2/2015-Customs (SG), dated the 14
th
September, 2015 published in the Gazette of
India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number GSR 694 (E), dated the 14
th

September, 2015;
And whereas, in the final findings vide number G.S.R. 308(E), dated the 15
th
March,
2016, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), the
Director General (Safeguard) has recommended the imposition of safeguard duty on subject
goods falling under heading 7208 or tariff item 7225 30 90 of the First Schedule to the Customs
Tariff Act for a period of two years and six months from the date of levy of provisional
safeguard duty;
Now, Therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 8B of
the Customs Tariff Act, read with rules 12, 14 and 17 of the Customs Tariff (Identification and
Assessment of Safeguard Duty) Rules, 1997 and in supersession of the notification of the
Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 2/2015-
Customs(SG), dated the14
th
September, 2015 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number GSR 694 (E), dated the 14
th
September, 2015,

the Central Government, after considering the said findings of the Director General (Safeguards)
and subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, hereby imposes on subject goods falling under
heading 7208 or tariff item 7225 30 90 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, when
imported into India, a safeguard duty at the following rate, namely:-
(a) twenty per cent ad valorem minus anti-dumping duty payable, if any, when
imported during the period from 14
th
September, 2015 to 13
th
September, 2016 (both
days inclusive);
(b) eighteen per cent ad valorem minus anti-dumping duty payable, if any, when
imported during the period from 14
th
September, 2016 to 13
th
March, 2017 (both days
inclusive);
(c) fifteen per cent ad valorem minus anti-dumping duty payable, if any, when
imported during the period from 14
th
March, 2017 to 13
th
September, 2017 (both days
inclusive); and
(d) ten per cent ad valorem minus anti-dumping duty payable, if any, when imported
during the period from 14
th
September, 2017 to 13
th
March, 2018 (both days inclusive).
2. The safeguard duty shall not be imposed on the subject goods which are imported at or
above the Minimum Import Price in terms of the notification of the Government of India in the
Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Commerce) (Directorate General of Foreign
Trade) No. 38/2015-2020, dated the 5
th
February, 2016 published in the Gazette of India
(Extraordinary), Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide S.O. 391(E) dated the 5
th
February, 2016.
3. Nothing contained in this notification shall apply to imports of subject goods from
countries notified as developing countries under clause (a) of sub-section (6) of section 8B of the
Customs Tariff Act, other than People’s Republic of China and Ukraine.
Explanation: The following are not included in the scope of subject goods:

a) Hot-rolled flat products of steel with nominal width less than 600mm;
b) API grade steel;
c) Silicon electrical steel;
d) Hot-rolled flat products of steel of spring steel quality;
e) Hot-rolled flat products of steel which are electrolytically plated or coated with zinc;
f) Hot-rolled flat products of steel otherwise plated or coated with zinc; and
g) Hot-rolled flat products of stainless steel.
[F.No .354/219/2015-TRU]

(Anurag Sehgal)
Under Secretary to the Government of India