The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has notified the levy of anti-dumping duty (ADD) on Saccharin Imported from Thailand.
Earlier in 2019, the Central Government had imposed a countervailing duty on the Saccharin, vide notification.
In March, 2022, the department initiated an investigation in the matter of circumvention of the aforesaid countervailing duty and the consequent need to extend such a countervailing duty on imports of ‘Saccharin in all its forms’ falling under tariff item 2925 11 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, originating in, or exported from Thailand (hereinafter referred to as the ‘subject country’) into India and found that; (i) there has been a change in the pattern of trade in case of subject goods from the subject country; (ii) imports of subject goods from the subject country are entering at dumped prices; (iii) the import of subject goods from the subject country has undermined the remedial effect of existing countervailing duty measure on the imports of the subject goods originating in or exported from China PR.
Further, the designated authority has recommended the imposition of the existing countervailing duty imposed on the imports of ‘Saccharin in all its forms, originating in or exported from China PR.
A notification issued last week stated that “Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1), (1A) and (6) of section 9 of the Customs Tariff Act read with rules 20, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Countervailing Duty on Subsidized Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 3/2022-Customs (CVD), dated the 2nd June, 2022, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 414 (E) dated the 2nd June, 2022, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government, after considering the aforesaid final findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the subject goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in or exported from the countries specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), produced by the producers specified in the corresponding entry in column (5) and imported into India, a countervailing duty of an amount as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6) of the said Table.”
The countervailing duty imposed under this notification shall be effective from the date of initiation of the anti-circumvention investigation by the designated authority.
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