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DGTR asks all 21 registered parties to provide submissions related to anti-dumping investigation on NaCN
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Shardul Nautiyal, Mumbai
October 31 , 2023
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The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has asked all 21 registered parties or entities in anti-dumping investigation case of sodium cyanide (NaCN) to provide non-confidential versions (NCV) of their submissions on priority.
This is in relation to an anti-dumping investigation on NaCN imported from China, European Union (EU), Japan and Korea.
Sodium cyanide is used in bulk drugs and in many organic syntheses and pharmaceutical intermediates.
“All registered parties are requested to e-mail the NCV of their submissions made hitherto and submissions which will be made henceforth, to all other interested parties with a copy marked to adg14-dgtr@gov.in, adv13-dgtr@gov.in, dd11-dgtr@gov.in and dd16-dgtr@gov.in in the prescribed format,” stated Vivek Singh, joint director, DGTR in a notice.
“In case, any such party who has registered itself, but its name and other details are not mentioned in the list, it may please inform the DGTR at the email addresses specified so that the list could be updated to ensure that no interested party is deprived of the aforesaid process of exchange of NCV submissions,” Singh further stated.
An application has been filed by Hindusthan Chemical Company and United Phosphorous Limited (hereinafter referred to as the 'applicants'), before the DGTR, in accordance with the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, and the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of lnjury) Rules, 1995, (hereinafter referred to as the 'AD Rules, 1995'), for the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation and the imposition of appropriate anti-dumping duty on imports of sodium cyanide (hereinafter referred to as the 'subject goods' or the product under consideration (PUC) originating in or exported from China PR, European Union (hereinafter referred to as "EU"), Japan and Korea RP (hereinafter referred to as the 'subject countries').
The applicants have alleged that material injury is being caused to the domestic industry due to the alleged dumped imports, originating in or exported from the subject countries and have requested for the imposition of anti-dumping duties on the imports of the subject goods from the subject countries.
The applicants have stated that there are no significant differences in the article produced by the applicants and exported from the subject countries. The article produced by the applicants and imported from the subject countries are comparable in terms of physical and chemical characteristics, manufacturing process and technology, functions and uses, product specifications, pricing, distribution and marketing, and tariff classification of the subject goods.
The subject goods and the article manufactured by the applicants are technically and commercially substitutable. The applicants have claimed that consumers of the subject goods are using the subject goods and the article manufactured by the applicants interchangeably.
Thus, for the purposes of the present investigation, the article produced by the applicants have been considered as like article to the product being imported from China, EU, Japan and Korea.
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