China imposes provisional anti-dumping duties on solar

products from U.S., ROK

English.news.cn 2013-07-18 20:16:49

BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that it will impose
provisional anti-dumping duties on imported solar-grade polysilicon from the United States and
the Republic of Korea.
Starting July 24, Chinese importers of solar-grade polysilicon from the United States will be
required to pay deposit rates with Chinese customs ranging from 53.3 percent to 57 percent,
depending on the dumping margin, the MOC said in a statement posted on its website.
Importers from the ROK will have to pay deposit rates ranging from 2.4 percent to 48.7 percent,
according to the statement.
"After preliminary investigations, we found exporters in the United States and the ROK dumped
their products on the Chinese market and caused material harm to China's domestic solar
industry," the MOC said.
Last October, the U.S. government imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties on
crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China.
The commerce department said Chinese producers and exporters sold solar cells in the U.S.
market at dumping margins ranging from 18.32 percent to 249.96 percent, and they received
countervailable subsidies of 14.78 percent to 15.97 percent.
Solar-grade polysilicon is an important material for making solar cells.
Wang Bohua, secretary general of China Photovoltaic Industry Alliance, said the MOC's decision
reflected its different approaches in dealing with solar disputes with the United States and the
European Union.
In June, the EU imposed an interim anti-dumping duty of 11.8 percent on imports of all Chinese
solar panel products, including panels, cells and wafers.
If both sides fail to come to an agreement, the duty will be raised to an average of 47.6 percent
two months after it went into effect.
The two sides are trying to negotiate in the hope of averting the final ruling becoming an
actuality.
The MOC launched similar probes into polysilicon from EU in November. Wang Bohua said the
ministry's decision on Thursday revealed its leniency towards EU imports.

India slaps anti-dumping duty on Chinese
paracetamol

India has imposed anti-dumping duty of $787 per tonne on import of paracetamol, a widely used
medicine, from China for five years to protect interest of domestic players from the cheap
shipments.
The anti-dumping duty imposed (on paracetamol) under this notification shall be effective for a
period of five years..., said the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in the Revenue
Department.
The duty will be at $787 per tonne, it said.
The duty has been slapped on recommendation of the Directorate General of Anti-dumping Duty,
which carried out a review of the impact of the levy on its import from China.
The anti-dumping duty, a WTO compatible levy to discourage imports, was first imposed on the
bulk drug in 2001 and extended through different stages till September 2013.
The DGAD after a Sunset Review had concluded that despite the anti-dumping measures,
dumping of paracetamol originating in or exported from China has continued unabated causing
injury to the domestic industry.
Should the present anti-dumping duties be revoked, dumping of the subject goods may in all
likelihood intensify, causing further injury to the domestic industry, the Authority had
concluded while recommending to the revenue department continuation of the levy in August.
Paracetamol is a bulk pharmaceutical active ingredient, displaying analgesic and antipyretic
properties. It is used in a number of OTC drug formulations in the form of powders, granules,
injectibles and tablets.
The DGAD carried the review or probe for 15 months January, 2011 to 31st March, 2012.
Import of the drug increased from 6,385 tonne in 2008-09 to 10,834 tonne during the period of
investigation (POI).
Capacity utilisation of the domestic industry was 85 per cent in 2008-09, but it has come down to
79 per cent in the POI. The annual demand for the drug is about 25,380 tonnes.