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02 Jan '23
2 min readIndia has extended the anti-dumping duty (ADD) on various jute products imported from Bangladesh and Nepal. Bangladesh had urged the Indian government not to accept recommendations for extension, while the Indian industry was lobbying to ensure the duty comes into effect. The finance ministry issued a notification issued on Friday to extend ADD for 5 years.
The duty is applicable in the range of $6.3 to $351.72 per MT. The notification said, “The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be levied for a period of five years (unless revoked, superseded or amended earlier) from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette and shall be payable in Indian currency.”
Indian jute industry was lobbying relentlessly with the government to protect the domestic sector from cheaper imports from the neighbouring countries. India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies recommended in October this year that the Indian finance ministry should continue the ADD on jute products from Bangladesh and Nepal.
During a recent visit to India, Bangladesh commerce minister Tipu Munshi had requested his Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal not to extend the tenure of ADD on the import of jute and jute goods from his country that was imposed on January 5, 2017 and was supposed to end on December 31, 2022.
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Now is the time to take these Bhartis to the WTO - and also assign tit-for-tat ADD's, NTB's and Heavy tariffs on Indian imports to Bangladesh.
But given we have an Indian agent as commerce minister and AL in power, none of this is going to happen.
Indians are on the one hand planning to double exports to Bangladesh via CEPA (to the tune of $32 Billion) and one the other hand they are blocking Bangladeshi exports to India at every opportunity.
You give a monkey a banana, and then they take the cue and start dancing on your head.
One more reason to remove AL from power.
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