20/1998 date 5-5-1998

Anti-Dumping Duty on Graphite electrodes Exported from USA, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Spain, Belgium, China PR
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), read with rule 18 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of anti-dumping Duty on dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government, on the basis of the Final Findings of the designated authority published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section I, dated 27th March, 1998, that there is dumping in respect of the graphite electrodes falling under Chapter 85 of the First Schedule to the said Act, and originating in or exported from the countries mentioned in column (2) of the Table hereto annexed, hereby imposes on the said graphite electrodes of the size mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table, originating in or exported from the country mentioned in the corresponding entry in the said column (2) when exported by the exporters mentioned in column (3) of the said Table and imported into India, and anti-dumping duty at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (5) of the said Table.

S.No.	Products originating in or exported from	Name of exporter	Size of the electrode	Amount of Duty
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
1.	USA, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Spain, Belgium or China PR	Any exporter	Between and including 26" to 30"	NIL
IN CASE OF NORMAL POWER GRADE GRAPHITE ELECTRODES (INCLUDING HIGH POWER)
2.	People's Republic of China	(a) Liaoning Metals and Minerals Import & Export Corpn.	all sizes up to 24"	5517
		(b) China National non Ferrous Metal I/E Corpn.	all sizes upto 24"	13114
		(c) Any other exports	all sizes upto 24"	20818
IN CASE OF HIGH POWER GRAPHITE ELECTRODES
3.	USA	(a) Ucar Inc.	all sizes upto 24"	20714
		(b)Exporter other than above	all sizes upto 24"	20714
4.	Germany	(a) SGL Carbon AG	24" up to and including 22"	10337 22235
		(b) Exporter other than above	24" upto and including 22"	10337 22235
5.	France	Any exporter	all sizes upto 24"	30997
6.	Italy	Any exporter	all sizes upto 24"	22947
7.	Austria	Any exporter	all sizes upto 24"	28649
8.	Spain	Any exporter	all sizes upto 24"	18427
9.	Belgium	Any exporter	all sizes upto 24"	18220