China extends anti-dumping tariff for 5 years on India-made optical fibre

Hindustan Times 
August 19, 2020

China has extended an anti-dumping tariff on optical fibre made in India, the ministry of commerce said in a notice published on its website on Thursday. The duties will be renewed from Friday and remain in place for five years.

In the announcement, the MOFCOM “…decided to continue to impose anti-dumping duties on imported single-mode optical fibers originating in India from August 14 on the basis of the final review of the investigation results. The implementation period is 5 years”.

The ministry defined single-mode fibre as a fibre that transmits only a single-mode optical signal within a certain wavelength range. The punitive tariff on single-mode optical fibre takes effect from August 14 and lasts for five years, with tariffs ranging between 7.4 percent and 30.6 percent depending on the specific Indian manufacturers, the ministry said.

The extension of the anti-dumping duties comes in the backdrop of the ongoing Sino-India border tension at Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh and the cooling of bilateral economic ties.

The decision came after MOFCOM evaluated the possible damage to Chinese industries if anti-dumping measures are terminated, at the request of the domestic single-mode optical fiber industry on 13 August, 2019,” state media reported.

The Ministry of Commerce began to implement anti-dumping measures on imports of single-mode optical fibers from India in August 2014.

In June 2019, the MOFCOM initiated the final review investigation in response to a domestic industry application, the announcement said.

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