Govt becomes selective in levying dumping duty; rejection rate increase to 43%

India's push to make the country Atmanirbhar, India’s Finance Ministry is now becoming increasingly selective in levying dumping duty with the rejection rate increasing to 43 per cent after August 2020, reported TOI.

Between 1991 and August 2020, the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), a quasi-judicial body recommended the imposition of anti-dumping duty in 1,039 cases and it was accepted into all but seven cases, resulting in a rejection rate of 0.7 per cent, showed data compiled by Centre for Digital Economy Policy Research.

The Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign that came into existence after the pandemic has shown that DGTR's rejection rate is now 43 per cent as only 61 of its 141 recommendations have been accepted, according to data accessed by TOI.


But for the last three years, the government has been very selective in imposing the duty even after the DGTR investigations have established that the goods were being "dumped" into India.

Dumping when it comes to foreign trade means the price in the importing country is lower than the origin and causes or threatens to cause injury to the domestic industry.

Chinese goods which were imported have always been the biggest target of anti-dumping action in the country. The revenue department rejected almost 43 of the 80 cases where the origin country was China.

Of 29 per cent of the rejected cases where China was the sole country, products that were imported into India, included tyre, amoxycillin, melamine and nylon tyre cord fabric, among others.

The list of other goods under the radar are carbon black, caustic soda, flat rolled products of stainless steel, viscose spun yarn and polyester yarn.

Industry players, however, point out that in a large number of cases dumping will eventually wipe out domestic players.