Anti Dumping Duty

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INTRODUCTION
An anti-dumping duty is a protectionist tariff that a domestic government imposes on foreign imports that it believes are priced below fair market value. Dumping is a process where a company exports a product at a price lower than the price it normally charges on its own home market.
DGAD (Directorate General Of Anti-Dumping And Allied Duties) is an Organization that aims to provide Trade Remedy Measures to the domestic industry for effectively competing in the domestic market against dumped goods and articles, by exporting companies and firms of any country, from any part of the world, under Customs Act and WTO guidelines through an institutional framework. The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties is to provide …show more content…

Then ten products were allotted to each intern. For my ten products I found out when was the duty imposed, on which country it was imposed, and what the amount of duty imposed was. This was found out by studying the final findings of that product on the DGAD website. After that import data of each product was downloaded for five years preceding and five years succeeding the imposition of the anti dumping duty. The data was downloaded from WITS (World Integrated Trade Solutions) and an analysis was done. The unit value and its fluctuations were also observed by dividing the Trade Value of imports by the Quantity of imports. Along with that, the trend of imports from that country (on which the anti dumping duty was imposed) as a proportion of world’s imports were also …show more content…

PRODUCT : 8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE

PARTNER : China
YEAR : 1997
PRODUCT HS CODE : 293340
DUTY : Rs. 183- 206 per kg. depending on the exporter

Year Trade Value of Imports from China in 1000 USD Trade Value of Imports from World in 1000 USD TradeValue Share of China in Total World Imports in % Quantity Imported from China in Kgs

Quantity Imported from World in Kgs Quantity Share of China in Total World Imports in % Unit Value of Imports from China in USD Unit Value of Imports from the World in USD
1993 671.641 1717.826 39.09831 317750 402577 78.929 2.11374 4.267074
1994 477.937 2604.912 18.34753 76601 297361 25.76027 6.239305 8.7601
1995 951.312 2142.073 44.41081 78101 239249 32.64423 12.18054 8.953321
1996 176.908 717.772 24.64682 21468 71757 29.91764 8.240544 10.00282
1997 409.234 1155.98 35.40148 42789 108958 39.2711 9.564 10.60941
1998 590.771 1322.627 44.66649 72683 120258 60.43922 8.128049 10.99825
1999 1068.7 2475.948 43.16327 122914 195101 63.00019 8.694697 12.6906
2000 952.599 3593.159 26.51146 133339 243208 54.82509 7.144189 14.77402
2001 961.854 2849.907 33.75036 127401 192775 66.08793 7.549815 14.78359

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