DGTR recommends anti-dumping duties on Chinese yarn amid ethyl chloroformate probe

NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), a assemblage nether the Union commerce ministry, has recommended the imposition of anti-dumping duties connected Chinese viscose rayon filament yarn (above 75 deniers)—a wide utilized man-made textile fibre, according to a authorities notification issued connected Monday.The projected duties see $386 per metric tonne for Xinxiang Chemical Fibre Co Ltd, $667 for Jilin Chemical Fiber Co., and $518 for Yibin Hiest Fibre Limited Corporation and related exporters. Other producers would look a work of $1,071 per metric tonne, the notification stated.The determination comes days aft the DGTR initiated an anti-dumping probe into imports of ethyl chloroformate from China. The probe followed a ailment by home shaper Paushak, which alleged that the chemic was being sold successful India astatine “unfairly debased prices,” impacting section industry.

Also Read: India opens anti-dumping probe into ethyl chloroformate imports from ChinaThe DGTR’s findings indicated that dumped imports from China had risen significantly, undercutting home prices and causing worldly wounded to Indian producers.The duties, if approved by the Ministry of Finance, volition beryllium imposed connected yarn imports for a play of 5 years.Paushak's complaintIn its complaint, Paushak—a Gujarat-based institution that describes itself arsenic India’s largest specialty phosgene-based chemic manufacturer—alleged that imports from China had caused “material injury” to home producers.

The steadfast besides claimed to beryllium the country’s sole shaper of ethyl chloroformate, accounting for India’s full output of the chemical.The DGTR said it would analyse whether the merchandise was being dumped successful the Indian marketplace and whether anti-dumping duties were indispensable to offset the alleged wounded to the home industry.Ethyl chloroformateEthyl chloroformate is an integrated chemic intermediate wide utilized successful the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.

Given its value to these sectors, immoderate anti-dumping work could person wider downstream implications.If the DGTR’s recommendations are approved, they could rise input costs for drugmakers and agrochemical firms, adjacent arsenic they supply extortion to home producers.The body’s preliminary appraisal indicated that the dumping borderline was supra the de minimis threshold, suggesting important terms undercutting by Chinese exporters—one of the cardinal factors examined successful anti-dumping cases.The probe covered the play from October 2024 to September 2025.(With Reuters inputs)