Anti-dumping Duty on Bias Tyres Extended upto 7 October 2012 for Sunset Review

[Customs Notification No. 17 (ADD) dated 30^th March 2012]

Whereas, the designated authority vide notification No. 15/1/2009-DGAD dated the 3^rd August, 2011 , published in Part I, Section 1 of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated the 3^rd August, 2011, had initiated Sunset Review, in terms of sub-section (5) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and in pursuance of rule 23 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in the matter of continuation of anti-dumping duty on ‘new/unused pneumatic non radial bias tyres, tubes & flaps with or without tubes and/or flap of rubber, having nominal rim dia code above 16”used in buses and lorries/trucks’, falling under tariff items 4011 20 90, 4013 10 20 and 4012 90 49 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, China PR and Thailand imposed vide notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue),No. 88/2007-Customs dated 24^th July, 2007, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.502(E), dated the 24^th July, 2007, as superseded by notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 117/2010-Customs dated the 18^th November, 2010, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.917(E), dated the 18^th November, 2010, and has requested for extension of anti-dumping duty upto one more year from the date of initiation of the sunset review, in terms of sub-section (5) of Section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (5) of Section 9A of the said Act and in pursuance of rule 23 of the said rules, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 117/2010-Customs dated the 18^th November, 2010, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.917(E), dated the 18^th November, 2010, namely: -

In the said notification, at the end, the following shall be added, namely: -

“This notification shall remain in force up to and inclusive of the 07^th October, 2012, unless the notification is revoked earlier”.

[F.No. 354/107/2006-TRU (Pt.II)]