The Government has extended by five years the anti-dumping duty imposed on import of chemical compound PTFE, used as a non-stick coating for pans and other cookware, to safeguard the domestic industry. The revenue department has issued a notification imposing $2,637 per tonne as anti-dumping duty on imports of polytetraflouroethylene (PTFE) from China. The duty was first imposed for five years in August 2011 and extended by one year last August.
A review of the anti-dumping duty has concluded that ‘there is continued dumping of the product concerned from China, both in absolute terms and in relation to production and consumption in India causing injury to the domestic industry’, the department said. It found the imports "significantly undercutting" the prices of the domestic industry.Further, the imports are found to be suppressing and depressing the domestic prices.