Lok Sabha Question No. 2156 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-04
Subject: Anti-Dumping Investigations by GCC
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: Mohanbhai Kalyanji Kundariya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2156 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04 th MARCH, 2020

## ANTI-DUMPING INVESTIGATIONS BY GCC

## 2156.  SHRI MOHANBHAI KALYANJI KUNDARIYA:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ( वािण�य एवं उ�ोग मं�ी ) be pleased to state:

- (a) whether anti-dumping investigations on ceramic and allied products have been initiated by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the Government has received any representation from the industry requesting to take up the issue with GCC to review its anti- dumping investigations, which is impacting the domestic industry;
- (c) if so, the details of actions taken thereof; and
- (d) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## okf.kT; ,oa m|ksx ea=h ( Jh ih;w'k xks;y ) THE MINISTER OF  COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

- (a) to  (b): Yes  sir,  Bureau  of  Technical  Secretariat  for  Anti Injurious  Practices  in International  Trade  (TSAIP)  Gulf  Cooperation  Council  (GCC)  has initiated AntiDumping Investigation against the imports of ceramic/vitrified tiles under HS Code 6907 other than those of subheading 69073000 originating from China, Spain and India, on the basis of complaint received from Saudi ceramic industry in November 2018.  Department of Commerce received representation from the Indian ceramic industry  in  December  2018  regarding  methodology  adopted  by  TSAIP-GCC  to decide the dumping margins against import of ceramic tiles from India.
- (c) to (d): Upon receipt of the representation from the industry , a meeting was held with the representatives of the Indian ceramic industry on 18.12.2018 in which preliminary findings of the TSAIP-GCC report on dumping margins were discussed. The issue was also taken up with Saudi side during the workshop on strategic partnership with Saudi Centre for International Strategic Partnership (SCISP) in February, 2019 at Riyadh. After the issue of disclosure report and its translation from Arabic to English in November, 2019 by the law firm representing the Indian ceramic industry in TSAIPGCC, a  delegation  comprising  senior  officials  from  Directorate  General  of  Trade

Remedies (DGTR), Department of Commerce, Government of India and representatives  of  Indian  ceramic  industry  had  a  meeting  with  Director  General, TSAIP-GCC Secretariat on 26.11.2019 at Riyadh to discuss the issue in detail. In the meeting,  the  Indian  delegation  apprised  the  TSAIP-GCC  of  certain  facts  and anomalies reflected in the disclosure report issued in November 2019 and requested them to consider the same in the final report. Later, after the receipt of inputs vetted by  the  law  firm  defending  Indian  ceramic  industry's  case  in  TSAIP-GCC  on 6.12.2019,  the  issue  was  again  pursued  by  the  Department  of  Commerce, Government  of  India with  GCC  Authorities  through  the  Indian  Mission  in  Saudi Arabia. Further, this issue has been raised in  bilateral discussion with Saudi Arabia including  in  the  Ministerial  meetings,viz., at  Davos  on  the  sidelines  of  World Economic Forum in January 2020 and at New Delhi in February, 2020.

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