Product description – Soluble salt, Double Charge, GVT and PGVT Porcelain/Vitrified Tiles with less than 3% water absorption of all sizes. The product under consideration excludes micro-crystal tiles, full body tiles and thin panels below 5 mm thickness.

HS Code – 6907.

Uses – It is used for covering floors and walls in buildings, homes, restaurants, cinema halls, airports, swimming pools, railway stations etc.

Country involved – China PR.

Applicants – Gujarat Granito Manufacturers Association, Indian Council for Ceramic Tiles and Sanitaryware, Morbi Ceramics Association and Sabarkantha District Ceramics Association

Date of imposition of duty – 14^th June 2017. The present duties are applicable till 28^th February 2022.

Date of Initiation – 22^nd January 2021.

Period of Investigation – 1^st April 2019 to 30^th September 2020.

Injury Period– 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and the period of investigation.

Margin and proposed duty –

Country	Producers	Dumping Margin (Range)	Injury Margin (Range)	Duty (USD/SQM)
China PR	Foshan Chancheng Jinyi Ceramics Co., Ltd. And Xin Xing Zhisheng Ceramics Co., Ltd.	70-80	Negative	Nil
China PR	Non-cooperative/ residual exporters	110-120	Negative	1.87

Key Findings –

1. The application was filed by four associations. All the domestic producers are part of at least one of the four associations.
2. The investigation was sou moto initiated by the Authority since the domestic producers who will become a part of the domestic industry were not identifiable based on application filed by the associations.
3. Alternative procedures to determine normal value can be used only when the Authority has exhausted the first method, that is, price or constructed value in market economy third country.
4. USA has been considered as an appropriate surrogate country. The normal value has been determined based on prices in the market economy third country. The Authority has determined PCN-wise normal value based on exports of domestic producers to USA.
5. No reliance can be placed on performance of an individual producer as Injury analysis is undertaken based on performance of domestic industry as a whole.  
6. Since PCN were not identifiable in the DGCI&S data, the Authority has evaluated price undercutting based on PCN-wise data filed by the exporter.
7. The product under consideration has been imported at varying prices, the price even in respect of same PCN difference was quite significant.
8. The likelihood of dumping and injury in the absence of duties is evident from continuation of dumping despite duties in force, dumping by the producers from the subject country in the past, dumping in countries other than India, loss of market due to imposition of trade remedial measures in 8 jurisdictions, significant surplus capacities in the subject country, capacity expansion despite surplus capacities and reduction in imports post imposition of anti-dumping duty.
9. The Indian industry has grown during the tenure of the anti-dumping duty. However, the majority of the producers are in the MSME sector and vulnerable due to COVID-19 pandemic.
10. Since the capacity in India is much more than the demand, the product under consideration will be available to the consumers in the market.
11. There is insignificant impact of continuation of anti-dumping duty on the price paid by the consumers.