Product description – The product under consideration is jute products comprising jute yarn/twine (single, multiple folded or cabled), jute sacking bags and cloth, and jute hessian bags and fabrics, including the subject goods when imported as jute products containing mineral oil or vegetable oil and as diversified jute products.

HS Code – 5307, 5310, 6305, and 5607.

Uses – Broad usages include packaging, geotextiles, protection of rooting plants, making of cloths, bags, wrapping, boot and shoe lining, fuse yarns, aprons, canal and motor linings, ropes, strings, upholstery foundation, curtains and furnishing fabrics etc. Jute can also be mixed with wool for fine yarn and fabric production.

Countries Involved – Bangladesh and Nepal

Applicants – M/s Indian Jute Mills Association (IJMA) and M/s A.P. Mesta Twine Mills Association (AJMA)

Date of initiation – 29^th September 2025

Period of investigation – 1^st April 2024 to 31^st March 2025

Injury Period – April 2021 to March 2022, April 2022 to March 2023, April 2023 to March 2024 and the POI.

Margins and recommended duties –

Key Findings –

• Producers/exporters of the subject goods in Bangladesh have received countervailable subsidies under cash incentive on export of jute goods programme, which is a prohibited export subsidy, and under preferential income tax treatment of the jute industry programme.
• Producers/exporters in Nepal have received countervailable subsidies under cash grants on export of jute products programme, which is a prohibited export subsidy, and under tax subsidies for jute industries programm.
• The subsidy margins determined for the producers/exporters from each of the subject countries are above the de minimis level.
• The domestic industry has suffered material injury that has been caused by the subsidised imports from the subject countries.
• The subject goods are already subject to anti-dumping duty, to ensure that the same situation of export subsidisation is not compensated twice, the component of the countervailing duty attributable to the export contingent programmes is to be collected only to the extent that it exceeds the anti-dumping duty leviable on the same consignment, the component attributable to the tax concessions being collected in full.
• The imposition of countervailing duty is in the public interest, having regard to the interests of the domestic producers, the workers and the raw jute farmers dependent on the industry, the absence of any participation by importers or users, and the capacity of the Indian industry to meet the demand in the country