Anti-dumping duty on polypropylene, carbon black

The country has also imposed the duty on imports of polypropylene, used as an engineering plastic, from Oman, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. On carbon black, the duty was ranged between $ 0.078 per kg and $ 0.195 per kg, while on polypropylene the duty was ranged between $44.43 per metric tonne and $1033.65 metric tonne, the Central Board of Customs and Excise said in its notification.

The countries have been exporting the two products — carbon black and polypropylene — to India below their normal value, it said.

The two products on which duties were imposed were being dumped into India below their normal value, it added.

The anti-dumping duty on the products would be effective up to January 29, 2010.