Even though India accounts for only one percent of global exports, its issubject to 4% of the total anti-dumping actions initiated across the world.According to the latest data available with the government, outof the 2,938 anti-dumping actions initiated between January 1995 and June, 2006, India faced 124 investigations.An anti-dumping investigation is initiated when the domestic industrycomplains to the government about injury being caused to it because ofcheap imports. The government then initiates a probe, based on the factssubmitted by the domestic industry to the imported product. If it is foundthat the imported product is causing injury to the domestic industry, thegovernment can initiate antidumping measures against it, which includesimposing of extra duty.At the recent trade policy review meeting on India at the World TradeOrganisation headquarters in Geneva, the country pointed out that of the124 anti-dumping investigations against it, measures were introduced in 69cases, which lead to considerable loss of trade.According to Ajay Sahai, director general, Federation of IndianExporters, the range of anti-dumping duty on Indian exports range from 5% to 20%. "The European Union tops the list with around 11anti-dumping cases against Indian exports, followed by the United States, South Africa and Canada," he added.India has also been an active user of anti dumping measures and latestfigures point out towards more than 440 investigations, which were launched by the country. "We should not go by numbers as the impact of the anti dumping measures initiated against India is much higher than the ones initiated by India," said Neeraj Varshney, an anti-dumping expert.
