Process Plant and Machinery Association of India (PPMAI) said DIPP, under the Commerce Ministry, has also urged for granting more time before implementing the QC order.
DIPP in its letter on August 22, 2016 has said that the ministry should engage with the stakeholders and more time should be given to the firms to comply with the said order, PPMAI said in a statement.
Various value added segments of downstream capital goods industry have been writing to concerned ministries, including the Steel Ministry, over the "major anomalies in the Quality Control order", it added.
PPMAI said end user industry has been pointing out that BIS standard IS-6911 has errors, clearly showing that the standards are not ready to serve the needs of domestic industrial sector which buys stainless steel as per international standards.
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No one buys stainless steel as per BIS standards and no stainless steel producer in India manufactures as per BIS norms, it added.
"American Standards for Testing of Materials (ASTM) is considered mother of all standards and therefore stainless steel products as per ASTM and Euro standards should be allowed by the QC order along with BIS," PPMAI Secretary V P Ramachandran said.
"Steel Ministry informed us that Jindal Stainless took nine months for registration and despite the same the Ministry has given only 3 months for implementation of QC Order to international companies," he claimed.
Interestingly, BIS procedure needs at least six months for registration, while Steel Ministry gave 15 months to similar procedure for carbon steel, Ramachandran added.
"PPMAI demands that Steel Ministry should actually focus on stopping manufacturing and import of non-standard stainless steel products used for making utensils products by the leading local mills, including JSL and SALEM and others, as well as ban flood of such imports of non standard grades to protect the consumer interest," he said.