India has initiated anti-dumping investigations against Vitamin A Palmitate, used in pharmaceutical preparations, and acyclic alcohol, an industrial alcohol used to form esters for plasticising vinyl and other resins.
While anti-dumping investigations into Vitamin A Palmitate concern imports from the European Union, Singapore and Georgia, the acyclic alcohol probe concerns imports from Singapore, Brazil, Romania, Malaysia and South Africa, the directorate general of anti-dumping and alliedactivities in the commerce and industry ministry, said in two separate notifications. The notifications said there was sufficient evidence to suggest dumping and injury to the domestic industry.
Probe against the dumping of acyclic alcohol,. also referred to as Oxo Alcohol, was filed following the petitions filed by National Organic Chemical Industries (Nocil), Andhra Petrochemicals and Indu Nissan Oxo Chemical Industries.
Two Mumbai-based producers of Oxo Alcohol, Oswal Petrochemicals and Somaiya Organics, have stopped production along with Indu Nissan Oxo Chemical Industries, leaving Nocil and Andhra Petrochemicals as the sole producers of the product in the country. The period of investigation for the product has been fixed between April 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001. In case of Vitamin A Palmitate, Nicholas Piramal, the sole producer of the product in India, filed a petition before the DGAD alleging dumping.
The period of investigation in this case is between January 1, 2001 and September 30, 2001.
