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This notification presents the final finding of an anti-dumping investigation initiated to determine the existence, degree, and effect of alleged dumping of Polyvinyl Chloride Suspension Resins originating in or exported from China PR, Indonesia, Japan, Korea RP, Taiwan, Thailand, and United States of America.

Detailed Summary

This Final Finding Notification, issued by the Directorate General of Trade Remedies under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Commerce) on August 14, 2025 (Case No. AD-OI-30/2023), concerns an anti-dumping investigation into imports of 'Polyvinyl Chloride Suspension Resins'. The investigation targets imports originating in or exported from China PR, Indonesia, Japan, Korea RP, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States of America. Initiated based on an application by Chemplast Cuddalore Private Limited, DCM Shriram Limited, and DCW Limited, the process followed the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, and the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-Dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995. A public notice, Notification No. 6/33/2023-DGTR dated March 26, 2024, formally initiated the investigation under Section 9A of the Act and Rule 5 of the Rules. The Authority followed established procedures including notifying Embassies, issuing public notices, and sending questionnaires to known producers/exporters and importers/users from the subject countries. Notably, Formosa Industries (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. was the only producer from China to claim market economy treatment during the investigation.

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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART I—Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 215] NEW DELHI, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2025/SHRAVANA 26, 1947 CG-DL-E-22082025-265610 5486 GI/2025 (1) THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC.1] MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (Department of Commerce ) (DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF TRADE REMEDIES) NOTIFICATION FINAL FINDING New Delhi, the 14th August, 2025 Case No. AD-OI-30/2023 Subject: Anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of “Polyvinyl Chloride Suspension Resins" originating in or exported from China PR, Indonesia, Japan, Korea RP, Taiwan, Thailand and United States of America. F. No. 6/33/2023-DGTR.—Having regard to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, as amended from time to time (hereinafter also referred to as the Act), and the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-Dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, as amended from time to time, (hereinafter also referred to as the Anti-Dumping Rules or the Rules) thereof; A. BACKGROUND OF THE CASE 1. Chemplast Cuddalore Private Limited, DCM Shriram Limited and DCW Limited (hereinafter also referred to as the “Applicants”) filed an application before the Designated Authority (hereinafter also referred to as the “Authority”), in accordance with the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 as amended from time to time (hereinafter also referred as the “Act”) and the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment, and Collection of Anti Dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, as amended from time to time (hereinafter referred to as the “Rules” or “Anti-Dumping Rules”), for initiation of an anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of “Polyvinyl Chloride Suspension Resins” (hereinafter also referred to as the “product under consideration” or the “subject goods”), originating in or exported from China PR, Indonesia, Japan, Korea RP, Taiwan, Thailand and United States of America (hereinafter also referred to as the “subject countries”). 2. The Authority, on the basis of prima facie evidence submitted by the applicants, issued a public notice vide Notification No. 6/33/2023-DGTR dated 26th March 2024, published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary, initiating the subject investigation in accordance with Section 9A of the Act read with Rule 5 of the Rules to determine existence, degree and effect of the alleged dumping of the subject goods, originating in or exported from the subject countries, and to recommend the amount of anti-dumping duty, which if levied, would be adequate to remove the alleged injury to the Domestic Industry. B. PROCEDURE 3. The procedure described below has been followed with regard to the investigation: a. The Authority notified the Embassies of the subject countries in India about the receipt of the present anti-dumping application before proceeding to initiate the investigation in accordance with Rule 5(5) of the Anti-Dumping Rules and the Free Trade Agreements with various members of the WTO. b. The Authority issued a public notice dated 26th March 2024 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, initiating anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of the subject goods from the subject countries. c. The Authority sent a copy of the initiation notification along with questionnaires to the Embassies of the subject countries in India, known producers/exporters from the subject countries, known importers/users and the domestic industry as well as other domestic producers as per the email addresses made available by the applicants and requested them to make their views known, in writing, within the prescribed time limit. d. The Authority provided a copy of the non-confidential version of the application to the Embassies of the subject countries in India, the known producers/exporters, importers and users in accordance with Rule 6(3) of the Rules. e. The Embassies of the subject countries in India were also requested to advise the exporters/producers from their countries to respond to the questionnaire within the prescribed time limit. A copy of the letter and questionnaire sent to the producers/exporters was also sent to them along with the details of the known producers/exporters from the subject countries. f. The Authority sent exporter's questionnaires to the following known producers/exporters in the subject countries in accordance with Rule 6(4) of the Rules: 1. China Haohua Chemical (Group) Corporation 2. Chipping Xinfa PVC Company Limited 3. Farmosa Plastics Corporation 4. Hubein Yinhua Group Company Limited 5. Inner Mongolia Junzheng Chemical Industry Company Limited 6. Inner Mongolia Sanlian Chemical Corporation Limited 7. JM Eagle Corporation 8. JNC Corporation 9. Kaneka Corporation 10. Kingfa Sci. & Technology Company Limited 11. LG Dagu Chemical Company Limited 12. Mega Compound Company Limited 13. Ningxia Jinyuyuan Energy Chemistry Company Limited 14. Ningxia Yinglite Chemicals Company Limited 15. Ocean Plastics Company Limited 16. Ordos Zunzheng Energy & Chemical Industry Company Limited THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC.1] 17. Oxy Vinyl LP 18. Oxychem 19. Qingdao Haijing Chemcial (Group) Company Limited 20. Qingdoa Haiwan Chemical Company Limited 21. SAR Overseas Limited 22. SCG Chemicals Company Limited 23. Shandong Haihua Chlor-Alkali Resin Company Limited 24. Shandong Xinfa Import & Export Company 25. Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Company Limited 26. Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd 27. Shintech Inc. 28. Sinopec Group 29. Sinopec Qilu Company 30. Suzhou Huasu Plastics Company Limited 31. Tianjin Dagu Chemical Company Limited 32. Tianjin LG Bohai Chemical Company 33. Visolit 34. Viynthai Public Co., Ltd. 35. Westlake USA Inc. 36. Xinjiang Shengxiong Chlor-Alkali Company Limited 37. Xinjiang Shihezi Zhongfa Chemcial Company Limited 38. Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Company Limited 39. Yibin Tianyuan Group Limited 40. Yichang Yihua Pacific Cogen Company Limited 41. Zhong Tai International Development (HK) Limited g. The following producers / exporters filed response to the exporters’ questionnaire issued by the Authority. 1. AGC Vinythai Public Limited Company 2. Canko Marketing 3. CGPC Polymer Corporation 4. Chemdo Group Company Limited 5. Cheongfuli (Hongkong) Company Limited 6. China General Plastics Corporation 7. China Salt Chemical International Trading Co. Ltd. 8. Chiping Xinfa Huaxing Chemical Co., Ltd 9. Chiping Xinfa Polyvinyl Chloride Co., Ltd 10. CNSIG Jilantai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd 11. Cosmoss Vu Limited 12. Formosa Industries (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. 13. Formosa Plastics Corporation 14. GCM Polymer Trading DMCC Company Limited 15. Grand Dignity For Wanhua 16. Grand Dignity Industrial Co. Ltd. 17. Guangxi Huayi Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd. THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC.1] 18. Hanwa Corporation 19. Henan Pulite Import And Export Trade Co.,Limited 20. Inner Mongolia Chemical Industry Company Ltd. 21. Inner Mongolia Erdos Electric Power and Metallurgy Group Co., Ltd. 22. Inner Mongolia Junzheng Chemical Industry Company Ltd. 23. ITOCHU (Thailand) Ltd. 24. ITOCHU Corporation 25. Itochu Plastics Pte., Ltd. 26. IVICT (Singapore) Pte. Ltd 27. Jiali Bio Group (Qingdao) Limited 28. Joc International Technical Engineering Co., Ltd. 29. Kaneka Corporation 30. Kanematsu Corporation 31. LG Chem, Ltd. 32. Marubeni Corporation 33. Mitsubishi Corporation 34. Mitsui & Co., Ltd 35. Ordos Junzheng Energy & Chemical Industry Co., Ltd 36. PT. Asahimas Chemical 37. PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited 38. Qingdao Haiwan Chemical Co. Ltd. 39. SAR Overseas Limited 40. Shaanxi Beiyuan Chemical Industry Group Co 41. Shandong Xinfa Import & Export Co., Ltd 42. Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd. 43. Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd 44. Simosa International Co. Ltd. 45. Sojitz Asia Pte Limited 46. Stavian Chemical JSC 47. Sunshine International Pvt Ltd 48. Taiyo Vinyl Corporation 49. Texpo International Limited 50. Thai Plastics and Chemicals Plc. 51. Thai Polyethylene Co. Ltd 52. Tianjin Bohua Chemical Developments 53. Tianjin Lg Bohai Chemical. Co. Ltd 54. Tokuyama Corporation 55. Tokuyama Sekisui Co. Ltd 56. Tosoh Nikkemi Corporation 57. TS Corporation 58. Tun Wa Industrial Co. Ltd. 59. United Raw Material Pte. Ltd. 60. Wanhua Chemical (Fujian) Co., Ltd. 61. Wanhua Chemical (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC.1] 62. Wanhua Petrochemical (Yantai) Co., Ltd. 63. Xinjiang Shengxiong Chlor-Alkali Co., Ltd 64. Xinjiang Zhongtai Import & Export Co., Ltd 65. Yibin Haifeng Herui Co. Ltd. 66. Yibin Tianyuan Group Co. Ltd. 67. Yibin Tianyuan Materials Industry Group Ltd. 68. Yue Xiu Textiles Co., Ltd 69. Zhong Tai International Development (HK) Limited h. Formosa Industries (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. has filed a response to supplementary questionnaire issued by the Authority and has claimed that it should be treated as operating in market economy conditions. No other producer from China has claimed market economy treatment. i. The Authority sent importers’ questionnaire and users’ questionnaire to the following known importers/users of the subject goods in India calling for necessary information in accordance with Rule 6(4) of the Rules: 1. Aasu Chempoplast Private Limited 2. ABM International Limited 3. Aditya Industries 4. Amisha Vinyls Private Limited 5. Apollo Pipes Limited 6. Associated Capsules Limited 7. AVI Global Plast Private Limited 8. Avon Plastics Group 9. Caprihans India Limited 10. Chaitanya Impex Private Limited 11. Cooldeck Aqua Solutions Private Limited 12. Cosmos Corporation 13. D.R. Polymers Private Limited 14. Deluxe Kaaran Import Private Limited 15. Dhabriya Agglomerates Private Limited 16. Diamond Pipes & Tubes Private Limited 17. Dutron Plastics Private Limited 18. Fine Flow Plastic

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