The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has recently notified that countervailing duty already imposed for co-operative un-sampled exporters or producers may also be extended to such exporters or producers who were not originally investigated.
The CBIC has notified the amendment in the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Countervailing Duty on Subsidized Articles and for Determination of Injury) Amendment Rules, 2024 by which Section 23A was inserted.
Section 23A is in respect of subsidy margin for exporters not originally investigated. It reads as if a product is subject to countervailing duties, the designated authority shall carry out a periodical review for the purpose of determining individual subsidy margins for any exporters or producers in the exporting country in question who have not exported the product to India during the period of investigation, provided that these exporters or producers show that they are not related to any of the exporters or producers in the exporting country who are subject to the countervailing duties on the product.
The Central Government shall not levy countervailing duties under sub-section (1) of section 9 of the Act on imports from such exporters or producers during the period of review.
Provided that the Central Government may resort to provisional assessment and may ask a guarantee from the importer, if the designated authority so recommends, and if such a review results in a determination of subsidy in respect of such products or exporters, it may levy duty in such cases retrospectively from the date of the initiation of the review.
The countervailing duty already imposed for co-operative un-sampled exporters or producers may also be extended to such exporters or producers who were not originally investigated.
Notification No. 51/2024-Customs (N.T.)
23rd July, 2024