Amid China’s decision to cut steel capacity, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that additional steps will be taken to protect domestic steel industry, which is going through a bad phase, in wake of cheap Chinese imported steel. According to Tomar, his ministry along with the Finance and Commerce ministries is working to bring out the steps that need to be taken for protecting domestic steel industry in the near future.
Tomar said that China is offering steel at half price compared to domestic industry in India. The way China is working, it appears that an economic war was on. Tomar further said that there was mounting concern among the domestic steel industry as China was trying to dump its cheap steel in India. In order to protest domestic industry, the government has enhanced import duty and imposed safeguard duty which is not sufficient to overcome the problem and hence the government is going to take additional steps in this regard.
He also said that state run steel production centres are been expanded and modernised and four new steel plants were being set up in Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka and added that the Centre is also going to set up 6 to 7 plastic parks across the country.
China’s decision to cut steel capacity is not a relief to India as they already have a massive production capacity of around 1.25 billion tonne, and produce 800 million tone. Until and unless the Centre takes some drastic measures of anti-dumping or safeguard duties or minimum import price, everything is likely to remain very gloomy.
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