Govt plans safeguard duties to check iron, steel items import from China

03 May 2013 Evaluate

In order to protect domestic producers from a flood of imports from countries like China and Italy, the government has planned to impose safeguard duties on some iron and steel pipes, tubes. It has been found that increased imports of these products have affected the domestic producers and pursuant to which the Directorate General of Safeguards (DGS) under the Finance Ministry initiated an investigation on impact of large scale import of seamless pipes, tubes and hollow profiles of iron or non-alloy steel from countries such as China and Italy.

The DGS will investigate imports between 2009-10 and 2012-13 and will formulate safeguard duty for a period of four years. The imports of these items have increased from 307,581 tons in 2009-10 to 373,777 tons till 2012-13. Further in view of surging imports and loss of market share, the inventories with the domestic industry have also increased considerably to 5691 tons in 2009-10 to 14,170 tons in April-December 2012-13 fiscal.    

Meanwhile, the application for imposition of restrictive duties was jointly filed by Indian Seamless Metal Tubes and was supported by Maharashtra Seamless. 

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