Industry seeks anti-dumping duty on goods from China
13/04/2008 12:00
A delegation comprising L&T chairman A M Naik, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers director general Dilip Chenoy and Tata Motors managing director Ravi Kant, met finance minister P Chidambaram and demanded that such a measure was necessary to counter the slowdown in
They contended the domestic industry was hit by the appreciation of the rupee and has seen its cost competitiveness eroding due to the fixed rate of exchange for the Chinese currency against the dollar. Industry representatives argued this translated into an indirect subsidy of around 30% to manufacturers in
The meeting comes in the backdrop of the industry growing by just 5.3% in January this year compared to 11.6% last January. The growth rate for the first ten months of the last fiscal — April 2007 to January 2008 — was down to 8.7% compared to 11.2% registered in the same period in 2006-07.
What is especially alarming is the fact that the capital goods sector — which makes equipment that other sectors use — grew by only 2.1% in January over the same month last year after averaging more than 20% growth between April and December.
Consumer durables, which includes the automobile sector, registered a decline in output in January this year compared to the same month in 2007. With a negative rate of 3.1% for the month, this sector seems to be going through a slump. The ten-month growth rate for consumer durables is also a negative 1.7%.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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