Faisalabad—Proper awareness can help avoid levy of anti dumping (AD) duties on Pakistani textile products by various countries, said Dr Imran Zia Director National Tariff Commission (NTC). He was addressing a training session for stakeholders at Pakistan Textile Exporters Association’s (PTEA) auditorium here.

Dr Imran reviewed and discussed in detail the situations in which AD duties were imposed on Pakistani textile products. He also briefed the managerial staff of the textile exporters about “SUNSET” reviews of 33 per cent AD duty imposed by Peru in Latin America. He said that AD duty was imposed by different countries against Pakistani Textiles at different times in the past.

Giving examples, he said that European Union (EU) imposed AD duty on Pakistani bed linen twice. For the first time, it was imposed for a period of five years in 1996 and again from 2004 to 2009. Similarly South Africa (SA) imposed duty of 43 pee cent on bed sheet imports from Pakistan. He emphasised that AD duty has been imposed because of the non compliance of the exporters about questionnaire of Peru authorities.

He stressed that if the exporters co-operated and furnished complete information to the country going to impose AD duty well in time, the likelihood of removal and avoidance of this duty was greater. Elaborating, he said that Peru authorities because of non availability of information and lack of feedback from Pakistani exporters surmised the duty of $1.14 basing on incorrect information downloaded from website.

Therefore the need for serious approach and compliance to the questionnaires was imperative. He also emphasised on proper application and compliance of the rules and regulations of AD laws, which help avoided AD duty in many cases. Naseer Ahmed Director Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) presided over this training session.—Agencies

Source: pakobserver.net