India may impose up to $4.83 per kg anti-dumping duty on Chinese flax yarn

India may impose anti-dumping duty of up to $4.83 per kg on a certain kind of flax yarn, used in apparel industry, from China for five years with a view to guard domestic players from cheap imports from the neighbouring country.

The commerce ministry's investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has conducted a probe of alleged dumping of 'flax yarn of below 70 lea count' from China, following a complaint from Jaya Shree Textiles unit of Grasim Industries.

In its final findings of the probe, the DGTR has concluded that due to dumped imports, the domestic industry has suffered material injury.

"The authority considers it necessary to recommend imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on the imports... for five years," the DGTR has said in a notification.