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India has imposed anti-dumping duty on Chinese products

WHAT IS DUMPING

• In international trade practise, dumping happens when a country or a firm exports an item at a price lower than the price of that product in its domestic market.
• Dumping impacts the price of that product in the importing country, hitting margins and profits of local manufacturing firms.

WHAT IS ANTI-DUMPING DUTY

• Anti-dumping duties are levied on goods that are imported at a substantially low price in the originating or exporting country.
• According to global trade norms, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) regime, a country is allowed to impose tariffs on such dumped products to provide a level-playing field to domestic manufacturers.

How is it different from Countervailing Duties

• Anti-dumping duty is different from countervailing duty. The latter is imposed in order to counter the negative impact of import subsidies to protect domestic producers.
• Countervailing Duties (CVDs) are tariffs levied on imported goods to offset subsidies made to producers of these goods in the exporting country.
• CVDs are meant to level the playing field between domestic producers of a product and foreign producers of the same product who can afford to sell it at a lower price because of the subsidy they receive from their government.