Anti-dumping duties protect domestic industry by allowing provisional and retrospective measures and circumvention checks on dumped imports.
Anti-dumping duties under the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 define anti-dumping duties, margin of dumping, export price and normal value, and set methods to determine dumping when direct comparisons are infeasible. The statute provides anti-circumvention and duty-absorption rules, permits provisional duties based on preliminary findings and retrospective duties in certain large cases, and allows conditional exemptions for consignments to export-oriented units and special economic zones.