 "From tomorrow, China to impose anti-dumping duty on insecticide cypermethrin it imports from India")
China’s commerce ministry on Tuesday announced that it will anti-dumping measures on India for the imports of cypermethrin from January 8.
The move came after a preliminary investigation on anti-dumping suggested that the imports of cypermethrin were causing substantial damage to the domestic industry.
Importers are obligated to make deposits with Chinese customs when importing products under investigation, based on dumping margins ranging from 50 to 170 per cent, according to a statement by China’s Ministry of Commerce.
What is cypermethrin?
Cypermethrin is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide widely used in agriculture and household pest control. It effectively targets a broad spectrum of pests, including ants, cockroaches, and various agricultural insects. Cypermethrin acts as a neurotoxin in insects, disrupting their nervous system upon contact or ingestion.
China’s other anti-dumping measures
Beijing is not new to imposing anti-dumping measures. Last year, China launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of pork products from the European Union.
The probe is in response to an application submitted on behalf of domestic producers, Beijing said and comes in the face of mounting trade tensions between China and the EU.
“The Ministry of Commerce has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imports of relevant pork and pig by-products originating from the European Union,” the ministry said in a statement.
China launched an anti-dumping investigation in January into brandy imported from the EU in a move seen as targeting France, which had pushed for the commission’s probe.
It also in May launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of a key engineering chemical from the European Union, the United States, Taiwan and Japan.
With inputs from agencies
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