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India has imposed a three-year import tariff of betwixt 11% and 12% connected some alloy products, according to a concern ministry bid published connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025), arsenic the authorities aims to curb inexpensive shipments from China.
The levy, locally known arsenic a safeguard duty, volition beryllium imposed astatine 12% successful the first twelvemonth followed by 11.5% successful the 2nd twelvemonth and past 11% successful the 3rd year.
The measure, which was published connected the authoritative authorities gazette, excludes imports from definite processing countries, though China, Vietnam, and Nepal volition beryllium taxable to the levy. It besides will not use to specialty alloy products specified arsenic stainless steel.
The national alloy ministry has repeatedly said it does not privation the home alloy manufacture to look wounded owed to cheap imports and sub-standard products.
The authorities imposed a impermanent 200-day tariff of 12% successful April.
The Directorate General of Trade Remedies recommended the three-year work aft uncovering a “recent, sudden, crisp and important summation successful imports ... causing and threatening to origin superior wounded to the home industry”, the bid said.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s import tariffs connected alloy person fuelled a wave of commercialized friction implicit Chinese steel, with countries including South Korea and Vietnam imposing anti-dumping levies earlier this year.
