Government Imposes Definitive Anti-Dumping Duty on Low Ash Metallurgical Coke Imports

The Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, through Notification No. 18/2026-Customs (ADD) dated 27 July 2026, has imposed definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of Low Ash Metallurgical Coke (ash content below 18%) falling under tariff items 2704 00 10, 2704 00 20, 2704 00 30 and 2704 00 90, originating in or exported from Australia, China PR, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan and Russia. The notification follows the Designated Authority’s preliminary findings dated 14 November 2025, provisional duty imposed by Notification No. 41/2025-Customs (ADD) dated 31 December 2025, and final findings dated 28 April 2026 concluding that the subject goods were exported at dumped prices, the domestic industry suffered material injury, and such injury was caused by dumped imports. The notification specifies country-wise anti-dumping duty rates in USD per metric tonne, provides exemptions for specified categories of imports subject to prescribed conditions, states that the duty will remain effective for five years from the date of imposition of the provisional anti-dumping duty unless revoked, amended or superseded earlier, and clarifies that no duty shall be levied for the period between the lapse of the provisional duty and the day preceding publication of this notification.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)

Notification No. 18/2026-Customs (ADD) | Dated: 27th July, 2026

G.S.R. 667(E).— Whereas, in the matter of ‘Low Ash Metallurgical Coke’ (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under tariff items 2704 00 10, 2704 00 20, 2704 00 30 and 2704 00 90 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the Customs Tariff Act), originating in or exported from Australia, China PR, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan and Russia (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority vide its preliminary findings F. No. 6/03/2025-DGTR, dated the 14^th November, 2025, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 14^th November, 2025, had recommended imposition of provisional anti-dumping duty on the imports of subject goods, originating in, or exported from the subject countries;

And whereas, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the designated authority, the Central Government had imposed provisional anti-dumping duty on the subject goods vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 41/2025-Customs (ADD), dated the 31^st December, 2025 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 944(E), dated the 31^st December, 2025;

And whereas, the designated authority in its final findings vide notification F. No. 6/03/2025-DGTR dated 28^th April, 2026, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 28^th April, 2026 has concluded that-

i. the product under consideration has been exported to India from the subject countries at dumped prices;

ii. the domestic industry has suffered material injury;

iii. material injury has been caused by the dumped imports of the subject goods from the subject countries,

and has recommended imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the subject goods, originating in, or exported from the subject countries and imported into India, in order to remove injury to the domestic industry.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (5) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act read with rules 18 and 20 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government, after considering the aforesaid final findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the subject goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the following Table, falling under the Tariff items of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), exported from the countries as specified in the corresponding entry in column (5), produced by the producers as specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty equal to the amount indicated in the corresponding entry in column (7), in the currency as specified in the corresponding entry in column (9) and as per unit of measurement as specified in the corresponding entry in column (8) of the said Table, namely:-

TABLE

* Low Ash Metallurgical Coke that is, Metallurgical Coke having ash content below 18%

Note: Customs classification is only indicative, and the determination of anti-dumping duty shall be made as per the description of the product under consideration.

2. Nothing contained in this notification shall apply to the following subject goods, namely:-

a. ultra-low phosphorous metallurgical coke having phosphorous content up to 0.030 per cent with size upto 30 mm with 5 per cent size tolerance, imported by an actual user for use in ferroalloy manufacturing, subject to the importer, at the time of import, furnishing an undertaking to the Deputy Commissioner of Customs or the Assistant Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, to pay the anti-dumping duty otherwise leviable under this notification, together with applicable interest, in the event of failure to use the imported goods for the specified purpose;

b. semi-coke or soft coke;

c. Low Ash Metallurgical Coke of size 20-40 mm (with a mean size of approximately 30 mm ± 2 mm), imported by an actual user for use in blast furnaces up to 130 cubic metres for pig iron manufacturing, subject to the importer, at the time of import,

i. furnishing an undertaking to the Deputy Commissioner of Customs or the Assistant Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, to pay the anti-dumping duty otherwise leviable under this notification, together with applicable interest, in the event of failure to use the imported goods for the specified purpose; and

ii. producing a valid certificate issued by the concerned State Pollution Control Board or the Central Pollution Control Board, as applicable, certifying the capacity of the blast furnace in which the imported goods are intended to be used.

3. The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective for a period of five years from the date of imposition of the provisional anti-dumping duty, unless revoked, amended or superseded earlier, and shall be payable in Indian currency:

Provided that the said anti-dumping duty shall not be levied for the period commencing from the date of the lapse of the provisional anti-dumping duty, up to the preceding day of the publication of this notification in the Official Gazette.

Explanation– For the purposes of this notification, rate of exchange applicable for the purposes of calculation of the anti-dumping duty shall be the rate which is specified in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), issued from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), and the relevant date for the determination of the rate of exchange shall be the date of presentation of the bill of entry under section 46 of the said Customs Act.

[F. No. CBIC-190349/76/2025-TRU]
DHEERAJ SHARMA, Under Secy.