The Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, issued Notification No. 24/2025-Customs (ADD) on July 15, 2025, concerning anti-dumping duties on Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Blends, specifically excluding 407 and 410, imported from China PR. This notification addresses a procedural amendment related to a previously imposed anti-dumping duty. The original duty was established following an investigation by the designated authority, which concluded that HFC blends from China PR were being dumped into India, causing material injury to the domestic industry. These findings led to the imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty via Notification No. 76/2021-Customs (ADD) on December 22, 2021.
The current notification primarily formalizes a name change for one of the implicated exporters. Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co. Ltd requested the designated authority to amend its name to Shandong Dongyue Refrigerants Co. Ltd in the original final findings. After reviewing this request, the designated authority determined that this was solely a name change and did not alter the fundamental nature of the business. Consequently, the authority recommended amending the exporter’s name in the previous findings. Acting on this recommendation, the Central Government has updated Notification No. 76/2021-Customs (ADD). Specifically, in the table of the said notification, for serial number 3, the name “Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co. Ltd” has been replaced with “Shandong Dongyue Refrigerants Co. Ltd.” This amendment, therefore, does not introduce new duties or change the existing anti-dumping measures, but rather corrects an exporter’s official designation within the regulatory framework.
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 24/2025-Customs (ADD) | Dated: 15th July, 2025
G.S.R. 471(E).— Whereas, in the matter of “Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Blends. All blends other than 407 and 410 are excluded” (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), originating in, or exported from China PR (hereinafter referred to as the subject country) falling under tariff item 3824 78 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the Customs Tariff Act), and imported into India, the designated authority in its final findings, issued vide Notification number 06/34/2020-DGTR, dated the 27th September, 2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, section 1, dated the 27th September, 2021,had come to the conclusion that-
(i) the product under consideration has been exported at a price below normal value, thus resulting in dumping;
(ii) the domestic industry has suffered material injury;
(iii) there is causal link between dumping of product under consideration and injury to the domestic industry,
and had recommended imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty imports the subject goods, originating in, or exported from the subject country and imported into India, in order to remove injury to the domestic industry;
And whereas, on the basis of the aforesaid final findings of the designated authority, the Central Government had imposed the anti-dumping duty on the subject goods, vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 76/2021-Customs (ADD), dated the 22nd December, 2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 876(E), dated the 22nd December, 2021;
And whereas, Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co. Ltd requested the designated authority for changing the name of exporter company from “Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co. Ltd” to “Shandong Dongyue Refrigerants Co. Ltd” in its final findings vide notification number 06/34/2020-DGTR, dated the 27th September, 2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, section 1, dated the 27th September, 2021;
And whereas, the designated authority, vide amendment notification number 7/15/2024-DGTR dated the 3rd April,2025, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, section 1, dated the 3rd April,2025, has come to the conclusion that the request falls within the category of name change only and there is no change in the basic nature of the business and recommended that the name of the exporter viz. “Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co. Ltd ”, be amended to “Shandong Dongyue Refrigerants Co. Ltd” in its final findings issued vide notification number 6/34/2020-DGTR, dated the 27th September, 2021;
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 amendments to the final findings of the designated authority, hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 76/2021-Customs (ADD), dated the 22nd December, 2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 876(E), dated the 22nd December, 2021, namely:-
In the said notification, in the Table, against serial number 3, in column (6), for the words “Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co. Ltd”, the words “Shandong Dongyue Refrigerants Co. Ltd” shall be substituted.
[F. No. CBIC-190349/33/2025-TRU Section-CBEC]
DHEERAJ SHARMA, Under Secy.
