Aluminum ingot exports to India from the UAE will not face any safeguard duty or compensation fees following the rejection of dumping charges, the UAE Ministry of Economy has announced.
 
It said the ministry's efforts have resulted in the conclusion of a safeguard investigation by Indian authorities into the UAE’s aluminum ingot exports to India without the imposition of any duties, a WAM report said.

Abdullah Sultan Al Shamsi, assistant undersecretary for industry in the Ministry of Economy, said the Indian government initiated its investigation on April 7 this year into imports of ‘not alloyed ingots of unwrought aluminum’ follwoing Indian aluminum producers’ claims of sustaining damages due to the increased imports of cheap aluminum ingots.

Upon the announcement of the investigation, the ministry held meetings with Emirates Global Aluminum (Dubal and Emal), the only producer of aluminum ingots in the UAE, and reviewed information and data that would help defend the position of UAE aluminum producers and provide legal and technical evidence to Indian authorities, he said.

The anti-dumping department in the ministry provided a number of technical and legal memoranda and supporting evidence to prove the claims do not adhere to legal requirements required by the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Safeguards.

The department’s document showed that Indian manufacturers’ complaints do not fulfill the legal requirements to call for safeguard measures, said Al Shamsi.

The ministry’s proactive efforts helped bring the investigation to a close without any safeguard duty imposed by the Indian government, he said.

Al Shamsi added that during this year the ministry was able to bring to end similar other investigations also. In April, the Taiwanese authorities ended a safeguard duty investigation into high density polyethylene (HDPE) imports from the UAE. During July, the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Egypt ended an investigation into polyethylene terephthalate (PET) imports from the UAE.

He confirmed that the ministry under the direct supervision and directives of Sultan Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, continues to step-up its efforts in dumping and safeguards cases that target exports from the UAE.

Al Shamsi stressed the ministry’s keenness to promote export of UAE products in regional and global markets while addressing challenges such as the anti-dumping investigations in certain countries that target some of the nation’s exports and products.

He pointed out that most of these investigations are unjustified and have no legal grounds, and only aim to obstruct access to the UAE’s high-quality and competitive products.

Al Shamsi also indicated that the ministry is currently employing all its efforts and energy to face the increasing number of investigations, anti-dumping fees, support and prevention that target and include the country’s exports of many industrial products, all of which are considered to be incorrect and fabrications intended at limiting the growth and high prevalence of these high-quality products in the global markets.

He stressed that the permanent termination of numerous investigations without imposing any duties against the country's exports constitutes an indication of the Emirati manufacturers’ compliance with the laws and regulatory measures of international markets.