It’s been already a tough time for Ceramic Industry and other manufacturing industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic as almost all the units were shut for at least 2 months completely. Although Morbi’s ceramic cluster and its association were hoping to get some relief due to this where people were expecting to delay Anty-dumping duty from UAE as China was also facing some issue due to lockdown.
However, it’s been finalized and from today itself the Anti-dumping duty will be applied to all the Indian Ceramic Units exporting in the UAE.
This will be big blow as majority of the Morbi’s ceramic units were exporting to the gulf countries. Even some of them were completely dependent on UAE market and this will make them worry & make almost impossible to export to gulf countries due to the new charges.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on it’s order dated back to April 20, had imposed anti-dumping duty ranging from 40% to 100% on Indian Ceramic Units and this will make really tough road ahead for those who were exporting to these Gulf Countries like Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates & Kuwait.
Although Morbi’s ceramic units can focus on Europe & America market but due to Coronavirus those markets are totally down and it will take long time to get back to normal.
It will be interesting to see how and when the situation gets normal and manufacturing units in Morbi’s ceramic cluster gets going.
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