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Steelmakers Seek Immediate Implementation of Customs Duty Hike.


Date: 16-03-2015
Subject: Steelmakers Seek Immediate Implementation of Customs Duty Hike
New Delhi: With imports set to hit a record high in the current fiscal year, steelmakers on Sunday urged the government to bring the provisioned customs duty hike in the Budget into effect immediately to bail them out of the deepening crisis.

"Some secondary steel producers have already resorted to production cut and instead of making on their own, they have now ventured into trading importing from China and other countries," Jayant Acharya, director (commercial) at JSW Steel, told PTI.

Facing a host of other problems such as higher production cost due to dearer raw materials and inflated interest rates, major producers are also left with no money to further invest, which is tantamount to government's 'Make in India' programme.

"Government should implement the enabling budgetary provision for raising the customs duty as soon as possible to give steel-makers a little elbowroom," Mr Acharya said.

He also said that some non-tariff barriers to be put in place to safeguard against the abnormal surge in imports.

Paying heed to steelmakers' plea, the Budget has created a possibility of raising import duty for steels to 15 per cent from 10 per cent now, aimed at protecting the homegrown firms from rising imports. But, it has been kept as an enabling provision for suitable imposition.

Meanwhile, imports have jumped over 67 per cent during April-February period of current fiscal year to 8.39 million tonnes (MT) while exports have declined 11 per cent to 4.8 MT. Total imports might go to around 10 MT by the end of March, he said.

"At 8.39 MT now, I think India's steel imports will hit a record high in current year," said A S Firoz, chief economist of Joint Plant Committee, a unit under the Steel Ministry. India had imported 5.44 MT steel during the entire last fiscal year.

"If the current international prices remain so low, then obviously there will be more imports and it will increasingly be difficult for domestic firms to do exports," Mr Firoz added.

He said the basic reason for growing imports and dipping exports is that Indian steelmakers are unable to compete in international market due to input costs and other "external hurdles" such as infrastructure and efficient labour among others.

An official from a private sector steelmaker said even as NMDC has reduced the price for iron ore, it has to do more to make them compatible with the prevailing international price.

NMDC has cut prices of the raw material for consecutive two months, but the official described the move as "it's too little, too late".

Apart from Tata Steel and SAIL, most Indian steelmakers do not have captive mines. Even Tata Steel had to resort to imports for the first time in its 100-year history as iron ore was not adequately available in the country.

Source : profit.ndtv.com

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