Anti-dumping against India cases likely to increase

By agencies   |   Friday, 15 April 2005, 19:30 IST
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MUMBAI:Anti-Dumping cases involving India are likely to increase and Indian exporters and manufacturers would be well advised to prepare for battle, a high level U.S. official said. Caroyl Miller, Deputy Textile Negotiator, Office of the United States, said at a seminar in Mumbai that the U.S. had undergone a "high level of structural adjustments during the period of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), which saw an increased number of plant closures and the loss of employment to 60 percent of those employed in the U.S. textiles and apparel industry." A number of studies, she said, had predicted that with the phase-out of quotas, China would become the supplier of choice. It has become just that and its share of the U.S. imports has grown substantially. India is also sharing this growth and the number of anti-dumping cases against Indian industry was rising and it was only matter of months before anti-dumping cases against India are initiated.