Revenue department goes slow on several anti-dumping cases Top Searches Revenue department goes slow on several anti-dumping cases Sidhartha / TNN / Updated: Mar 11, 2021, 09:01 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail NEW DELHI: What’s common between Thai radial tyres for buses and lorries and Chinese caustic soda? They are among a whole host of items on which the revenue department has not imposed antidumping duty, despite the directorate general of trade remedies (DGTR) recommending action. The list of such items is only growing by the day, with industry estimates suggesting that there are 25-30% of the products on which the DGTR’s recommendation has been rejected during the last 18-20 months. DGTR is the agency housed in the commerce department, In contrast, during the earlier months, revenue department’s strike rate in acting on DGTR’s recommendations was as high as 90%. Between January 2018 and May 2019, there were 33 investigations by the agency and the number nearly doubled during the next 18 months.