Export Consultant in Morbi | Ceramic Tile Exporters | Rasp International

The European Union has definitive anti dumping measures on ceramic tiles originating in India, imposed under Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/265 and subsequently amended, with duties on Indian imports falling in a band of roughly six to nine percent depending on the producer.

The critical detail is that these regulations name individual producers in an annex, each with its own additional code and its own duty rate. If your company is named, you get your rate. If you are not named, you fall to the residual rate, which is higher. Exporters routinely discover this at the buyer’s end, after the duty has been assessed.

Separately, the United States has run trade remedy proceedings on ceramic tile from India, including an affirmative countervailing duty determination with a critical circumstances finding in part. A critical circumstances finding is the one to understand properly, because it can allow duties to be applied retroactively to entries made before the determination.

Rates and codes change through review proceedings. Verify your current position against the operative regulation before you quote a buyer, not after.

Because the code determines what they pay. Under EU anti dumping regulations, the company specific rate only applies where the goods are accompanied by a valid commercial invoice meeting the conditions set out in the regulation and the correct additional code is declared.

Get the paperwork wrong and your buyer pays the residual rate on a consignment they priced at your rate. That conversation usually ends the relationship. This is an invoice discipline problem inside your own office and it is entirely fixable.

Yes, and the rate is set against the eight digit HS code. Glazed ceramic tiles, unglazed tiles, vitrified tiles, porcelain and sanitaryware are not one product for scheme purposes even though they leave the same industrial estate.

A wrong classification does not generate a rejection. It silently reduces or zeroes the remission and the shortfall is almost never audited. In a low margin, high volume cluster like Morbi that difference is the margin.

Two structural points. A RoDTEP scrip can only be sold twenty four hours after issuance, not before. Duty drawback is a separate scheme that credits your bank account directly rather than issuing a transferable scrip.

The RoDTEP declaration not being marked on the shipping bill checklist at the time of filing. It cannot be added retrospectively. The claim is finished regardless of eligibility.

In a cluster moving hundreds of containers a month through clearing agents working at speed, this is the failure we see most often. It belongs on an internal checklist owned by someone in your office, not left to the CHA.

The second is an AD Code, IFSC or bank account mismatch between DGFT records and the shipping bill. The scrip has nowhere to credit.

More important here than in most clusters, because origin is what trade remedy authorities examine when they suspect circumvention. Ceramic tile is a product where transshipment allegations get raised, and an exporter with weak origin documentation is the easiest target in the room.

Keep origin documentation clean, consistent and defensible even for markets where nobody is currently asking. The point at which you need it is the point at which it is too late to build it.

Documentation mismatch across PAN, Aadhaar, GST and bank records leads the list. PAN and Aadhaar not being linked is second and it is absolute, because it blocks Aadhaar OTP authentication and forces you onto a Class 3 digital signature certificate.

Third is the cancelled cheque. Handwritten cheques are rejected. It has to be pre printed with the account holder name. When a container is waiting, a bank certificate in the prescribed format is faster than reordering a chequebook. Fourth is the bank account name not matching the registered firm name exactly, and matching is case sensitive.

Yes. The window runs 1 April to 30 June each year. Confirming no change is free, modifying carries a fee, and missing it deactivates the IEC entirely. Established units get caught by this more than new ones.

Rates were cut fifty percent in February 2026 under Notification 60/2025-26, then restored in full in March 2026 under Notification 66/2025-26. ITC HS Chapters 01 to 24 were exempt from the cut. The scheme runs to 30 September 2026 under Notification 74/2025-26.

The FY2026-27 allocation is roughly ten thousand crore against a prior figure closer to eighteen thousand crore. Smaller pool, same claimants. File early. Sitting on claims now carries a real cost.

Your current anti dumping position and producer specific code in every market you ship to. Invoice wording and code declaration matching what the regulation requires. HS classification checked line by line across tiles, vitrified and sanitaryware. RoDTEP declaration marked on every shipping bill. Origin documentation defensible under scrutiny. IEC annual updation confirmed. AD Code and bank details consistent across DGFT, GST and shipping bills.