Ranjan Dhar, director and vice president – Sales and Marketing, Nippon Steel India Arceration (Amns India) | Photo credit: Cueapi
The center must urgently implement “commercial measures”, including the proposal for the safeguarding service in steel products, to protect the national industry from a potential increase in cheap imports, mainly from China, said Ranjan Doss and Vice -President (Amns India).
Hello, he added that these measures are crucial not only to avoid market interruption but also to guarantee confidence in future investment decisions of steel producers.
According to Dhar, provided that the commercial measure is not in place, imports “will remain at a high level.”
12% duty
The DGTR, after a preliminary probe, recommended a 12 percent safeguarding tariff on steel imports for a period of 200 days, with price lid in its place. The recommendation continues to consider the Ministry of Finance.
“In the first place, the recommendation was there from DGTR, and that must be implemented so that we understand whether the implementation will restrict something (imports) or not. If it does not, then it is probably needed more. Place).”
After months of increase, steel imports crushed to 0.9 million tons in January, and approximately 30 percent drying fell to 0.6 mt. For March, there was another sequential decrease of 8 percent to 0.54 Tm.
For the prosecutor, imports reached a maximum of 10 years or 9.5 TM, compared to exports, which are at a minimum of 10 years of 5.0 TM.
“(During the first three months, imports) have a slightly lower bone because research suggested that it is a case for safeguarding. Therefore, people did not want to risk. People did not know that percentage. The recommendation for 25,” “,” ”
Currently, China faces excess supply with its internal consumption not maintaining the pace of production. In 2024, China exported 110 TM of the alloy; And the countries that were traditionally exporting the metal in such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, have also established their manufacture. Then, the threat of throwing India coming.
Investment protection
Dhar said that steel companies, including Amns India, have been investing “very strongly” and that industry margins must protect themselves.
“The Indian steel industry must be protected by the margin so that the industry continues to invest in a bag in an expansion of capacity, what is happening. Therefore, whatever it is generated is to return to the company”, not those of Gebe or the companies are: “If the companies are the company:” If the companions of the company: for that, they are “very critical for investments continuously.”
“For the investment to continue, the margins for the industry must protect themselves,” Dhar added. “From that perspective, the continuity of the investment is very critical and that the industry is not an impediment.”
Consequently, it is important that the government’s action (in commercial measures) give confidence to the industry so that investments continue continuously.
“And the government is reactive and not passive to protect the issue of industries,” Dhar said.
Amns India has drawn in the first phase to an expansion plan of ₹ 60,000 million rupees to add almost 50 percent to its existing capacity in Hazira in Gujarat, at 15.6 MTPA (compared to 9 MTPA).
“Our approach to all the investments in which we are currently focused on national. If there are opportunities to export, we will see it there,” he told them that sacrifices in sectors such as carontive solar energy.
“We would become real because exports of goods produced outside steel occur, instead of steel as it is. Because we would do it because the maximum we value additional snacks in the country. And then the value of added value should be exported,” he said.
Perspective
According to Dhar, currently, the export opportunities “are low”; In addition to the geopolitical conerns surrounding the rates.
“But we cannot specify something that we do not know completely; and they are currently negotiated,” he said.
The demand for Indian steel for fiscal year 2016 is expected to be in a range of 8-10 percent, much higher than the global average, while the increase in production should be in the 7 percent group.
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Posted on April 16, 2025
