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ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is in Turkiye, the country’s Ministry of Trade has expressed reservations over the methodology adopted by Pakistan’s National Tariff Commission (NTC) to determine the injury margin in its anti-dumping investigation into imports of soda ash from Türkiye and Kenya.
According to the Turkish authorities, the NTC’s departure from its previous practice provides undue protection to an industry producing intermediary goods consumed by downstream industries, placing manufacturers of high-value-added finished products at a disadvantage.
Turkish authorities have also urged their Pakistani counterparts to reconsider the methodology adopted in the investigation. Officials fear the issue may be taken up by the Turkish side during the prime minister’s visit.
In an official letter dated July 2, addressed to the NTC, Türkiye’s Directorate General for Imports argued that the commission had applied a 10pc profit margin while calculating the non-injurious price of the domestic industry in its preliminary determination, instead of the 5pc profit margin used in previous anti-dumping investigations.
