Commercial importers of tiles, steel, paper: LHC declines to grant stay order

Lahore High Court (LHC) Friday not granted stay order to the commercial importers of tiles, steel, paper, chemical and yarn in the four new petitions filed against the anti-dumping duty investigations by the National Tariff Commission (NTC). Sources told Business Recorder here on Friday that the three petitions bearing No (s) 6478/2017, 7096/2017 and 21600/2017 were filed by commercial importers with the LHC. The cases were taken up by Judge Justice Ayesha A Malik of LHC.
LHC conducted hearing in cases against National Tariff Commission, wherein the notices of initiation, preliminary determination and final determination regarding anti-dumping duty on dumped imports of various goods were under challenge. The importers'' lawyer requested for transfer the cases to any other bench or refers the matter for constitution of a larger bench. The Judge said that since the case has already been fully argued by the Counsel for the petitioners, respondents'' lawyers, and domestic industry as well as NTC, who have concluded their arguments and only the Federal Government has to argue the case. Since the matter is part heard and all the parties have concluded their arguments except the Federal Government, therefore, the request of the petitioners (importers) cannot be accepted.