China will maintain anti-dumping duties on Indian single-mode optical fibre for another five years, citing risks of dumping and safeguarding its domestic industry amid rising global trade disputes in the sector.
China will keep anti-dumping duties on single-mode optical fibre imported from India for another five years from Friday, according to the Ministry of Commerce, extending a trade measure first introduced in 2014 and renewed in 2020. The decision follows a sunset review, a standard reassessment carried out before a duty expires, which concluded that ending the tariffs could allow dumping to resume and damage China’s domestic optical fibre industry.
The rates will stay unchanged, ranging from 7.4% to 30.6% depending on the exporter. Sterlite Technologies will continue to face the lowest rate at 7.4%, while Aksh Optifibre and Finolex Cables will remain subject to 30.6%, according to the ministry’s announcement. The new term takes effect on Friday, August 14, 2026.
The move comes as Beijing has stepped up trade remedies in the optical fibre sector. In September 2025, China imposed anti-circumvention measures on certain optical fibre imports from the United States after finding that some exporters were routing products in ways that appeared designed to avoid existing duties, according to a report by ecns.cn. The European Union has also taken its own trade action in this area, including duties on single-mode optical fibre from China in 2021 and provisional duties on imports from India in 2024, underscoring how widely the sector has become caught up in global trade disputes.
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