The government may soon impose anti-dumping duty on 19 colour-coated steel products with a view to protect domestic players from cheap inbound shipments and give a fillip to the sector.

Currently,the government has imposed minimum import price (MIP) on these 19 products, which are mainly colour-coated steel items, till February 4.

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 "The MIP was on 173 items. We have brought it down to 19. Rest of them, we have converted into anti-dumping. Anti-dumping will continue as the evidences are there," Steel Secretary Aruna Sharma said in a interview to PTI. 

She said that anti-dumping investigation is already in the process on these 19 products. "These 19 should not circumvent with it therefore we have put it (MIP) at this stage. On that also, we will move on to the anti-dumping route.