Prior to placing restrictions on imports of low ash metallurgical coke, which is used in the production of steel, India would engage in more extensive talks with steel businesses. The proposed country-specific import quota in April capped annual imports of low ash metallurgical coke, or met coke, at 2.85 million metric tons for a single year. India is the world’s second- largest producer of crude steel.
The federal trade ministry’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade has requested that the DGTR start discussions in order to get input from all relevant parties, including domestic met coke manufacturers and steel mills. The deadline for finishing the consultation process has not been specified by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, which requested that it begin about two weeks ago.
Using the threat to domestic output as justification, the Indian federal steel ministry also wrote to the commerce ministry to express its opposition to meet coke import restrictions.