There have been instances of textiles products like acrylic fibre, acrylic yarn, silk fabric, nylon yarn & flax fibre being imported into India at prices well below the domestic prices of these products in the exporting countries.
This has caused the Government to initiate the anti-dumping investigations and impose anti-dumping duties as due and warranted. This was stated by the Minister of State for Textiles, Smt. Panabaaka Lakshmi in the Lok Sabha, in a written reply to a question by Shri Chandrakant Khaire, Shri Uday Singh and Shri Nityananda Pradhan.
The Minister further informed the House that the Government has no information about the Chinese textiles products being sold in India with 'Made in India' labels.
Reported influx of fake textiles products has not affected India's textiles exports to Nigeria. India's textiles exports to Nigeria during the last three years are given below:
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