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Since the creation of GEM in the Year 2016, CMDA-Delhi has been actively involved with GeM in streamlining various categories, especially the category of computer printer cartridges, both from the perspective of the OEMs and the indigenous compatible brands.
Puneet Singhal, President, CMDA says, “We have always stood by for the ethical business practices in business and in line with it, we have participated in streamlining the E-commerce policy along with the country’s traders’ confederation CAIT, wherein suggestions on the said subject have also been shared with the commerce ministry, as well as the BIS (Appended Details).
CMDA-Delhi, with the active support from their mentor confederation CAIT, led by its National General Secretary Praveen Khandelwal, Member of Parliament from Chandni Chowk, is now actively Engaged in empowering women entrepreneurs and have in the recent past held an award function on this theme in Delhi.
Further, with the said mentorship of CAIT, the completion of a recent successful CMDA-Delhi supported event held in Mumbai, has been achieved by Praveen Khandelwal. This involved forming a strong national forum by combining different related/complimentary verticals and CMDA Delhi is working on it very seriously and would soon share the details at an appropriate time and occasion, as stated in the statement from the Association.
Support to the Indigenous Industry
“In line with this, we welcome the imposition of the ‘Anti-Dumping Duty’ as per the final finding of the DGTR’s Anti-Dumping Order no. 6/41/2024-DGTR dated 26th of September, 2025 on the complete/semi complete toner cartridge unit with the exception of components and other relevant categories as per the referred document,” says the official statement of the CMDA Delhi.
“The Zero percent Duty on the import of components would go a long way in helping this Industry grow domestically to finally make India into an exporting hub for the world with nearly all components being manufactured indigenously,” said Manoj Khanna, General Secretary, CMDA Delhi. “To further elaborate on our recent support to the indigenous industry, the printer toner cartridges was not having an assigned HSN Code which we got made with the Ministry, as also got the basic customs duty imposed on the imported finished products to support the indigenous assembling and manufacturing,” he added.
Deemed Perceived Advantages with the Imposition of the Anti-Dumping Duty
The proposed duty aims to restore fair competition, unlock domestic manufacturing capacity, conserve foreign exchange through import substitution; and may also revive self-employment by making remanufacturing/recharging more attractive.
Why this is good for India
The CMDA Delhi statement enumerates the following points –
- Increased domestic production and scale: A fair duty structure will allow Indian manufacturers to run plants at viable utilisation, stabilise costs and invest in capacity and automation reducing import dependence. This will also motivate newer manufacturers to establish their factories in India.
- Backward integration and component revival: With a level playing field, local makers of drums (OPC), magnetic rollers, blades, chips and housings can restart and scale. Many such units struggled earlier only because ultra-cheap finished cartridges undercut them.
- Ancillary growth and jobs: Packaging, tooling, moulding, testing labs, logistics and service networks will expand – creating formal and self-employment across clusters and MSMEs
- Revival of refilling and remanufacturing (self-employment) — With finished-cartridge prices normalising under antidumping duty, professionally refilled and remanufactured cartridges become more attractive, creating sustainable self-employment for technicians, MSMEs and service centres across cities and towns.
- Foreign-exchange savings — import substitution for the compatible segment conserves valuable forex by shifting spend to domestic production and locally sourced components.
- Exports from India – Scale breeds competitiveness. Once domestic demand is reliably met, India can credibly supply global buyers with competitively priced, quality-assured cartridges and components.
- More choice for importers-higher value roles: Importers are integral to the ecosystem. Antidumping on finished cartridges opens a pathway to pivot from finished-goods trade to components distribution, kit assembly and contract manufacturing; becoming key partners to Make-in-India assemblers, remanufacturers and refilters.
- Higher government revenues and compliance: Beyond duties, a stronger local base widens the tax net, encourages standards compliance; and curbs grey channels.
The anti-dumping duty can indeed be a game-changer for this industry. Taking a cue from success stories of Pharmaceuticals wherein most of the salts are imported from China and India is World’s Pharmaceutical Factory and Mobile Industry wherein components are imported from China but 99% of mobile phone used are proudly made in India. Similarly, Indian Toner cartridge industry needs to seize the opportunity as a reliable domestic as well as global supplier. Toner Cartridge Industry is now poised to fulfil demands of the World market.
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