India will probe imports of belting fabrics from China. The charge: China has been dumping belting fabric, a rubberised textile fabric or conveyor belt fabric produced from various industrial yarns. It is normally made of either nylon or polyester or a combination thereof as well as from various industrial yarns like Nylon 6, Nylon 66 and polyester industrial yarn. It is being produced and sold either as grey fabric or as dipped fabric. In case of sale of grey fabric, the consumers may do dipping of the fabric in-house before consumption of the product.

Belting fabric is produced in large combinations of raw material and construction, using different combinations of nylon and polyester yarn of different deniers. The product under consideration is a woven fabric having length wise threads called warp and width wise threads called weft. The product under consideration is reinforcement material for manufacturing of conveyor belts, used prominently in mines and in coal, steel, cement, power and other industries.

The probe has been initiated following a petition filed by SRF. There are other producers whose names have been provided by the petitioner along with their petition. Belting fabric is classified under Chapter 59 of the Customs Tariff Act.