RIYADH: The anti-dumping affairs committee of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry dropped an investigation into the 2-Ethyl Hexanol (2-EH) imports from the Kingdom, the Embassy of India stated on Sunday.

The commercial wing of the embassy said: "The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) dropped the investigation on Thursday (Feb. 18)."

Quoting the DGAD, an official at the diplomatic mission said: "Dumping margin of the imports of the specified goods from Saudi Arabia is found to be de minimis and so the investigation against this country has been terminated."

The investigation is terminated without imposition of fees on the Kingdom's exports to India, the official added.

Notably, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, deputy minister of petroleum and mineral resources, was leading the Saudi team in charge of following up the matter with India on dumping with SABIC-produced 2-EH and issued a remark in this regard here on Saturday saying, "the anti-dumping affairs committee at the Indian ministry has abrogated the decision to probe into flooding the market with SABIC-produced Ethyl Hexanol.”

The Kingdom was following the dumping issue consistently. The Saudi defense pointed that the margin is very low and could not be considered at a base for imposing a dumping fee on the petrochemical product and the Indian side agreed to maintain the position.

The 2-EH is a branched, eight-carbon chiral alcohol produced for use in numerous applications such as solvents, flavors, and fragrances and especially as a precursor for production of other chemicals such as emollients and plasticizers.

Main application of 2-EH is as a feedstock in the manufacture of low volatility esters.