The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has finalized allocation of quota for import of calcined pet coke (CPC) to be used for anode making by the aluminium industry and raw pet coke (RPC) for CPC manufacturing.
Earlier this year in April, DGFT issued a public notification dated 17 Apr’20 in which it had specified a detailed procedure for allocation of 0.5 million tonnes (mn t) of CPC for use in the aluminium industry and 1.4 mn t of RPC for CPC manufacturing for the current financial year 2020-21.
The production capacity of calciners for producing CPC and corresponding RPC allocations by DGFT are enumerated as follows:
| # | Name | Production Capacity FY21 | Import Allocation FY21 | Production Capacity FY20 | Import Allocation FY20 |
| 1 | Rain CII | 511,000 | 481,961 | 511,000 | 552,462 |
| 2 | Sanvira | 330,000 | 311,247 | 200,000 | 216,227 |
| 3 | Goa Carbon | 308,000 | 290,497 | 308,000 | 332,991 |
| 4 | India Carbon | 54,000 | 50,931 | 54,000 | 58,381 |
| 5 | Neo Carbon | 75,000 | 70,738 | 75,000 | 50,000 |
| 6 | Amritesh Ind | 24,000 | 22,636 | 24,000 | 25,947 |
| 7 | Petro Carabon | 93,744 | 88,417 | 93,744 | 49,948 |
| 8 | Paradip Calciner | 46,200 | 43,575 | 10,000 | |
| 9 | Brahmaputra Carbon | 100,000 | 40,000 | 101,349 | |
| 10 | Kalinga Calciner | 0 | 46,200 | ||
| 11 | Vedic Petrochemical | 0 | 18,000 | ||
| TOTAL | 1,541,944 | 1,400,002 | 1,329,944 | 1,397,305 |
Notably since August 2018, India banned the import of pet coke for use as fuel, but allowed import of the product by a few industries, viz. cement, lime kiln, calcium carbide and gasification, when used for certain industrial purpose only as feedstock or in manufacturing process on actual user condition.
India imports about half of its annual pet coke consumption — mainly from the United States — while the domestic consumption is majorly catered by Reliance Industries, Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation.
By Aditya Sinha
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