Infrastructure and agricultural growth in India may have created a demand for polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which is mostly used in pipes and agri-based applications, but carbide-based PVC imports from China are damaging health and environmental threats as well as domestic industries, said by industry officials.
He said that these products have been dumped in the Indian market at artificially low prices, which contains residual vinyl chloride monomer (RVCM) -A group 1 carcinogen – as much as 10PPM, as high, breaks India’s permissible criteria significantly, he said.
He said that the current decrease of strict import quality enforcement risks converts India into a dumping ground for toxic and environmentally dangerous materials, while incorrectly damage to domestic manufacturers who meet all safety standards.
Unlike domestic-made PVCs, which follow the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) criteria, Chinese imports often bypass these checks, slip through enforcement intervals in existing quality control orders (QCOs).
The result is not only an agreement of public health, but also the erosion of environmental protection. When coming in contact with sunlight or friction, these lower-grains PVC products disintegrate in microplastics-sources of water, soil and potentially reduce the entire food chains, they said.
“An important issue is uncertainty by the government which is often amended by amending the enforcement dates of notified quality control orders,” said former director of National Institute of Training and top Kaul for standardization.
“Technical rules are the appliances of law and once inform a series of action by affected parties – manufacturers, raw material suppliers, organized buyers, test houses, certification agencies. Investments include technology upgradation, infrastructure, content, investment to meet BIS standards.”
He said, “There is a growing trend among the regulation ministries including DCPC, to inform a small lead period (3 to 6 months) on the first time, and then keep expanding its enforcement date based on the amount of sounds raised by the affected parties, such as powerful import lobby.”
“In some cases the extensions have increased by 2 to 3 years. Unlike the rules in the European Union and other countries, which evaluate and determine enough time limit to ensure compliance (and live with it), continuously wreaked havoc with Indian practice supply chains of extensions, which will remain on the tenterhoc until the last moment.”
“In many cases, (such as stainless steel utensils, cabinet hinges) Extension came after months. This scenario not only reduces the hard work and efforts of the manufacturers (including abroad) which protect BIS certificates at high costs, but also present an incredible policy rule to the world, he said that he said that the EASED of Wales of Wales said that the world also presents the world. Off duoage of doez of eaes.
India’s PVC pipe market is estimated to increase at 14.2% CAGR, reaching $ 1.24 billion by 2033.
But when demand increases, domestic capacity cannot keep pace, which depends on India to depend on imports – mainly from China, the world’s largest PVC exporter.
Industry officials stated that the current shortage of strict import quality enforcement risks converts India into a dumping ground for toxic and environmentally dangerous materials, while incorrectly damaging domestic manufacturers who meet all safety standards.
Published – June 19, 2025 11:47 pm IST
