As 2025 winds to its close, India is strengthening its trade defence in the rubber spectrum, with the DGTR launching fresh anti-dumping investigations into medical examination gloves from Malaysia and Thailand, and a sunset review of fluoroelastomer imports from China. The Indian Finance Ministry, on the other hand, has imposed new anti-dumping duties on insoluble sulphur, while the DGTR has recommended the continuation of duties on NBR imports.