Attention is invited to Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department Of Revenue ), notification no. 17/2001-Customs dated 1st March, 2001, as amended vide notification no. 119/2001-Customs dated 16th November, 2001. As per these notifications, import of the four items viz., (1) Skimmed and whole milk powder, milk food for babies etc. (0402.10 or 0402.21) (2) Maize (corn), other(1005.90) (3) Crude sunflower seed or safflower oil or fractions thereof(1512.11) and (4) Refined rape, colza or mustard oil, other(1514.90) is allowed, upto the quantities as well as such concessional rates of customs duty as indicated therein.
As regards Special Certification requirement for special preferential raw cane sugar under European Commission Regulation No. 2513/2001, the following endorsements may be made in respect of preferential sugar export to EU from India.
It has been decided to allocate a quantity of 8500MTs (Eight Thousand Five Hundred MTs ) of Raw Sugar out of free sale portion of 2001-2002 (October 1, 2001 to Septpember, 2002) season’s production for export to USA as a Preferential Raw Cane Sugar Tariff Rate Quota for the fiscal year 2002 and place the same at the disposal of the Indian Sugar Exim Corporation Ltd.
DGFT issues a circular allowing exemption for importing textile samples not for human consumption, subject to specific conditions and limitations.
