The criteria for recognition as status holder has been changed w.e.f 01.04.2016 to the exports in the current and previous three financial years from the existing criteria of current and previous two financial years. Forthe Gems and Jewellery Sectors the existing criteria of export performance in the current and previous two years shall continue.
Vide Notification No. 36/2001–Customs (N.T.), dated the 3rd August, 2001, vide number S. O. 748 (E), dated the 3rd August, 2001 and was last amended vide Notification No. 54/2016-Customs (N.T.), dated the 13th April, 2016, e-published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S. O.1425(E), dated 13th April, 2016.
The safeguard duty shall not be imposed on the subject goods which are imported at or above the Minimum Import Price in terms of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Commerce) (Directorate General of Foreign Trade) No. 38/2015-2020, dated the 5th February, 2016 published in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary), Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide S.O. 391(E) dated the 5th February, 2016.
