The Engineering Export Promotion Council has represented that for those cases where the Cenvat facility has been availed, the drawback equivalent to the Customs component may be provided as has been made available to other products.
The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification No. 6/2002-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2002 [G.S.R. 127 (E), dated the 1st March, 2002] and was last amended by notification No. 62/2002-Central Excise, dated the 31st December, 2002 [G.S.R. No. 858 (E), dated the 31st December, 2002.
WHEREAS in the matter of import of Mulberry Raw Silk (not thrown), 2A grade and below (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under sub-heading 5002.00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, Peoples’ Republic of China, the designated authority vide its preliminary findings, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 20th December, 2002.
The matter has been examined by the Board. Considering that this facility would help promote exports of jewellery from SEZs and also considering that this would provide further flexibility of operations to the gem and jewellery manufacturing units in SEZ, it has been decided that the gem and jewellery manufacturing units in SEZ may be allowed to take out plain semi -finished jewellery into DTA for job work subject to the condition that the goods, finished or semi-finished including studded jewellery containing quantity and purity equal to the plain semi -finished jewellery taken out for job work shall be brought back within a period of 30 days. However, no diamonds, precious or semiprecious stones and studded jewellery shall be allowed to be taken out of the Zone for sub-contracting. For the purpose of taking out plain semi-finished Jewellery for job-work.
Rate of exchange applicable for the purposes of calculation of such anti-dumping duty shall be the rate which is specified in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), issued from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of sub-section (3) of section 14 of the said Customs Act, and the relevant date for the determination of the rate of exchange shall be the date of presentation of the bill of entry under section 46 of the said Customs Act.
Attention is invited to Public Notice No 14 dated 31.05.2002 and Public Notice No 33 dated 26.08.2002 which introduced a special provision for exemption of Special Additional Duty (SAD) on DEPB’s issued under the Exim Policy 2002-07 where the order of “let export” was prior to 01.04.2002. Para 7 of PN 14 dtd 31.5.02 is amended as under.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Finance ( Department of Revenue), No 105/99-Customs, dated the 10th August, 1999, namely.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of the section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 21 / 2002-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2002, namely.
Any non compliance by the issuer company shall be viewed seriously and suitable action shall be initiated under the Depositories Act, 1996 against the issuer company and its Directors.
SEBI Advisory Committee on Derivatives has clarified certain types of transactions with illustrative examples which may be considered as hedging and portfolio balancing.
