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Custom Duty : The Court ruled that confiscation proceedings before Customs Authorities do not amount to prosecution before a judicial tribunal. ...
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Custom Duty : CESTAT Chennai held that unsigned invoices, unauthenticated e-mails, and uncorroborated statements were insufficient to reject tra...
Custom Duty : The Tribunal held that a medicine containing Ergotamine was merely a preparation and not “Ergotamine and its salts” under Sche...
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Custom Duty : CBIC has designated a common adjudicating authority to decide several customs show cause notices issued by different commissionera...
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Custom Duty : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority in the case of M/s. Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited, (IEC: 071500719...
Custom Duty : CBIC has directed Customs field formations not to seek FTP clarifications directly from DGFT. The new mechanism aims to ensure con...
The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide Notification No.61/94-Customs (N.T.), dated the 21st November 1994 [S.O. No.828 (E), dated the 21st November 1994] and was last amended vide Notification No.78/2006- Customs (N.T.) dated the 4th July 2006.
The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide Notification No.12/97-Customs (N.T.), dated the 2nd April 1997 [G.S.R. 193(E), dated the 2nd April, 1997] and was last amended vide Notification No.78/2007- Customs (N.T.) dated the 10th August 2007.
The Principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide Notification No.36/2001 – Customs (N.T.), dated, the 3rd August, 2001 (S.O.748 (E), dated, the 3rd August, 2001) and was last amended vide Notification No. 101/2007-Customs (N.T.), dated, the 4th October, 2007 (S.O.1699(E) dated 4th October, 2007).
All precautions may please be taken to ensure that only the correct amount gets credited into the exporters’ accounts. Sample cases may be taken up for manual checking and validation. It may also be ensured that in cases where the exporters have already taken the differential drawback by filing supplementary claims, the EDI system does not again credit the differential drawback amount into exporter’s accounts.
An ‘Explanation’ has been added to Rule 12 (erstwhile Rule 10A), which relates to rejection of declared value, to bring more clarity and objectivity in exercising the authority for rejection of declared value. The Explanation clarifies that this rule as such does not provide a method for determination of value, and that it merely provides a mechanism and procedure for rejection of declared value in certain cases.
While raising doubt about truth or accuracy of the declared value in terms of Rule 8, the proper officer shall issue a query memo specifying reasons for such doubt. Meanwhile, the goods will be released for export against a simple undertaking after drawal of representative sample as indicated in para 5. The decision to initiate the process of investigation into valuation aspects, if any, shall be taken at the earliest at the level of Joint /Additional Commissioner.
Whereas, the designated authority vide notification No.15/6/2007-DGAD, dated the 8th October, 2007, published in Part I, Section 1 of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated the 8th October, 2007 has initiated review, in terms of sub-section (5) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) read with rule 23 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 129A of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Board hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, No. 39/2005-Customs (N.T.), dated the 13th May, 2005 namely.
The Principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide Notification No.36/2001 – Customs (N.T.), dated, the 3rd August, 2001 (S.O.748 (E), dated, the 3rd August, 2001) and was last amended vide Notification No. 97/2007-Customs (N.T.), dated, the 17th September,2007 (S.O.1557(E) dated 17th September,2007).
The aforesaid opinion of the Ministry of Law has been accepted by the Ministry. Accordingly, it is clarified that exemption from special additional duty may be allowed for the goods imported under the DEPB Scheme against licences issued in pursuance of Supreme Court judgement in Civil Appeal No.5196 of 2005 [arising out of SLP (Civil) No.15844 of 2004] in respect of exports of tobacco made from ICD, Guntur during the period from 7.4.1997 to 26.11.1997 and that this duty is not required to be debited from the DEPB licence / scrip.
