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This notification intends to take care of the technical changes adopted in the numbering scheme for Customs classification through Customs Tariff (Amendment) Ordinance, 2003 (1 of 2003). These amendments do not involve any substantive changes in the existing notifications. Hence, the particulars of the individual notification are not indicated.
The principal notification No. 30/97-Cus. (N.T.) dated 7th July, 1997 was published in Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section(i), dated 7th July, 1997 under GSR 366(E) and was last amended vide notification No. 18/2002-Cus.(N.T.), dated 7th March, 2002 published in Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section(i), dated 7th March, 2002 under GSR 174(E), dated 7th March, 2002.
The Re-export of Imported Goods (Drawback of Customs Duties) Rules,1995 were modified vide Customs notification No.36/95-Cus. (NT) dated 26th May, 1995 Which was published in the Gazetted of India (Extraordinary), vide GSR No. 440(E) dated the 26th May, 1995 and it was last amended by Notification No.29/99-Cus (NT) dated the 11th May, 1999 vide GSR No.334(E) dated the 11th May, 1999.
The principal notification No.21/2002-Customs dated the 1st March, 2002 was Published in the Gazette of India, (Extraordinary) vide GSR No.118 (E), dated the 1st March, 2002 and last amended by Notification No. 4/2003-Customs dated, the 3rd January,2003 vide GSR No. 6(E), dated the 3rd January,2003.
The principal notification No.28/97-Customs dated the 1st April, 1997 was published in the Gazette of India, (Extraordinary) vide GSR No.184 (E), dated the 1st April, 1997 and lastly amended by Notification No. 113/2002-Customs, vide GSR No. 704(E), dated the 16th October,2002.
Commissioner of Customs (Preventive), New Delhi has brought a case of misuse of Duty Drawback Scheme where the exporters tried to avail benefits of Drawback Scheme by misdeclaring export goods as ‘leather harness’ whereas on an actual examination the consignments were found to contain rags of leather hunters/whips on which no drawback is admissible. This case has been made by Preventive Commissionerate at ICD, Patparganj and another container of the same intelligence has been detained at Nhava Sheva for investigation.
The Engineering Export Promotion Council has represented that duty drawback rates in respect of these products have been determined by taking into consideration only ‘Steel’ as the input. Therefore, they should be permitted to avail of the Cenvat facility as regards the other inputs other than ‘Steel’, for example, consumables, furnace oil, high speed diesel oil, light diesel oil, superior kerosene oil, machinery spares, die blocks, etc.
The principal notification No. 105/99-Customs, dated the 10th August, 1999 was published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary vide G.S.R 582 (E), dated the 10th August, 1999 and was last amended by notification No. 145/2002-Customs, dated the 31st December, 2002.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (1) of rule 3 of the Customs Tariff (Transitional Product Specific Safeguard Duty) Rules, 2002, and in supersession of notifications of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 45/97-Customs(NT), issued vide G.S.R. No. 542(E), dated the 16th September, 1997 and No. 42/2002-Customs(NT), issued vide G.S.R. No. 464(E) dated 28th June, 2002, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such supersessions, the Central Government hereby appoints Shri B. K. Mishra, Director General (Safeguard), as Director General (Specific Safeguard) for the purposes of the said rules.
Therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 8A of the said Customs Tariff Act, the Central Government, hereby directs that the First Schedule of the said Customs Tariff Act shall be amended in the following manner, namely.
