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Custom Duty : Anti-dumping duty protects local manufacturers from unfairly cheap imports that can damage domestic markets. The article explains ...
Custom Duty : The new customs notifications standardize the effective import duty on gold and silver bullion at 15% through revised BCD, SWS, an...
Custom Duty : The article argues that the sharp increase in gold import duty was triggered by pressure on India’s forex reserves, rising oil p...
Custom Duty : Emergency customs relaxations introduced during the maritime crisis expire on 30 April 2026, leaving exporters uncertain. The fram...
Custom Duty : Highlights how the EMI Scheme allows businesses to defer duty payments, easing working capital pressure while improving operationa...
Custom Duty : The India–Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement became operational on 1 June 2026 after completion of required proce...
Custom Duty : The reform removes value restrictions on courier exports, enabling higher-value shipments. It aims to boost e-commerce exports and...
Custom Duty : CBIC has allowed Eligible Manufacturer Importers to avail deferred payment of customs duty from 1 April 2026. The circular outline...
Custom Duty : The CBI has registered a bribery case against three Customs officials accused of taking illegal gratification to release seized go...
Custom Duty : The new rules enhance duty-free allowances and introduce digital declarations. The overhaul aims to speed up clearance and improve...
Custom Duty : The Court ruled that confiscation proceedings before Customs Authorities do not amount to prosecution before a judicial tribunal. ...
Custom Duty : Where an EPCG licence holder becomes incapable of fulfilling export obligations due to unavoidable circumstances such as SARFAESI ...
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...
Custom Duty : CESTAT examined whether Bluetooth headsets should be treated as communication devices or ordinary headphones. It held that devices...
Custom Duty : The Central Government has amended Notification No. 62/2022-Customs to prescribe a 0% Basic Customs Duty on all goods falling unde...
Custom Duty : CBIC has designated a common adjudicating authority to decide several customs show cause notices issued by different commissionera...
Custom Duty : CBIC exercised its powers under the Customs Act, 1962 to appoint a common adjudicating authority for two customs proceedings invol...
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...
Notification No. 104 /2011-Customs Whereas in the matter of imports of Hot Rolled Flat Products of Stainless Steel of ASTM Grade 304 with all its variants,(hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), classified under Chapter 72 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, European Union, Korea RP, South Africa, Taiwan and USA (hereinafter referred as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority in its final findings vide notification No. 14/12/2010-DGAD, dated the 11th October, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, the dated 11th October , 2011, had come to the conclusion that –
Notification No. 81/2011 Cus.(NT) dated 25.11.2011: Central Board of Excise and Customs has issued new Customs (Provisional Duty Assessment) Regulations, 2011. The new regulations provide that duty can be provisionally assessed by the proper officer if an importer/exporter is unable to make self-assessment under section 17(1) of the Customs Act, 1962 or if the proper officer is not able to verify the self-assessment or make re-assessment of the duty on the imported/export goods.
Notification No. 80/2011 – Customs (N.T.) – (1) These regulations may be called the Shipping Bill (Electronic Declaration) Regulations, 2011.(2) They shall apply to export of goods from all customs stations where the Indian Customs Electronic Data Interchange System is in operation. (3) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Notification No. 79/2011 – Customs (N.T.) These regulations may be called the Bill of Entry (Electronic Declaration) Regulations, 2011. (2) They shall apply to the import of goods through all customs stations where the Indian Customs Electronic Data Interchange System is in operation. (3) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
‘Self-Assessment’ in Customs has been implemented w.e.f. 8.4.2011 vide Finance Act, 2011 by suitable changes to Sections 17, 18, 46 and 50 of the Customs Act, 1962. Self-Assessment interalia requires importers / exporters to correctly declare value, classification, description of goods, exemption notifications etc. and self assess the duty thereon, if any. As Self-Assessment is newly introduced, the Central Board of Excise and Customs is releasing this Manual to guide importers / exporters in making correct Self-Assessment of duty of imported or export goods.
Notification No. 103/2011-Customs Whereas in the matter of imports of Opal Glassware (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under heading 7013 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred as the said Customs Tariff Act), originating in, or exported from, People’s Republic of China and UAE (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority in its preliminary findings vide notification No.14/24/2010-DGAD, dated the 27th June, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 27th June, 2011, had come to the conclusion that-
Shah Pulp & Paper Mills Limited Vs. UOI (Delhi HC) – In considering the challenge to the validity of paragraph 7(iii), it has become necessary for the Court to advert in some detail to the background underlying the promulgation of the scheme. The scheme, when it was issued initially on 24 November 2005 was designed to promote an expeditious facilitation of import cargo. The scheme seeks to balance the need of the trade and industry for facilitation on the one hand with the enforcement concerns of the department. An importer who is registered as an accredited client becomes entitled under the scheme to a clearance of the cargo on the basis of self assessment.
Champion Photostat Industrial Corporation Vs UOI (P&H High Court) – Section 46 of the Act deals with the submission of Bill of Entry by an importer. There is no condition in the said Section, which prohibits the submission of Bill of Entry by an importer himself or that the importer has to have some educational qualification. It is only Section 146 of the Act, which deals with the clearing with the intervention of the Customs House Agents. Since such agents have to act for others, certain qualifications have been fixed in the regulations framed to regulate their working and also by Public Notice.
NOTIFICATION No. 102 /2011-CUSTOMS In the said notification, in the Table, after S.No.35 and the entries relating thereto, the following S.No. and entries shall be inserted, ” 36 -Machinery, equipment, instruments, components, spares, jigs, fixtures, dies, tools, accessories, computer software, computer hardware, castings, forgings piping, tubing, chemicals, bio-chemicals, refrigerants, raw materials and consumables, ammunition and ground support equipments required for the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MR-SAM) Programme of Ministry of Defence namely:-
The principal notification No. 21/2002- Customs, dated the 1st March, 2002, was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i), vide number G.S.R. 118(E), dated the 1st March, 2002 and was last amended by notification No. 97/2011-Customs, dated the 13th October, 2011 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i), vide number G.S.R. 760(E), dated the 13th October, 2011.
