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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 : 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 : CESTAT Delhi held that food testing kits were wrongly described as being for “diagnostic use only” to claim a customs exemptio...
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...
The Indian cricket players can’t seem to put it down it but the World Cup trophy they have with them is actually just a replica as the original is still lying with the customs. “The original is lying with the Customs,” said a BCCI sources without elaborating. When contacted Customs sources, however, said the Cup was with them for non-payment of duty of 35 per cent of the original value.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Ministry of Finance has denied that the original ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 trophy is lying in the Airport Customs Warehouse in Mumbai. The clarification was issued in response to the report appearing in certain section of media that actual ICC Cricket World Cup trophy has not been awarded to the winning India Cricket team at Wankhede Stadium,Mumbai on Saturday,2nd April,2011.
The Press all over the world reported that the Customs Officers agreed to release the trophy if they were given tickets for the match. The ICC official gave them the shock of their lives and asked them to keep the trophy as there was another version of the trophy already in the stadium. Pakistan’s Daily Mail reported, “WC Trophy impounded for tickets – Customs officers at Mumbai airport confiscated what they thought was the cricket World Cup trophy in a dispute over unpaid duty – officers were confused when they were told to keep the trophy until after the final, when the ICC would take it back to their headquarters in Dubai. They were unaware that there were two identical trophies and the other had been at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium for the last month awaiting the winning captain ”
Acting on a specific intelligence, the DRI officers of Siliguri under Kolkata Zonal Unit had effected a seizure of Red sanders wood weighing 6110 kg. valued at Rs. 61.10 lakhs from a truck bearing registration no. HR-55F-4435 on 03.04.2011 at Ghoshpukur, Dist-Darjeeling, W.B. The logs of 6110 kg of red sanders wood, recovered from the truck were kept concealed under 272 pcs. of Indian style sanitary pans & 960 pcs. of small pipes. The 6110 kg. of red sanders wood, 272 pcs. of Indian style sanitary pan, 960 pcs. of small pipes and the carrier truck were seized under section 110 of the Customs Act, 1962 on reasonable belief that the said goods were meant for illegal export to Nepal through unauthorised route. Total seizure value of the case is Rs. 69.94 lakh. Two drivers of the said truck involved in carrying the red sanders wood knowingly, were arrested. Further investigation is in progress.
With India’s sugar production set to exceed domestic demand, the government is likely to re-impose 60 per cent import duty on sugar from tomorrow. “The duty free notification lapses on today and from April 1 it automatically reverts back to the old duty structure,” the official source said.
Siddachalam Exports Private Limited vs Commissioner of Central Excise, Delhi-III [SUPREME COURT OF INDIA- Duty drawback – goods had been over-valued with the intention of claiming undue draw-back amounts – instead of first determining the value of the goods on the basis of contemporaneous exports of identical goods, the Revenue erroneously resorted to a market enquiry – contemporaneous exports of identical goods was not available, the procedure laid down in Rules 5 to 8 of the 1988 Rules was required to be followed and market enquiry could be conducted only as a last resort – in the absence of any other independent evidence relating to market enquiry, there was no other corroborating evidence to support the allegation of inflation in FOB value – the matter is remitted back to the adjudicating authority for fresh consideration in accordance with law.
Notification No. 27/2011-Customs (N.T.)- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 4 and sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Joint Commissioner or Additional Commissioner of Customs (Import), Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House, Nhava Sheva, Post: Uran, District: Raigarh, Maharashtra, to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on-(i) Joint Commissioner or Additional Commissioner of Customs (Import), New Custom House, Ballard, Mumbai; (ii) Assistant Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Customs (Imports), Air Cargo Complex, Sahar, Andheri (E), Mumbai-400009;
Notification No. 26/ 2011 – Customs (N.T.) – In the Courier Imports and Exports (Electronic Declaration and Processing) Regulations, 2010, (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations),- (1) in regulation 3 of the said regulations, in sub-regulation (1), after clause (g), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:- “(ga)” “low value dutiable consignment” means an import consignment (other than documents, gifts and samples) of an invoice value not exceeding one lakh rupees.
Circular No.16/2011-Customs – The issues of increasing imports of satellite phones in passenger baggages without obtaining authorization and import of foreign exchange in excess of amount of US $10,000/- or equivalent without declaration to Customs have been referred to MHA for redressal by making suitable modifications in the Customs part of Arrival Card for Passengers so that all passengers are required to declare these items at the time of arrival at international airport in India.
Notification No. 25/2011 – Customs (N. T.), New Delhi, 31st March, 2011. S. O… (E) – In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Board, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 36/2001-Cus (N. T.), dated, the 3rd August 2001, namely: –
