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In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-09 and Paragraph 1.1 of the Handbook of Procedures (Vol.1), the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendments in the Handbook of Procedures, Vol.2, 2009 -2014, as amended from time to time.
Subject: (i) New Office address of Regional Authority Vadodara. (ii) Amendment in Public Notice No. 55 dated 9.4.2010.
In exercise of powers conferred under section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 read with paragraph 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in Schedule –1 of the ITC(HS) Classifications of Export and Import Items.
Following shall be added at the end of Para 2.1.12 of the Notification No. 93 (RE-2007)/2004-09 dated 1st April, 2008: “2.1.13 With immediate effect, ban on export of Non-basmati rice shall also not be applicable to export of 1,00,000 MTs of non basmati rice (Parboiled) to Bangladesh as follows:
With immediate effect, existing entry against ITC (HS) code 1101 pertaining to wheat products, at Sl. No. 46A of the table in Paragraph 1 of Notification No. 33(RE-2007)/2004-2009, dated 08.10.2007 read with Notification No. 116 (RE-2008)/2004-2009, dated 3.7.2009.
PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 64/2009-14, NEW DELHI: DATED THE 18th MAY, 2010. In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes, with immediate effect, the following amendments in the Handbook of Procedures, Vol. 1:
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 read with Section 3(2) of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) and read with Para 1.3 and Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment, with immediate effect, in Paragraph 1 of Notification No. 33(RE-2007)/2004-2009, dated 08.10.2007, as amended from time to time:
In view of Customs readiness to accept online transmission of DES (Advance Authorization), EPCG and DEPB authorizations at the following 9 ICES 1.5 new locations, all RA’s of DGFT may note that for all the newly added ports, aforesaid authorizations issued w.e.f. 17.5.2010, will be communicated online to Customs for necessary processing at their end. It may also further be noted that for all DEPB Shipping Bills issued w.e.f. 17.5.2010 from these ports, application will have to be filed mandatory in EDI mode:
In Appendix 37A, the following Note is added against the VKGUY entry No. 6 of Table 1A, and entry No. 18 of Table 2. “For the purpose of claiming VKGUY benefit, the admissible FOB value for export products covered by ITC HS Code ‘0305’ (falling under this VKGUY entry) shall be the same as admissible in terms of the Public Notice No. 56/2009-14 dated 20.04.2010”
PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 62 /2009-2014, NEW DELHI, DATED 13th May, 2010. Subject: Deletion of para 2.33.1 of HBP Vol.1, 2009-2014. In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendment in the Handbook of Procedures( Vol.1 ) 2009-2014:-
