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Address of the jurisdictional Central Excise Authority under whom the proposed CG is to be installed may not be insisted in the case of Service Providers who are not registered with Service Tax authorities. A declaration from the applicant may be taken in this regard.
In the third sub-paragraph below S No. 8, the first sentence is amended to read as under- “In respect of categories 3, 4 & 5 above, if the exporter has not exported for all the 3 preceding years, 25% Bank Guarantee condition shall be imposed on the duty saved amount, provided the CIF value does not exceed 200% of the domestic turnover or 200% of FOB/FOR value of supplies of the preceding licensing year, whichever is higher.
Attention is invited to Para 4 of Policy Circular No 36 dated 3rd June 2004 wherein the last date for making application for renewal of the Status Holder certificate was 31.10.2004. Representations have been received from trade & industry that the said date may be extended to enable the applicants to file the renewal applications. The matter has been deliberated upon in this office and it has been decided to extend the last date for submission of such applications for renewal for Status recognition till 30th November 2004.
The matter was deliberated upon and accordingly it is clarified that wherever import of penicillin and its salts( ITC(HS) Code 29411010) is allowed under advance licence scheme, export obligation period of such licences shall be restricted to 3 months from the date of clearance of import of first consignment. No further export obligation period extension shall be allowed for such advance licences. An endorsement in the advance licence shall be made by the licensing authority to this effect.
In S. No. 2 pertaining to Scale of application fee under Appendix 29 which stipulates the “Procedure for Deposit/ Refund of Import Application Fee and Other Fee” (As amended as per Annexure II to Public Notice No. 2/2004-09 dated 13.09.204), the following footnote
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, 2004-09, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the ITC(HS) Classifications of Export and Import Items, 2004-09.
It is, accordingly clarified that (i) supply of goods made to projects financed by agencies / funds notified by the Department of Economic Affairs and covered under Appendix 33 of Handbook of Procedures would continue to be eligible for deemed export benefits covered under para 8.3 (a) & (b), viz., (a) advance license for deemed exports, and / or (b) deemed export drawback, as the case may be.
An application in the form given in Appendix- 12B along with the documents prescribed therein, shall be made by the supplier to the Regional Licensing Authority concerned. The recipient may also claim the benefits on production of a suitable disclaimer from the supplier along with non-availment of CENVAT credit certificate from the Jurisdictional Excise Authority in addition to the prescribed documents.
In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-09, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendments in the Handbook of Procedures (Vol. I) & Public Notice No. 16 dated 15.10.2004.
It is hereby clarified that the Type Approval Certificate is required to be issued as per EEC directive 70/156/EEC by one of the testing agencies notified in Policy Circular No.26 dated 9.2.2004. For the European Union, a certificate from the country of origin need not be insisted upon. However, the certificate must come from a signatory country to the 1958 Agreement under WP 29. A list of such signatories is available at web site: www.unece.org.