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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 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 circular permits unloading of returned export cargo and cancellation of Shipping Bills under special conditions. Export incent...
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 new rules enhance duty-free allowances and introduce digital declarations. The overhaul aims to speed up clearance and improve...
Custom Duty : New baggage rules and processing regulations are notified, replacing earlier frameworks and aligning customs procedures for passen...
Custom Duty : Government initiatives, including PLI schemes and export missions, support resilience and growth in textile and apparel exports de...
Custom Duty : Notification 45/2025 merges 31 previous customs notifications into a single reference, continuing most exemptions and simplifying ...
Custom Duty : CAAR Mumbai refused to entertain an advance ruling application on roasted areca nuts after noting that the classification issue ha...
Custom Duty : CAAR Mumbai rejected an advance ruling application after holding that the classification issue relating to roasted areca nuts had ...
Custom Duty : The Customs Authority for Advance Ruling held that the classification dispute concerning roasted betel and areca nuts had already ...
Custom Duty : CAAR Mumbai held that imported elevator parts lacking guide rails, structural supports, and enclosure systems could not be classif...
Custom Duty : The Customs Authority for Advance Rulings held that classification of roasted areca nuts under Heading 2008 had already been concl...
Custom Duty : CBIC issued Notification No. 47/2026-Customs (N.T.) continuing existing tariff values for key imported commodities including palm ...
Custom Duty : The Central Government directed provisional assessment of imports of anodized aluminium frames for solar panels from a Chinese exp...
Custom Duty : CBIC has clarified that Entry Inward and Vessel Sail-out Clearance cannot be delayed due to pending physical boarding of customs o...
Custom Duty : CBIC has updated customs tariff values for gold, silver, palm oil, soybean oil, and brass scrap through Notification No. 46/2026-C...
Custom Duty : CBIC extended the validity of multiple customs circulars issued under Section 143AA until 30 June 2026 because of ongoing maritime...
Notification No. 45/2011-CustomsIndia has extended duty-free market access to Afghanistan as part of its economic package for least developed countries (LDCs). Under the scheme, the import of most products from the neighbouring country will be allowed at zero duty. The Finance Ministry has issued a notification in this regard. India’s Duty-Free Tariff Preference (DFTP) scheme, launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2008, provides preferential duty access on products comprising 92.5 per cent of global LDC exports.
CIRCULAR [F. NO. A. 35017/35/2011-AD.II], DATED 30-5-2011 – I am directed to state that seven (7) posts of Indirect Tax Ombudsman at 7 stations, viz., New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Lucknow (in the HAG + pay scale of Rs. 75,500-80,000 per month) have been created vide Sanction Order No. 92/2011, dated 5-5-2011 issued from File No. A-11011/1/2006-Ad.I of this Department.
CIRCULAR [D.O. F.NO.A-12026/5/2011-AD.I], DATED 25-5-2011 You are aware that the Government of India has created 7 posts of Indirect Tax Ombudsman at 7 stations, viz., New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Lucknow under the Indirect Tax Ombudsman Guidelines, 2011. Selection for the posts of Indirect Tax Ombudsman in these locations is to be made.
Circular No.24/2011-Customs References have been received from the field formations for specifying the ‘proper officer’ for issuance of show cause Notice and adjudication of cases of export under the drawback and Export Promotion Schemes. Further, as per Board’s Circular No.23/2009-Customs dated 1.09.2009, whereas the monetary limits of adjudication are prescribed in terms of duty involved, in respect of notices involving extended period of limitation, the monetary limit is specified based on the value of goods involved. This when worked out in accordance with the duty rates prescribed gives rise to an anomalous situation.
Notification No. 37/2011 – Customs (N. T.) – Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Department of Revenue has issued a Notification No.37/2011-Customs (N.T.) dated May 31, 2011 and thereby notifying tariff values of edible oils, brass scrap (all grades) and Poppy seeds as shown in the table below.
Notification No. 44/2011-Customs Whereas in the matter of import of Acetone (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under sub-heading 29141100 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, the Chinese Taipei (hereinafter referred to as the subject country) and imported into India, the designated authority vide its final findings, in notification No. 14/04/2006-DGAD, dated 4th January 2008 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section I, dated the 4th January, 2008 had come to the conclusion that
Notification No.43/2011-Customs Central Government, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of Government of India in the Ministry of Finance( Department of Revenue) No. 121/2006-Customs dated the 26th December, 2006, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide G.S.R.769 (E), dated the 26th December, 2006, namely:- In the said notification, in the Table, in column (2), for the figure ‘50079000’ wherever it occurs, the figure and words “50079010 or 50079090’’ shall be substituted.
Notification No. 36/2011 – Customs (N.T.) Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currency specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II annexed hereto into Indian currency or vice versa shall, with effect from 1st June, 2011 be the rate mentioned against it in the corresponding entry in column (3) thereof, for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods.
Notification No. 35/2011- Customs ( N.T.) AND WHEREAS such goods have been rendered liable to higher rate of duty of customs by virtue of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Civil appeal Nos.3224-3225 of 1998 with C.A.No.5716 of 1998 decided on the 12th February 2004, in the case of Meltex (India) Pvt. Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Central Excise, New Delhi, holding the process of metallisation of plastic film as not amounting to manufacture;
Notification No. 42 /2011-Customs , New Delhi dated the 25th May, 2011 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 51/2008-Customs, dated the 21st April, 2008 which was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 297 (E), dated the 21st April, 2008, namely:–
