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Custom Duty : The India–Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement became operational on 1 June 2026 after completion of required proce...
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Custom Duty : New baggage rules and processing regulations are notified, replacing earlier frameworks and aligning customs procedures for passen...
Custom Duty : CAAR classified complete prosthetic joints as artificial joints and held the imported implants ineligible for exemption under Noti...
Custom Duty : CAAR held ITC (HS) code matching is not mandatory for DFIA imports if goods match DFIA description and satisfy Notification 25/202...
Custom Duty : CAAR ruled that matching ITC (HS) codes is unnecessary if imported goods match the DFIA description and comply with quantity and v...
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Custom Duty : CBIC has introduced a uniform Deficiency Memo format for Section 74 drawback claims, standardizing document requirements and claim...
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Custom Duty : CBIC has directed provisional assessment of Insoluble Sulphur imports from China while the anti-absorption review remains pending....
Custom Duty : CBIC has clarified that drawback under Section 74 and refund under Section 27 cannot be paid in cash where import duty was dischar...
Custom Duty : CBIC notifies India-UK trade agreement origin rules from 15 July 2026, prescribing origin criteria, QVC tests and preferential tar...
Representations have been received in the Board from Trade and Industry Associations requesting to extend the benefit of ACP scheme to the category of status holders like Export Houses, Star Export Houses, Star Trading Houses etc. Requests have also been made to relax the criteria prescribed vide Board’s Circular No.42/2005-Customs dated 24.11.2005 regarding eligibility for grant of ACP status in cases booked in respect of Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax issues so that purely technical cases should not become a disqualification.
The government today said curbs on cotton exports and the Rs 2,500 per tonne duty on the shipments of the natural fibre would go from October 1. “Cotton exports on Open General Licence (OGL) will be allowed from October 1, which means unrestricted and free exports of cotton. (Also) there will be no export tax on cotton,”
DGFT have subsequently issued a Public Notice No.38/2009-2014 dated 3.2.2010 and also a Policy Circular No.22/2009-14 dated 3.2.2010 for extending the validity of Duty Credit Scrips. Accordingly, concerned Commissionerates of Customs are required to issue a consolidated certificate indicating total amount sanctioned as refund (4% CVD). As per Public Notice,
Notification No. 76/2010-CUSTOMS (N. T.), New Delhi, 13th August, 2010 – 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,
OC CWG or Prasar Bharti, as the case may be, will apply to Customs for NOC/Permission to amend the import documents viz. IGM and Bill of Lading/Airway Bill to include itself as the importer in place of the contractors/vendors/sub-vendors. This application will be accompanied by a NOC from the importer on record i.e. contractors/vendors/sub-vendors of OC CWG/ PrasarBharti as the case may be.
India will impose a 10 per cent import tax on power equipment for big projects within weeks to help level the playing field between domestic and foreign firms jostling in what may soon be the world’s biggest market. The tax would reverse a policy of zero import duty on equipment for mega projects introduced to meet India’s urgent capacity shortages, said Arun Maira, a member of the government’s Planning Commission who led a committee on equipment imports.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 157 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Courier Imports and Exports (Clearance) Regulations, 1998, namely :-
Notification No.70 / 2010-Customs (N.T.) the Commissioner of Customs (Export), New Customs House, Mumbai, for the purposes of adjudicating the matters relating to Show Cause Notice issued to M/s. Frost International Limited, 402, Kalpana Plaza, 24/147B, Birhana Road, Kanpur and others, vide F.No. DRI/GRU/INV-01/09-10.Pt.II dated 25th May, 2010 by the Additional Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Ahmedabad Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad.
It has been reported that Customs is insisting that the Courier Companies Produce an authorization from the recipient of the gifts before allowing clearance, which is causing delays and hardship to individuals.
84 Goods specified against S. No. 270 A of the Table annexed to notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 21/2002-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2002 [G.S.R. 118 (E), dated the 1st March, 2002]
