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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...
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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...
Kind attention is invited to Ministry’s letter F.No. 384/ 945/ 85-AU dated 24.7.87, copy of which is enclosed for reference, wherein the opinion of the them Attorney General, on the above mentioned subject, was circulated to All Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise, for appropriate action
In terms of Sl. No. 1 to Notification No. 148/94-Cus. dated 13/7/97, foodstuffs, medicines, medical stores of perishable nature, clothing and blankets imported by a charitable organisation, as free gift, are exempted from payment of Customs duty subject to condition mentioned therein. Clause (v) of the said condition requires the importer to furnish undertaking to the Asst. Commissioner
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts articles imported into India, against an Advance Licence from whole of the Anti-Dumping duty leviable thereon under section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), subject to the condition that exempt article shall not be disposed of or utilised in any manner except for utilisation in discharge of export obligation or for replenishment of article so utilised and the article so replenished shall not be sold or transferred to any other person.
Whereas in the matter of import of Bisphenol-A falling under sub-heading No. 2907.23 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and which is of United States of America origin, the designated authority vide its preliminary findings, published in Part I, Section 1 of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated the 25th October, 1996, had come to the conclusion.
A new Duty Entitlement Pass-book Scheme has been introduced in Chapter 7 of the new Export and Import policy for the period 1997-2002. The scheme substitutes Value Based Advance Licensing Scheme as well as Pass-book Scheme of the earlier EXIM policy. A new Notification No. 34/ 97- Cus1 dated 7.4.97 has been issued to give effect to this Scheme. Copy of the notification is enclosed for
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act,1962 (52 of 1962) the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts materials required for the manufacture of the final goods when imported into India, from whole of the duty of Customs leviable thereon, under the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), and from the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, subject to the following conditions.
I am directed to refer to this Department’s Circular F.No. 462/36/80-Cus. V dated 17.2.83, and to state that in the issue regarding disposal of damaged foodstuff imported under the Indo-Care Agreement and World Food Programme assistance for supplementary Nutrition Programme in India, which are found unfit for human consumption, it has been reiterated by the Board that the benefit of
Reference is invited to Board’s instruction issued vide letter of even number dated 22.9.1994 whereby the rate of depreciation was prescribed @5% per quarter for first 2 years and 4% per quarter for next 2 year subject to maximum of 70%.
Where the importer does not claim exemption from the additional duty of customs leviable under section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), he shall be deemed not to have availed the exemption from the duty specified in the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act for the purpose of calculation of the said additional duty of customs.
that the goods so imported, including resultant products, are re- exported to the supplier of the goods or to any other person which the said supplier may specify within six months from the date of clearance or within such extended period as the [Assistant Commissioner of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs] may allow
