With a view to further liberalising the procedure and as the Working Group structure has been dismantled, it has been decided to withdraw the limit of USD 20 million for Buyer’s credit which may be extended to foreign buyers in connection with export of goods on deferred payment terms and turn key projects from India.
The default rule is that any two documents, out of those listed in paragraphs of the Master Circulars mentioned above, should be provided as activity proof by a proprietary concern. However, in cases where the banks are satisfied that it is not possible to furnish two such documents, they would have the discretion to accept only one of those documents as activity proof.
Circular No. 11/2015 – Customs Dated 1st April, 2015 The Ministry has considered the issue of increased interest cost for authorization holders (AH) who come forward to the Regional Authority (RA) of DGFT for regularization of their cases of bona fide default in export obligation (EO) under the Advance Authorization or EPCG Schemes but have to wait for the detailed calculations in this regard before being able to deposit the duty involved.
Presently, FPIs can take position – both long (bought) as well as short(sold) – in foreign currency up to USD 10 million or equivalent per exchange . As a measure of further liberalisation, it has now been decided to increase the limit (long as well as short) for FPIs in USD-INR pair upto USD 15 million per exchange
Presently, domestic participants are allowed to take a long (bought) as well as short (sold) position upto USD 10 million per exchange. As a measure of further liberalisation, it has now been decided to increase the limit (long as well as short) in USD-INR pair upto USD 15 million per exchange. In addition, domestic participants shall be allowed to take long as well as short positions in EUR-INR, GBP-INR and JPY-INR pairs, all put together, upto USD 5 million equivalent per exchange. These limits shall be monitored by the exchanges and breaches, if any, may be reported.
Circular No. 10/2015-Customs The Government has prioritized trade facilitation and creating an environment for ease of doing business. In this direction several initiatives have been taken in the recent past to simplify Customs procedures and enhance the use of automation in business processes with resultant reduction in transaction costs and dwell time associated with the Customs clearance of imported and export goods.
Circular No. 09/2015-Cus Dated the 31st March, 2015 Hon’ble Finance Minister in the Budget, 2014 made an announcement to implement ‘Indian Customs Single Window Project’ to facilitate trade. This project envisages that the importers and exporters would electronically lodge their Customs clearance documents at a single point only with the Customs.
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by first proviso to sub-rule (3) of Rule 4 of Central Sales Tax (Delhi) Rules, 2005 I, Sanjeev Khirwar, Commissioner, Value Added Tax, do hereby allow to file Form 9 for the year 2013-14, prescribed under the said Rules upto 30th June, 2015.
Stakeholders have sought clarifications as to whether amounts received by private companies from their members, directors or their relatives prior to 1st April, 2014 shall be considered as deposits under the Companies Act, 2013 as such amounts were not treated as ‘deposits’ under section 58A of the Companies Act, 1956 and rules made thereunder.
The Reserve Bank of India has issued instructions vide RBI/2014-15/515 dated March 25, 2015 wherein it has been decided that all agency banks shall keep the counters of their designated branches conducting government business open for full day on March 30, 2015, and till 8.00 p.m. on March 31, 2015. All electronic transactions would, however, continue till midnight of March 31, 2015.
