As per the extant guidelines, developers of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) are allowed to avail of External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) under the approval route for providing infrastructure facilities, as defined under the extant ECB policy within the SEZ. Keeping in view the infrastructural needs of the proposed National Manufacturing Investment Zones (NMIZs), it has now been decided to allow developers of NMIZ also to avail of ECB under the “approval route” for providing infrastructure facilities, as defined under the extant ECB policy within the NMIZ. The details are given vide the A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 85 dated February 29, 2012.
The Reserve Bank of India had issued guidelines to all AD Category-I banks for compilation of R-Returns and reporting under the Foreign Exchange Transactions – Electronic Reporting System (FETERS). On further review, the Reserve Bank has advised the AD Category-I banks about the following changes in reporting of R-Returns under FETERS from the next financial year (i.e., transactions taking place from April 1, 2012) :
There could be some supportive documents which an applicant would like to submit. These can be scanned and uploaded. The system has provision to upload up to 5 documents of 300 KB each in gif, html and pdf formats. Further, if required, additional documents may also be submitted by post to ‘The Foreign Trade Development Officer (PRC Section)’, 5th Floor, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-110011 or can be scanned and e-mailed to prc@nic.in., quoting the reference number as at (iv) above.
Policy Circular No. 9 dated 30.6.2003 and Policy Circular No 15 dated 17.9.2003 prescribe exemption from the registration procedure for imports of approved and unapproved drugs under Advance Authorisation. The issue whether Erythromycin Thiocyanate falls under the purview of these Circulars or not, has been examined in consultation with the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).
Circular No. Cir/IMD/DF/7/2012 , Dated- February 28, 2012 It is hereby clarified that the due diligence of distributors is solely the responsibility of mutual funds/AMCs. This responsibility shall not be delegated to any agency. However, mutual funds/AMCs may take assistance of an agency of repute while carrying out due diligence process of distributors.
Amendments to SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 1. Please find enclosed a copy of the gazette notification No. LAD-NRO/GN/201 1-12/38/4290 dated February 21, 2012 pertaining to Securities and Exchange Board of India (Mutual Funds) (Amendment) Regulations, 2012 for your information and implementation.
CIRCULAR No. MRD/DP/8/2012, dated 27-2-2012 This has reference to SEBI circular No. MRD/DP/05/2012, dated February 1, 2012 and MRD/DP/07/2012, dated February 23, 2012, on the subject. 2. It is clarified that the contents of the advertisement, if any, to be issued in terms of Para 4(a) of the aforementioned circular dated February 1, 2012, shall be restricted to the contents of the notice as given to the stock exchange under Para 5(b) of the said circular.
The maximum tenor of gold loan was notified as 240 days consisting of 60 days for manufacture and exports +180 days for fixing the price and repayment of gold loan as per the Foreign Trade Policy 2004-2009 of the Government of India and that the tenor of the Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC), for import of gold on loan basis, where ever required, should be in line with the aforesaid tenor of gold loan. Now for further facilitation of exports in the sector, the stipulation under para 4A 23.2 and para 4A 23.3 of the Hand Book of Procedures (HBP) Vol. I of the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2009-14 has been revised and the maximum tenor of gold loan has now become 270 days as at present (i.e. 90 days for manufacture and export + 180 days for fixing the price and repayment).
As per the provisions of section 61 of MVAT Act, 2002 the dealers covered under this section are liable to submit Audit Report in Form 704. Alongwith Form 704, details of the customer-wise sales and customer-wise purchases are also submitted in annexure Jl and J2 with other requisite details. However, for the dealers who are not required to file Audit Report in Form 704 there was no provision to seek the information about the customer-wise sales and purchases and also other details. The information about the latter category of dealers were not available with the department. As a result of this, it was difficult to cross check the input tax credit in respect of the dealers claiming refunds. In order to mitigate this problem and to ensure speedy processing of refund claims and to expedite the cross check of input claims, it is felt necessary to prescribe information similar to Form 704 for dealers not liable to file Audit Report. Accordingly amendments have been made to rule 17 and rule 18.
Under Para 8.2 (c) of Foreign Trade Policy, Capital Goods can be procured indigenously upon invalidating an EPCG Authorization. However, domestically procured Capital Goods cannot be treated as ‘imported Capital Goods’ and hence the facility of Para 5.2A of Foreign Trade Policy cannot be allowed for such Capital Goods sourced domestically after invalidating EPCG Authorization.
