It has been brought to the notice of the Board that the Customs Commissionerate, Pune has recently detected a case of Customs Duty evasion of over Rs. 27 crores by M/s HPCL, Loni, Pune, who receive petroleum products like HSD, Kerosene, etc. from M/s IOC through pipeline from Mumbai to Pune. It was found that the price declared by M/s IOC at Mumbai in the warehousing bill of entry
Circular No. 442/8/99-CX I am directed to refer to Notification No. 8/97-CE dated 1.3.97 which exempts the finished products, rejects and waste or scrap, produced of manufactured in a 100% EOU or FTZ wholly from raw-materials produced or manufactured in India, and allowed to be sold in India, from so much of duty of excise leviable thereon under Section 3 of the Central Excise Act on like goods produced or manufactured in India other than in 100% EOU or a FTZ ,
I am directed to invite your attention to a number of cases which have been detected at various Customs stations wherein drawback was claimed fraudulently by filling drawback claims for which no export had actually been made. ADO letter F.No. 009/430/98-DBK dated 30.10.1998 has already been issued to all Chief Commissioner and Commissioner of Customs listing out measures to prevent
In this connection it is clarified that overall ban on export of onion still continues despite the partial lifting of ban on export of Bangalore Rose onion, Krishnapuram onion and export of 3000MTs of all varieties of onion to Sri Lanka through NAFED as also permission to export of 25,000 MTs per month of onions for the next three months through the agency to be designated by the Government of Maharashtra or by the Associate Shippers registered with the Maharashtra Government designated agency.
It is therefore, clarified that as per S.No. 16 of Schedule 2 Appendix 1 of the book titled ” ITC(HS) Classifications of Export and Import Items, 1997-2002, ” export of onion as a part of assorted vegetables is allowed freely upto twenty kg. only per consignment by air to all permissible destinations subject to any other law for the time being in force despite the continuing restriction on the export of onions.
Circular No. 441/7/99-CX I am directed to refer to Notification No. 7/99-CE(NT) dated 9/2/1999 issued to amend Modvat Rules. The aforesaid notification has been issued to insert sub-rule (11) in Rule 57G and sub-rule(13) in Rule 57T of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 so as to empower the Assistant commissioner of Central Excise having jurisdiction over the factory of the manufacturer to allow credit of duty paid on inputs/capital goods ignoring minor procedural lapses in falling the declaration or the invoice/document based on which credit is to be taken.
It has been decided that holders of Advance licences with natural rubber as one of the inputs shall procure their requirement of natural rubber from STC only. Accordingly all the licensing authorities are advised that henceforth while issuing any advance license, as per policy, with natural rubber as one of the import item, they shall first invalidate the advance licence for direct import of natural rubber and thereafter shall issue ARO for procurement of natural rubber from STC of India Ltd. at or below international price.
I am directed to refer to Notification No. 84/97-Cus dated 11th November, 1997 which exempts goods impored into India by the United Nations or an International Organisation for execution of the projects financed by these agencies from the duty of customs, Additional Customs Duty and special custom duty. Some difficulties have been expressed by project authorities under different
Reference as well as representations have been received in the Board regarding admissibility of made ups made out of yarn dyed fabrics for DEPB credit
The matter has been examined in the light of Notification No. 12/99-CUSTOMS dated 1.2.1999 issued by Department of Revenue. It has now been decided that the Designated Authorities of Pass Book Scheme and Commissioner of Customs must finalize the claims and grant credits, wherever admissible, positively by 31.3.1999. The credits granted under the Pass Books can be utilized on or before 30.6.1999 and the unutilised credit shall lapse .
