Now, in addition to ports/ICDs notified by DGFT from time to time, export of finished leather, Wet Blue and EI Tanned Leather would also be permitted through ICD at Kheda by utilising the facilities regarding drawal of samples and its testing and certification available at the Regional Centre of CLRI at Ahmedabad on call basis.
Circular No. 01/2016-Customs Duty Board has now decided that the facility of 24×7 Customs clearance for specified imports viz. goods covered by ‘facilitated’ Bills of Entry and specified exports viz. factory stuffed containers and goods exported under free Shipping Bills will be made available at Krishnapatnam Sea port in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. This would be the 19th Sea port in the country where 24×7 facility would be in operation.
Notification No. 2/2016-Customs – connection with petroleum operations undertaken under specified contracts under the Marginal Field Policy (MFP).
Public Notice No. 54/2015-2020 The branch office of M/s Indian Industries Association at New Delhi is enlisted under Appendix 2E of FTP, 2015-2020 for issuing Certificate of Origin (Non-Preferential).
Public Notice No. 53/2015-2020 When an IEC holder seeks modification/change of Branch Office/Head Office/Registered Office address in its IEC and which involves a shift in its jurisdictional RA, a request to that effect will have to be made to the new RA to whose jurisdiction the applicant is shifting its Office. A copy of this request with application details is to be submitted to the old RA from where the original IEC was issued.
Notification No. 01/2016-Customs (N.T.) These regulations may be called the Customs Brokers Licensing (Amendment) Regulations, 2016. In the said Regulations, in regulation 5, in clause (f), in sub-clause (ii), for the letters, CA/MBA/LLB, the letters CA/MBA/LLB/ACMA/FCMA shall be substituted.
No.4(4)/E.Coord/2015 In order to regulate foreign visits of Government of India officers and delegations and to make these visits more effective, the existing sets of guidelines/instructions on the subject have been comprehensively reviewed. The revised guidelines, as follows, are hereby circulated for strict compliance by all Ministries/Departments:-
In suppression of the earlier Public Notice no. 13/2015-2020 dated 22.05.2015, the dates for implementation of Track and Trace system for export of drug formulations alongwith maintaining the Parent-Child relationship in packaging have been extended to 01.04.2016 for non SSI manufactured drugs and to 01.04.2017 for SSI manufactured drugs.
NOTIFICATION NO. 1/2016-Export duty on Iron ore pellets reduced to Nil rate from 5% – Customs Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 27/2011-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 153(E), dated the 1st March, 2011, namely :-
In recent times, the use of Social Media has become widespread in various organizations including Government Ministries and Departments for public relations and communication. Keeping with the stated endeavour of the Department to induct state-of-the-art and green technology with a user friendly interface, the Department is extending its external communication to Social Media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
