It has been decided to dispense with the requirement of submitting request in Form A-1 to the AD Category –I Banks for making payments towards imports into India. AD Category –I may however, need to obtain all the requisite details from the importers and satisfy itself about the bonafides of the transactions before effecting the remittance.
It has been brought to the notice of the Board by certain Investigation Directorates that some of the Commissioners are not providing manpower to the Investigation Directorates for the purposes of conducting searches for one reason or the other.
The Government considered representations and feedback related to the All Industry Rates (AIR) of Duty Drawback that were made effective from 22.11.2014 and has notified certain amendments effective from 13.02.2015 vide Notification Nos. 20/2015-Customs (N.T.) and 21/2015-Customs (N.T.), both dated 10.02.2015
In continuation to the General Circular No. 42/2014, the last date of filing of Form CRA-2 without any penalty/late fee is hereby extended upto 31st March, 2015.
(iv) in CHAPTER – 61, after the Tariff item 61140406 and the entries relating thereto, the following Tariff item and entries shall be inserted (v) in CHAPTER – 62, after the Tariff item 62110407 and the entries relating thereto, the following Tariff item and entries shall be inserted (vi) in CHAPTER – 64, after Tariff item 640617 and the entries relating thereto, the following Tariff items and entries shall be inserted
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 75 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and section 93A read with section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government
whose respective jurisdictions are specified in Table III(A) and III(B) of the notification no 27/2014- Central Excise (N.T) dated the 16th September, 2014 , published vide number G.S.R. 651(E), dated the 16th September, 2014, for exercising the powers of the Central Board of Excise and Customs and for the purposes of assigning the cases for adjudication of show cause notices, delegated vide notification number 11/2007 – Central Excise (N.T) dated the 1st March, 2007, published vide number G.S.R. 151(E), dated the 1st March, 2007
A new format for issue of IEC numbers in electronic form i.e. e-IEC, based on online applications, is being introduced as Appendix 18B-1. Further, it is notified that decision regarding grant or refusal of IEC will be conveyed to the applicant through sms and system generated letter, on the registered email address of the applicant.
Shri Rajeev Kumar Agarwal, Whole Time Member, SEBI, has passed an Order on February 09, 2015 providing the exit to Bhubaneswar Stock Exchange Limited (BhSE). BhSE is the tenth Stock Exchange to exit under this policy.
Attention is invited to Notification no 38/2001 – C.E (N.T) dt 26-6-2001 as amended from time to time whereby the officers of various ranks of Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence have been appointed by the Board as the officers of Central Excise of the corresponding ranks for exercise of all powers under the Central Excise Act, 1944 and rules made thereunder, throughout the territory of India.
