In continuation of the earlier Instruction dated 17th March, 2011 on the subject matter, it is to intimate that following two laboratories have been granted accreditation by FSSAI for testing for radioactive contamination of food items imported from Japan besides BRIT, Navi Mumbai (copy enclosed): Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, 19, University Road, New Delhi-110007. Monarch Biotech Private Limited, 37A-SIDCO Industrial Estate, Thrumazhisai, Chennai-602107
As and when Customs (CBEC) have conveyed their readiness to implement on-line message exchange between Customs and DGFT, Policy Circulars have been issued from time to time by DGFT indicating the names and Port Codes of such Customs Ports where EDI facility would be available. Such Policy Circulars are listed below:
Govt of India has notified the new rate for interest for Employee Provident Fund (EPF) for Financial year 2010-11. New rate is 9.5% for financial year 2010-11. Notification in this regard is reproduced hereunder.
Notification No. 15/2011- Income Tax The Directorate of Income-tax (Expenditure Budget) will act as the Nodal Authority in respect of all Budget matters for the Grant No. 42 Direct Taxes and will perform all work related to the management of Expenditure Budget under this grant which inter alia, include: (i) to issue the Budget Circular as prescribed by Budget Division, Department of Economic Affairs; (ii) to examine the budget proposals received from the various constituent formations/units/under the grant. (iii) to consolidate the budget proposals received from the various constituents formations/units at each stage of the Budget exercise i.e. Budget Estimate (BE), Revised Estimate (RE) and Final Requirement (FR) and submit the same to FA (Finance) for further action;
Export Items: Existing description: Non-Alloy Steel Bars & Rods (including rounds, flats, hexagons, octagons, wire rods, cold twisted deformed bars, thermomechanically treated reinforcing bars etc.) Angles, shapes and sections (including beam, joists, channels, special profiles etc.), Plates/ Sheets / Strips/Wide coils, Blooms / Billets / Slabs/ Ingots……1000 kgs Modified description: Non-Alloy Steel Ingots/Blooms / Billets / Slabs…1000 kgs.
Circular No. 15 /2011-Customs – Representations have been received from some industry association on behalf of software dealers about difficulties being expressed in the assessment to customs duty of documents of title for IT software or documents that enable the transfer of the right to use such software at the time of its sale. It has been reported that there are frequent imports of such documents without any accompanying software. Such packages do not contain software but consist of paper licenses or PUK (Personal Unlocking Key, usually in the form of a scratch card of paper board or plastic) that are used to convey the right to use such IT software. The software in these cases could be freely downloadable or loaded by the OEM supplier under an arrangement with the software company as pre-loaded trial version of software on the computer system requiring the customer to purchase license or PUK after the trial period. Typically these licenses are used either to authorize additional uses against a sale of IT software that has already taken place in the past or to service transactions where the connected software is downloaded electronically by the customer. It has been pointed out that some of the field formations are insisting on the classification of such documents, even when imported without the packaged software, under CTH 8523 i.e. the heading applicable to IT software. It has also been represented that in certain cases the entire value of the license representing the right to use such IT software is sought to be loaded to the value of past imports of IT software by the importer.
the Central Government hereby delegates to the Regional Directors at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Noida and Ahemdabad, the powers and functions of the Central Government under the following provisions of the said Act, namely:- Section 22, Sub-sections (3),(4),(7) and clause (a) of sub-section (8) of section 224, Section 297 (1) Proviso, Section 394-A, Section 400, Second proviso to sub-section (5) of section 439 and sub-section (6) of the said section, Clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 496, Clause (a) sub-section (1) of section 508, Sub-section (1) of section 551, Clause (b) of sub-section (7) of section 555 and the proviso to clause (a) of subsection (9) of the said section, Provisos to sub-section (1) of section 610, and Section 627.
No.R-11018/I/2010.SS-II The undersigned is directed to refer to CPFC’s 130 Not( No.Invst.1/3(2)/133/1011/R.011205 dated 13-10-2010 on the subject mentioned above and to convey the approval of the Central Government under para 60(1) of the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952 to crediting of interest ( 9.5% for the year 2010-11 to the account of each member of the Scheme on the condition that the 4.72 crore Member accounts should be updated within a period of six months and if any shortfall in Interest Suspense Account is noticed, then the same should be adjusted in the interest rate to be fixed for the next year (2011-12),
Notification No 34(RE – 2010)/2009-2014,- The government has slashed the minimum export price (MEP) of onion for the third time this month to USD 275 per tonne from the earlier price of USD 350 per tonne. “MEP of onions other than Bangalore Rose Onions and Krishnapuram onions will be USD 275 per metric tonne FOB (freight-on-board),” the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a notification.
In exercise of the powers conferred sub-section (1) of section 620 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India erstwhile Ministry of Law and Justice and Company Affairs (Department of Company Affairs) number, SRO 355, dated the 7th January, 1957, namely :- In the said notification, in paragraph (2), sub-paragraph (i) shall be omitted. This notification shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
