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The Finance Act, 2018 had inserted provisions under the Customs Act, 1962 to provide for the issuance of a supplementary notice under circumstances and manner as may be prescribed. In this regard, the Customs (Supplementary Notice) Regulations, 2019 has been enacted that would be effective from 18^th Jun ’19.

Applicability

The said regulations shall apply to the notices issued:

1. For recovery of duties or interest, not levied or not paid or short levied or short paid or...

CBIC through its circular No 35/2018 dated 1^st Oct ’18 provided an advisory for registration of the beneficiaries. Single Window Interface for facilitating Trade (SWIFT) was introduced as part of ease of doing business initiative to integrate Customs and other Participating Government Agencies (PGAs) for seamless processing of import and export clearances. 

One of the components of SWIFT is e – SANCHIT wherein, under the import side, the system allows the beneficiary importer to...

1. RATE OF EXCHANGE OF CONVERSION INTO INDIAN CURRENCY

OR VICE VERSA WITH EFFECT FROM 3^rd MAY, 2019 TO 16^th MAY 2019

(Notification No. 35/2019-Customs (N.T) dated 02.05.2019)

With effect from 3^rd May, 2019, the CBIC has fixed the rate of exchange for conversion of each of the foreign currencies mentioned below, relating to imported and export goods, for computation of Customs Duty as per section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962.

Schedule - I

Introduction

SEIS [ Services Export Incentive Scheme] is one of the export incentive scheme of  DGFT in chapter 3 of Free Trade Policy 2015-20 of India. This scheme aims to incentivize service exporters of India with the objective to encourage and maximize export of notified services from India. A large number of service providers have not been claiming this benefit due to either lack of awareness or have doubts on it being sanctioned easily. It is available in normal course in most...

1.Application fee for grant of import authorization [Trade Notice No.22/2018 dated 11.12.2017]:  

Said Trade Notice was issued to state that the application fee as prescribed in Appendix 2K of FTP2015-20 is the processing fee and the importers are required to submit their import authorisation applications at the Regional Authority along with the prescribed fee and simultaneously at DGFT(HQ). The importers shall note that the application for grant of import licence may only be...

Validity of Duty Credit Scripts [Public Notice 33/2015-20 dated 23/10/2017]:  

Duty Credit Scripts would be valid for a period of 18 months from the date of issue and must be valid on the date on which actual debit of duty is made.  

Further, Duty Credit Scripts issued on or after 01.01.2016 under chapter 3 would be valid for a period of 24 months from the date of issue and must be valid on the date on which actual debit of duty is made.  

Onetime condo nation of time period...

Amendments to Hand Book of Procedures 2015-20: Public Notice 26/2015-2020 dated 20th  

September, 2017 -  

a) Para 4.06 of chapter 4 of HBP 2015-2020:  

1. In case where norms have not been notified or where applicant wants to get the ad-hoc norms fixed before making an application for Advance Authorisation, application in ANF 4B, along with prescribed documents, shall be uploaded online to concerned Norms Committee (NC) in DGFT headquarters for fixation of...