The Director General of Foreign
Trade (DGFT) has issued the notification import of chemicals listed at Category
1A, 1B & 1C of Appendix 3 (SCOMET list) to Schedule 2 of ITC (HS). The
notification makes it mandatory for the importers of chemicals listed at
Category 1A, 1B & 1C of Appendix 3 (SCOMET list) to Schedule 2 of ITC (HS)
Classification of Export and Import Items to notify the details of such imports
to DGFT, NACWC and Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals within 30 days
from the date of their importation.
The text of notification is as
below:-
(To be published in
the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section – 3, Sub-Section ii)
Government of India
Ministry of Commerce
& Industry
Department of
Commerce
Udyog Bhawan
Notification No. 98
(RE – 2013)/2009-2014
New Delhi, Dated: 19
November, 2014
Subject: – Import Policy of
Scheduled Chemicals.
S.O. (E) In exercise of powers
conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act,
1992 (No. 22 of 1992), as amended, read with Para 1.3 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government
hereby stipulates the following condition for import of scheduled chemicals:
“Import of chemicals listed at
Category 1A, 1B & 1C of Appendix 3 (SCOMET list) to Schedule 2 of ITC (HS)
Classification of Export and Import Items is subject to the condition that for
each import consignment, the importer shall, within 30 days of imports, notify
the details of import to Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), National
Authority, Chemical Weapons Convention (NACWC) and Department of Chemicals and
Petrochemicals”.
2. Effect of this
notification:
The notification makes it
mandatory for the importers of chemicals listed at Category 1A, 1B & 1C of
Appendix 3 (SCOMET list) to Schedule 2 of ITC (HS) Classification of Export and
Import Items to notify the details of such imports to DGFT, NACWC and
Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals within 30 days from the date of
their importation.
Sd/-
(Pravir Kumar)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail: dgft[at]nic[dot]in
[Issued from File No. 01/89/180/13/AM15/PC-II(A)]
