Sugar
Directorate Release Order Not Required for Sugar Export under Advance
Authorisation
[DGFT Notification No. 15 dated 5th June
2013]
Subject: Export policy of sugar.
In exercise of the
powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development &
Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) read with Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade
Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government, with immediate effect, hereby makes
the following amendments in Chapter 17 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification
of Export and Import Items.
2. The existing
entries in Chapter 17 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and
Import Items are substituted as follows:
|
Chapter 17 Sugars and Sugar Confectionery |
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|
SNo. |
Tariff
Item HS Code |
Unit |
Item
Description |
Export
Policy |
Nature
of Restriction |
|
93 |
1701 00
00 |
Kg |
(a)
Sugar * |
Free |
Prior
registration of quantity with DGFT. |
|
Kg |
(b)
Preferential Quota Sugar to EU and USA |
STE |
Export
permitted through M/s. Indian Sugar Exim Corporation Limited subject to
quantitative ceiling notified by DGFT from time to time. |
||
*Export
of Pharmaceutical Grade Sugar [(i) Sucrose IP/BP/EP/USP/JP and (ii) Sucrose AR
& LR] and Specialty Sugar [(i) Sugar cubes (ii) Sugar sachets (white &
brown) (iii) Castor sugar (iv) Demerara sugar (v) Light brown sugar (vi) Icing
sugar (vii) Fondant icing sugar (viii) Kathali sugar (ix) Candy sugar (x)
Rainbow sugar (xi) Pearl sugar and (xii) Trimoline (invert sugar)] would not be
subject to registration requirement.
Export
Licensing Note of Chapter 17
Note
1
Deleted.
Note
2
Export
of 10,000 MTs of organic sugar, per annum will be permitted subject to
following conditions:
(i) The
sugar should be duly certified by APEDA as being organic sugar;
(ii) Export
contracts should be registered with APEDA, New Delhi prior to shipment;
(iii) Exports
shall be allowed only from Customs EDI Ports.
3. Effect of this notification:
Export
of sugar under Advance Authorization would not require Release Order from
Directorate of Sugar. There is no change in other conditions relating to export
of sugar.