Thirteen Foreign Post Offices Notified for Customs Clearances for both Imports and Exports

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[Customs Notification 31 (Non Tariff) dated 31st March 2017]

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the post offices mentioned in column (3) of the Table below, situated in the State or, as the case may be, the Union territory, specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, to be foreign post offices for the purposes of clearance of imported goods or export goods.

Table

Sl. No.

State or Union territory

Name of post office

(1)

(2)

(3)

1

Andhra Pradesh

(i) Foreign Post Office, Vijayawada;

(ii) Foreign Post Office, Hyderabad.

2

Assam

Foreign Post Office, Guwahati.

3

Delhi

Foreign Post Office, New Delhi.

4

Gujarat

Foreign Post office, Ahmedabad.

5

Jammu and Kashmir

(i) Foreign Post Office, Srinagar;

(ii) Foreign Post Office, Leh.

6

Karnataka

Foreign Post Office, Bengaluru.

7

Kerala

Foreign Post Office, Kochi.

8

Maharashtra

(i) Foreign Post Office Mumbai;

(ii) Air Parcel Sorting Office, Mumbai.

9

Punjab

Foreign Post Office, Ludhiana.

10

Rajasthan

Foreign Post Office Jaipur.

11

Tamil Nadu

(i) Foreign Post Office (Air), Chennai;

(ii) Foreign Post Office (Sea), Chennai.

12

Uttar Pradesh

(i) Foreign Post Office, Kanpur;

(ii) Foreign Post Office, Agra;

(iii) Foreign Post Office, Varanasi.

13

West Bengal

Foreign Post Office, Kolkata.

[F.No 476/03/2016-LC]

[Customs Notification No. 30 (Non Tariff) dated 31st March 2016]

In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 63/94 -Customs (NT), dated the 21st November, 1994, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number S.O. 830 (E), dated the 21st November, 1994, namely:-

In the said notification, in the Table, serial number 8 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted.

[F. No. 476/03/2016- LC]