Handbook Para Amended for New Listed STEs for Allocation of Quota for Import under the Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) for Dairy Products, Maize, and Edible Oil Import

[DGFT Public Notice No. 41/2015-2020 dated 8^th December 2022]

Effect of this Public Notice: Para 2.61 of the Hand Book of Procedure (HBP) 2015-20 has been amended with respect to DGFT Public Notice No. 40/2015-20 dated 08.12.2022. Subsequent to de-notifying 4 Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) i.e., MMTC, The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd. (STC), PEC Limited and STCL Limited as STE under FTP - 2015-20, the aforementioned entities are not eligible for allocation of quota.

Subject: Amendment in Para 2.61 of Hand Book of Procedure (HBP) 2015-20.

In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 1.03 and 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), 2015-2020, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby amends Para 2.61 (a), (b) and (c) of the Hand Book of Procedure (HBP) 2015-20.

2. As per the revised Appendix 2J notified, vide DGFT Public Notice No. 40/2015-20 dated 08.12.2022, the revised Para 2.61 (a), (b) and (c) of the HBP) 2015-20 reads as under:

"2.61 Eligible entities for allocation of quota

(a) Milk Powder (Tariff Code No. 0402.10 or 0402.21) and White Butter, Butter oil, Anhydrous Milk Fat (0405): National Dairy Development Board (NODS), National Cooperative Dairy Federation (NCDF) and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED).

(b) Maize (corn) (Tariff Code No. 1005.90): National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) and State Cooperative Marketing Federations .

(c) Crude sunflower seed or safflower oil or fractions thereof (Tariff Code No. 1512.11) and Refined rape, colza, canola or mustard oil, other (Tariff Code No. 1514.19 or 1514.99): National Dairy Development Board (NODS), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) and Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), State Cooperative Marketing Federation & State Cooperative Civil Supplies Corporation ".

[Issued from File No. 01/89/180/Misc-37/AM/PC-2[A]/Part-V/E-25648]