Steel Products QC Order Implementation Extended to 1 Oct 2013 for Sensitive Goods

[Ministry of Steel Order dated 28^th March 2013]

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), the Central Government, after consulting the Bureau of Indian Standards, hereby makes the following order further to amend the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Second Order) 2012, namely:-

1. (1) This order may be called the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Second (Third Amendment) Order, 2013.

(2) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Second Order, 2012, for the Schedule, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely:

“Schedule [See paragraph 2(f) and 3)] List of steel products under mandatory Bureau of Indian Standards certification
	Standard number	Title	ITC (HS) Code	Date of coming into force of the product in the standard to the extent given below
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
				(A) Product	(B) With effect from
1.	2002	Steel plates for pressure vessels for intermediate and high temperature service including boilers	72085110 72085120 72085210 72085220 72111300 72111420 72111490 72119011 72119090	(a) Plates of thickness more than 80 mm in Ultrasonic Tested condition; (b) Plates of thickness less than 16 mm but width more than 3500 mm;	1^st October, 2013
				(c) for other products excluding (a) and (b) above	12^th September, 2012
2.	2041	Steel plates for pressure vessels used at moderate and low temperature	72085110 72085120 72085210 72085220 72111300 72111420 72111490 72119090	(a) Plates of thickness more than 80 mm in Ultrasonic Tested condition; (b) Plates of thickness less than 16 mm but width more than 3500 mm;	1^st October, 2013
				(c) for other products excluding (a) and (b) above	12^th September, 2012
3.	2830	Carbon steel cast billet ingots, billets, blooms and slabs for re-rolling into steel for general structural purposes	72061090 72071190 72071290 72071920 72071990	All products	12^th September, 2012
4.	2831	Carbon steel cast billet ingots, billets, blooms and slabs for re-rolling into low tensile structural steel	72061090 72071190 72071290 72071920 72071990 72072090	All products	1^st October, 2013
5.	1786	High strength deformed steel bars and wires for concrete reinforcement (8 mm and above)	72131090 72142090	(a) High strength deformed steel bars and wires of size below 12 mm	1^st October, 2013
				(b) High Strength deformed steel bars and wires of sizes between 12 mm and below 16mm	31^st March, 2013
				(c) for other products excluding (a) & (b) above	12^th September, 2012
6.	648	Cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel sheet and strip - fully processed type (CRNO)	72251920 72261920	(a) Cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel sheets and strips with Watt loss not exceeding 5.3 Watt/Kg (at 1.5 Tesla/50 Hz)	1^st October, 2013
				(b) For other products excluding (a) above	12^th September, 2012
7.	3024	Grain oriented electrical steel and strip (CRGO)	72251100 72261100	All products	1^st October, 2013
8.	15391	Cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel sheet and strip - semi-processed type (CRNO)	72251920 72261920 72091720 72091730 72091790 72092720 72092730 72092790	All products	12^th September, 2012
9.	2062	Hot rolled medium and high tensile structural steel (excluding bars and rods of diameter or thickness less than 6 mm and structural below 50 mm X 50 mm x6 mm)	72139190 72139990 72149990 72161000 72162100 72162200 72163100 72163200 72163300 72164000 72165000 72111300 72111410 72111420 72111430 72111440 72111450 72111460 72111490 72119012 72119090 72139190 72139990 72149190 72149990 72082510 72082520 72082530 72082540 72082590 72082610 72082620 72082630 72082640 72082690 72082710 72082720 72082730 72082740 72082790 72083610 72083620 72083630 72083640 72083690 72083710 72083720 72083730 72083740 72083790 72083810 72083820 72083830 72083840 72083890 72083910 72083920 72083930 72083940 72083990 72085110 72085120 72085130 72085140 72085190 72085210 72085220 72085230 72085240 72085290 72085310 72085320 72085330 72085340 72085390 72089000	(a) Hot Rolled Fiat Rolled products (sheets/strips/coils) less than 6 mm thickness; (b) Flat bars and rounds/ squares/ hexagons/ octagon bars of thickness/ diameter 12 mm and above;	31^st March, 2013
				(ba) Flat bars and rounds/ squares/ hexagons/ octagon bars of thickness/ diameter less than 12 mm; (c) Plates of thickness more than 80 mm in Ultrasonic Tested condition; (d) Plates of thickness less than 16 mm but width more than 3500 mm;	1^st October, 2013
				(e) Universal Beam structural steel of size (depth) greater than 590 mm up to and including size 1016 mm; (f) Universal Column structural steel of size greater than 305 mm up to and including size 356 mm; (fa) Plate of thickness of 10 mm to 80 mm and width of 2500 mm or more; (fb) Angle (L section) structural steel of size between 50x50x4 and 100x100x8;	31^st March, 2013
				(g) for other products excluding (a), (b), (ba), (c), (d), (e), (f), (fa) and (fb) above	12^th September, 2012

Explanation - For the purpose of this Order, it is hereby clarified that while taking a decision on the levy of duty as per the Customs Tariff Heads, the provisions of this Order shall apply to the specific products described under corresponding entry under column (2), covered under the Indian Standard number mentioned under corresponding entry under column (1) and in such case this Order shall not apply to those products which falls under the ITC (HS) Codes mentioned in corresponding entry under column (3) but do not fall under the corresponding Indian Standards mentioned under column (1)”.
[F.No. 1(6)/2011-TW]