Two Month Manufacture Period Now for Raw
Sugar TRQ
[Customs Notification No. 13 dated 13th
April 2017]
Seeks to further amend notification No.12/2012-Customs,
dated 17.03.2012 so as to allow the following changes regarding duty free
import of raw sugar [1701], allowed vide notification No.12/2017-Customs dated
5th, April, 2017:
1. Time line for availing TRQ benefit (duty free) for
import of raw sugar [1701] has been extended from 12.06.2017 to 30.06.2017.
2. Actual user condition has been prescribed for
importing raw sugar at Nil rate, availing TRQ benefit
for manufacture of white/ refined sugar.
3. A time line of 2 months, from the date of filing of
bill of entry or the date of entry inwards, whichever is later, is being
prescribed to convert raw sugar into white/ refined sugar.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1)
of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being
satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes
the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of
India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.12/2012-Customs,
dated the 17th March, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number
G.S.R. 185(E), dated the 17th March, 2012, namely:-
In the said notification,
(A) in the Table, against serial number 78 A
(a) for the entry in column (3), after the words “total imports
of such goods.” The following proviso shall be inserted;-
“Provided that the importer shall convert the raw sugar
into white/ refined sugar within a period, not exceeding two months, from the
date of filing of bill of entry or the date of entry inwards, whichever is
later.”;
(b) for the entry in column (6), the entry “3 D and 5” shall be
substituted.
(B) after the Table, in the proviso, in clause (l) for the
figures, letters and words “13th day of June, 2017”, the figures, letters and
words “1st day of July , 2017” shall be substituted.
[F.No.354/78/2009-TRU (Pt.)]