Export Duty on Organic Sugar upto 10,000 MT Exempted for One Year from Oct’16 to Sept’17

[Customs Notification No. 43 dated 26^th July 2016]

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 amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 27/2011-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 153(E), dated the 1st March, 2011, namely :-

In the said notification, in the Table, after serial number 63 and the entries relating thereto the following entry shall be inserted:

64

1701

Organic sugar upto 10,000 MT in a year beginning with October and ending with September subject to the following conditions: (i) The export of organic sugar is done in terms of the Public Notice No.73 (RE-2013)/2009-2014 dated 18th November, 2014 and No.10/2015-2020 dated 5th May, 2015 of the DGFT; and (ii) The exporter produces a Registration-cum-Allocation Certificate (RCAC) issued by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) certifying the quantity of export of organic sugar eligible to be exported by claiming exemption from export duty: Provided that for the period ending with 30th September 2016, the exemption shall be restricted to 2500 MT.

Nil

[F.No.354/260/2015 -TRU]