CRO must be satisfied
for IT Goods like Mobiles
·
No CRO to Result in Destruction of
Goods at Import Point
[DGFT Notification No .50 /2015-2020 dated 8
January 2018]
Effect of this Notification: Import Policy on Notified Goods under
Electronics and Information Technology Goods (Requirement of Compulsory
Registration) Order, 2012, is laid down.
Subject: Import policy for electronics and IT Goods
under Schedule – I (Import
Policy) of lTC (HS), 2017.
S.O.
(E): In exercise of powers conferred by Section 3 of FT
(D&R) Act, 1992, read with paragraph 1.02 and 2.01 of the Foreign Trade
Policy, 2015-2020, as amended from time to time, the Central Government hereby inserts the following Import Policy and
Policy Condition for new Electronics and
IT Goods under General Notes 2 (C):
"Import
policy for electronics and IT Goods:
The
import of Notified Goods under the "Electronics and Information Technology
Goods (Requirement of Compulsory Registration) Order, 2012, as amended from
time to time, will be allowed subject to registration with the Bureau of Indian
Standards (BIS), or on specific exemption letter from Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology (MeitY) for a particular consignment, as per
provisions of Gazette Notification SO No.3022 dated 11.09.2013. Accordingly,
import of unregistered/non compliant notified products as in CRO, 2012, as
amended is "prohibited".
Import
consignments without valid registration with BIS shall be re exported by the
importer failing which Customs shall deform the goods and dispose them as scrap
under intimation to MeitY.
2.
Further, the above is also inserted as Policy
Condition No.2 under Chapter 84 and
Policy Condition No.5 under Chapter 85 of lTC (HS), 2017, Schedule 1
(Import Policy).
This
issues with the approval of Minister of Commerce & industry.
[Issued
from F.No.01/89/180/39/AM-13/PC-2(A)/e 2261]