Procedure for
Allocation of Pet Coke Import
·
Apply for import license in ANF 2M to
DGFT (Exim Facilitation Committee)
·
Completed application form (ANF 2M)
along with ANF-1(Importer Exporter Profile) and the documents mentioned at
(iii) above must reach on or before 31st March. 2019
·
EFC in DGFT will evaluate and allot
quota among applicants by 5th April 2019 and licenses will be issued
by the concerned jurisdictional Regional Authorities of DGFT by the 12th April,
2019
·
Imports have to be completed before
31. 3.2020 of the financial year
[DGFT
Public Notice No. 81/2015-20 dated 22 March 2019]
Effect
of this Public Notice: Procedure
for allocation of quota for import of (i) Calcined Pet Coke for use as Calcined
Pet coke (CPC) in Aluminium Industry and (ii) Raw Pet Coke for CPC
manufacturing industry is notified.
Subject:
Procedure for allocation of quota for import of (i) Calcined Pet Coke (0.5
Million MT per annum) for Aluminum Industry and (ii) Raw Pet Coke (1.4 Million
MT) for CPC manufacturing industry.
S.O.(E)
...The Hon'ble Supreme Court in the Writ Petition No. 13029/1985 vide its order
dated 4th October, 2018, has decreed that the import of raw material for use as
Calcined Pet coke (CPC) in Aluminium Industry cannot exceed 0.5 Million MT per
annum in total. Similarly import of Raw Pet Coke for CPC manufacturing industry
cannot exceed 1.4 Million MT per annum. In light of the Order of the Hon'ble
Supreme Court, the import policy condition of Pet Coke was amended vide
Notification No. 42 dated 23'd October, 2018 and wherein it had been indicated
that the regulation and monitoring of such imports will be as per the guidelines
of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued vide OM No
Q-18011/54/2018-CPA dated 1oth September, 2018.
2.
Pursuant to the above and in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of
the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 as amended from time
to time read with Para 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy (2015-2020), the
Director General of Foreign Trade hereby notifies the procedure/ mechanism to
implement the quantitative restriction imposed on import of Calcined Pet Coke
and Raw Pet Coke for year 2019-2020, as under:
Conditions and modalities of application
for import of Pet coke.
(i)
Imports will be subject to guidelines laid
down by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issued vide OM No
Q-18011/54/2018-CPA dated 10th September, 2018;
(ii) The annual
quantity limitation in import will be operated on fiscal year basis.
Accordingly, the total quantity permitted for import per annum by the Hon'ble
Supreme Court and available for import is (i) Calcined Pet Coke for use as
Calcined Pet coke in Aluminium Industry is 0.5 Million MT and (ii) Raw Pet Coke
for CPC manufacturing industry is 1.4 Million MT. This is available for all
industrial units in these two sectors including the petitioners.
(iii) All
eligible entities desiring to avail quota as ment1oned above, may apply for
import license in ANF 2M to DGFT (Exim Facilitation Committee) Udyog Bhavan,
New Delhi - 110 011 with copy to concerned jurisdictional Regional Authority of
DGFT along with capacity of the unit and a valid consent certificate from State
Pollution Control Board (SPCB)/ Pollution Control Committee (PCC), in the name
of user industrial units indicating the quantity permitted for import and its
usage on a monthly and yearly basis.
(iv) Completed application form (ANF 2M) along
with ANF-1(Importer Exporter Profile) and the documents mentioned at (iii)
above must reach on or before 31st March. 2019. Application fee
shall be paid in accordance with the procedure as in Appendix 2K of Appendices
& Aayat Niryat Forms and submitted to petcokeimport-dgft@nic.in. The
subject header of this e-mail shall be "Name of applicant / IE Code/
quantity applied in Million Ton/Name of the RA where application is being
filed.
(for
example if M/s. ABC imports having IE Code 1234567890 are intending to file an
application at Ahmedabad for export of 1000 MT then the subject header would
be: ABC imports / 1234567890/1000 MT/ Ahmedabad)
(v) If documents
received are found in order, application will be considered in Exim
Facilitation Committee (EFC) for import of restricted items and the concerned
jurisdictional RA will grant authorization. The import license/ authorization
will be valid till 31.3.2020 only for the purpose of imports.
(vi) If, after
obtaining permission/license, importer cannot utilize/ import the entire
quantity for which the license has been issued, the applicant shall intimate
the same to DGFT at petcokeimport-dgft@nic.in
within 30 days of the allocation of such quota in order to
facilitate distribution of the unutilized quota to other applicants who had
applied initially.
(vii) Holders of
the license for import of Pet Coke would keep the RA informed of the details of
his import consignments i.e the quantity of import, source and date of import
along with details of Bill of entry in respect of each consignment on clearance
of goods from Customs. Subsequently, a consolidated report within 30 days of the
expiry of import authorization period must be submitted to the Regional
Authority, giving consolidated details of all imports made during the period
(viii) EFC in DGFT
will evaluate and allot quota among applicants by 5th April 2019 and
licenses will be issued by the concerned jurisdictional Regional Authorities of
DGFT by the 12th April, 2019.
(ix) Review of
the quota available, if any, after surrender of the quota by allottees will be
held thereafter ; and
(x) Imports have
to be completed before 31. 3.2020 of the financial year i.e. consignments must
be cleared by customs authorities before this date.
[F.
No: 01/93/180/03/AM-10/PC-2(A) Part-1]