Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry Department of
Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade Udyog Bhavan
Notification No. 02/2015-2020
New Delhi, dated: 24th April, 2019
Subject: Amendment in Appendix 3 (SCOMET items) to Schedule- 2 of ITC (HS)
Classification of Export and Import Items, 2018
S.O. 1635(E).- In
exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 and Section 14A of the Foreign
Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992, as amended, read with Para 1.02 of
the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020, the Central Government hereby makes
amendments, with immediate effect, in Appendix 3 to Schedule -2 of ITC (HS)
Classification of Export and Import Items 2018, as notified in DGFT Notification
No. 17/2015-20 dated 03.07.2018.
2. The existing entries against SCOMET
entry 1C004 and 1C016 in Category 1C shall be substituted as under (changes made
are in bold letters):’
S. No. |
SCOMET Entry |
Revised Policy |
4 |
‘1C004 |
(Reserved)’ |
16 |
‘1C016 |
(Reserved)’ |
3. After the SCOMET entry 1D and the
entries relating thereto, the following new SCOMET entry 1E shall be inserted as
follows:
`1E Export of Chemicals as specified below is allowed to State
Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) without an export authorisation
subject to the condition that the exporter shall notify within 30 days of export
to the National Authority, Chemical Weapons Convention, Cabinet Secretariat; the
Ministry of External Affairs (D&ISA); the Department of Chemicals &
Petro-chemicals, and the DGFT of such exports in the prescribed format (Aayat
Niryat Form) along with the End-Use Certificate (EUC) and submit to DGFT a copy
of the bill of entry into the destination State Party within 30 days of
delivery.
S.No. |
SCOMET Entry |
Name of the Chemical |
Entry in CWC Schedule 3 |
CAS Number |
ITC (HS) Code |
1 |
1E004 |
Chloropicrin : Trichloronitro-Methane |
3A04 |
76-06-2 |
29049080 |
2 |
3A04 |
Methyldiethanolamine |
3B16 |
105-59-9 |
29221212 |
Export of chemicals as specified above to States not Party to the
CWC shall continue to be restricted and will be allowed only against an export
authorisation, and in that case also exporters shall submit to the DGFT a copy
of the bill of entry into the destination country within 30 days of export.
Further, applications for export of chemicals in this category to countries not
Party to the CWC shall be submitted along with a Government signed End-Use
Certificate in the prescribed format [Appendix 2S(ii)].
4. Effect of this
Notification:
The existing export policy of chemicals namely,
Chloropicrin: Trichloronitro Methane and Methyldiethanolamine listed under
Appendix 3 (SCOMET List) has been amended to allow export of these chemicals to
State Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) without an export
authorisation, on post reporting basis.
(Issued from F.No. 01/91/171/37/AM10/EC )
(Alok Vardhan Chaturvedi)
Direct: General of Foreign Trade Ex-officio Additional Secretary, Government
of India E-mail: [email protected]
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