Custom Notification No. 45 dated 22^nd April 2002 (As amended by Notification No. 125 dated 12^th November 2002)

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 exempts goods imported into India from -

(1)������ the whole of the duty of Customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975);

(2)������ the whole of the additional duty leviable under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act where specifically claimed by the importer, and

(3)������ the whole of the Special Additional Duty of Customs leviable under section 3A of the said Customs Tariff Act;

���������� Subject to the following conditions, namely: -

(i)���� that the importer has been issued a Duty Entitlement Pass Book by the Licensing Authority in terms of paragraph 4.3 of the Export and Import Policy.

(ii)��� the importer has been permitted credit entries in the said Duty Entitlement Pass Book by the Licensing Authority at the rate notified by the Government of India in the Ministry of Commerce for the products exported;

(iii)�� the said Duty Entitlement Pass Book is produced before the proper officer of Customs for debit of the duties leviable on the goods but for exemption contained herein:

Provided that exemption from duty shall not be admissible if there is insufficient credit in the said Duty Entitlement Pass Book for debiting the duty leviable on the goods but for the exemption.

(iv)��� the said Duty Entitlement Pass Book shall be valid for twelve months from the date of issue or such extended period as may be granted by the Licensing Authority for import and export only, at the port of registration which shall be one of the sea ports at Mumbai, Kolkata, Cochin, Kandla, Mangalore, Marmagoa, Chennai, Nhava Sheva, Paradeep, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam, Kakkinada, Magdalla, Sikka, Pipavav, Dehej, Mundra, Nagapattinam, Okha and Dharamtar or any of the airports at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Nagpur and Cochin or any of the Inland Container Depots, at Bangalore, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gauhati, Kanpur, Pimpri (Pune), Pitampur (Indore), Moradabad, Ludhiana, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Agra, Faridabad, Jaipur, Guntur, Varanasi, Jodhpur, Salem, Tirupur, Singanalur, Waluj, Surat, Malanpur, Nasik, Rudrapur (Nainital), Kota, Udaipur, Daulatabad (Wanjarwadi and Maliwada), Dighi (Pune), Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Bhiwadi, Madurai, Jalandhar, Meerut, Bhilwara, Pondicherry and Garhi Harsaru or through the Land Customs Station at Ranaghat, Singhabad and Rakaul:

Provided that where the expiry of the Duty Entitlement Pass Book falls before the last day of the month, such Duty Entitlement Pass Book shall be deemed to be valid till the last day of the said month:

Provided further that the Commissioner of Customs may, by special order and subject to such conditions as may be specified by him, permit imports and exports from any other sea port, airport, inland container depot or through a land customs station;

(v)��� where the importer does not claim exemption from the additional duty of customs leviable under section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), he shall be deemed not to have availed the exemption from the duty specified in the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act for the purpose of calculation of the said additional duty of customs.

(vi)��� where benefit of exemption from duty is claimed by a person, who is not a Duty Entitlement Pass Book holder, such benefit shall be permissible only against specific amount of credit transferred by a Duty Entitlement Pass Book holder to such Person.