PROCEDURE FOR
IMPORT OF VARIOUS ITEMS UNDER TARIFF RATE QUOTA (TRQ)
The Directorate General
of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has issued Public Notice No. 38 dated
4th October, 2002 laying down the procedure for allocation
of quota for import of milk powder, maize, crude sunflower seed
or safflower oil and refined rape, colza or mustard oil, at concessional
rate of duty under Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) mechanism. Department
of Revenue has already notified the same vide the Notification
No. 21/2002 dated 1st March, 2002.
Ten thousand (10,000)
metric tonnes of milk powder has been allowed at a concessional
duty of 15%. Applications for allocation of the quota for the
milk powder can be made on behalf of Actual Users by the National
Dairy Development Board (NDDB), State Trading Corporation (STC),
National Cooperative Dairy Federation (NCDF), National Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED), Mineral
& Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC). Projects & Equipment
Corporation of India Limited (PEC) and Spices Trading Corporation
Limited (STCL).
Four lakh and fifty
thousand (4,50,000) metric tonnes of maize (corn) has been allowed
to be imported at a concessional duty of 15%. Applications for
allocation of the quota for the maize (corn) can be made by NAFED,
STC, MMTC, PEC, STCL and State Cooperative Marketing Federations
on behalf of Actual Users.
One lakh and fifty
thousand (1,50,000) metric tonnes of crude sunflower seed or safflower
oil has been allowed to be imported at a concessional duty of
50%. Applications for allocation of the quota for the crude sunflower
seed or safflower oil can be made on behalf of Actual users by
NDDB, NAFED, STC, STCL and Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC).
One lakh and fifty
thousand (1,50,000) metric tonnes of refined rape, colza or mustard
oil has been allowed to be imported at a concessional duty of
45%. Applications for allocation of the quota for the refined
rape, colza or mustard oil can be made on behalf of Actual Users
by NDDB, NAFED, STC, STCL and CWC.
These agencies have
to make imports only on behalf of actual users. They have to make
applications to the Exim Facilitation Committee (EFC) in the DGFT
in the pro-forma annexed to this Public Notice along with the
documents prescribed therein. The applications for the allocation
of TRQ has to be made on or before 17/10/2002.
