Government of India
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi – 110 011
Policy Circular No. 33/2009-14 (RE 2010)
Dated: 1st July, 2011
To
All Zonal / Regional Authorities (RAs)
Subject: Clarification regarding import of Fuel under Advance Authorisation /
DFIA Scheme.
Attention is invited to the General Note for Fuel specified in the HBP v2. The
General Note was further amended by
Public Notice No. 66/2009-14 dated
19.5.2010. The amendment allowed import of fuel even for Adhoc Norms cases under
Paragraph 4.7 of Handbook of Procedures, v1.
- It has been brought to the notice of this Directorate that the applicability
of this provision is also made in cases where ‘Fuel’ is being used as a main raw
material for manufacturing export product and in such cases the import
entitlement is determined as per the ‘General Note for Fuel’.
- In this regard, the following is clarified:-
- The General Note for Fuel has been incorporated in view of provisions at para 4.1.3 of FTP which allows fuel as an additional input to obtain export
product.
- In cases where fuel is used as a single input or basic raw material and not
as an additional input to the export product, the entitlement shall not be as
per the General Note for Fuel. Rather the import entitlement will be either as
per SION, if it exists or in non-SION cases, an applicant can seek the inputs in
terms of para 4.7 of the HBP v1 and the final adjustment will be made as per
adhoc / SION fixed by Norms Committee.
- Any difficulty in implementation of the aforesaid guidelines shall be brought
to the notice of this Directorate immediately.
This issues with the approval of DGFT.
(C. Gangadharan)
Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade
Tel 2306 1562
e-mail: [email protected]
(Issued from File No. 01/94/180/020/AM 12/PC 4)