Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
Circular No. 08/2012-Customs
229-A, North Block,
New Delhi, the 13th March, 2012.
To
All Chief Commissioners of Customs/ Customs (Prev.)/ C&CE,
All Directors General of CBEC,
All Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Prev.) / C&CE
All Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise (Appeals).
Subject: Ban on export of Cotton (Tariff Code
5201 and 5203)- reg.
Sir / Madam,
Attention is invited to Board’s
Circular No. 06/2012-Cus dated 06-03-2012 and
DGFT RE
Notification No.102 (RE-2010)/2009-14 dated 5th March, 2012 amending
Notification no. 74(RE-2010)/2009-14 dated 12-09-2011 imposing ban on export of
cotton (Tariff code 5201 and 5203).
- DGFT vide
Notification no. 106(RE-2010)/2009-14 dated 12th March, 2012 has
withdrawn the earlier Notification No. 102 imposing ban and now the export of
Cotton is free subject to the condition “prior registration of Contract with
DGFT”.
- Considering the sensitivity of the issue the Board desires that the field
formations should strictly monitor the conditions imposed by DGFT in the above
notification with immediate effect.
- Suitable instructions may accordingly be given to the field formations.
Yours faithfully,
(A.K.Goel),
Senior Technical Officer
Tariff Unit
F. No. 524/19/2012-STO (TU)