| Date: |
11-04-1997
|
| Notification No: |
Customs Circular No 9/1997
|
| Issuing Authority: |
Indian Customs
|
| Type: |
Circular
|
| File No: |
|
| Subject: |
Mode of disposal of CARE/ WFP gifted food consignments declared damaged and categorised unfit for human consumption but fit for poultry/ animal feed
|
|
Mode of disposal of CARE/ WFP gifted food consignments declared damaged
and categorised unfit for human consumption but fit for poultry/ animal feed
Circular No. 9dated 11th April 1997
I am directed to
refer to this Department's Circular F.No. 462/36/80-Cus. V dated 17.2.83, and to
state that in the issue regarding disposal of damaged foodstuff imported under
the Indo-Care Agreement and World Food Programme assistance for supplementary
Nutrition Programme in India, which are found unfit for human consumption, it
has been reiterated by the Board that the benefit of General Exemption
Notification No.148/94-Cus will also be applicable to consignments of damaged
foodstuffs, which are not fit for human consumption but are fit for animal
consumption, irrespective of the fact whether these consignments were damaged
either prior to their clearance from customs or subsequent to their clearance,
subject to furnishing of a certificate from the concerned State government that
the goods have been converted into animal feed.
|
|
|