Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-110011
Public Notice No. 41 /(RE-2010)2009-2014
Dated: the 18th March, 2011
Subject:- MODIFICATION OF SION C-514 under Engineering Product Group.
In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade
Policy, 2009-14, the following amendment is made in the Handbook of Procedure
Vol. II (as stated in paragraph 1.1 of Vol. I):
SION S.No.C-514 of the Product Group “Engineering Product”
(Product Code: C)
Export Items:
Existing description: Non-Alloy Steel Bars & Rods (including rounds, flats,
hexagons, octagons, wire rods, cold twisted deformed bars, thermomechanically
treated reinforcing bars etc.) Angles, shapes and sections (including beam,
joists, channels, special profiles etc.), Plates/ Sheets / Strips/Wide coils,
Blooms / Billets / Slabs/ Ingots…... 1000 kgs
Modified description: Non-Alloy Steel Ingots/Blooms / Billets / Slabs…1000 kgs.
Import Items:
| Sl. No. |
Items |
Existing Norms |
Modified Norms |
| |
Major Inputs |
|
|
| 1. |
Non-alloy steel melting scrap, pig iron, cast iron, sponge iron including Hot
Briquetted Iron (HBI) |
1200 kg |
1115 kg |
| 2. |
Low silica limestone |
95 kg |
95 kg |
| |
Additives |
|
|
| 3. |
Silico Manganese/ Ferro Silicon / Ferro Manganese |
15 kg |
15 kg |
| 4. |
Petroleum Coke/ Graphite Powder |
5 kg |
4 kg |
| 5. |
Aluminium Scrap /Ingots / Shots/ Powder in Cored Wire
|
1 kg |
1kg |
| 6. |
Calcium silicide lump/powder in Cored Wire |
1 kg |
1 kg |
| 7. |
Lead shots/ powder in Cored wire (in case export product is lead bearing free
cutting steel only) |
2.5 kg |
2.5 kg |
| 8. |
Copper Scrap / Copper Cathode /Copper Wire Bar/ Copper Rod (if Copper present in Export Pr.)
|
0.04 kg |
0.04 kg |
| |
Consumables/Misc. Inputs |
|
|
| 9. |
Graphite Electrode (Only for units with EAF) |
6 kg |
4 kg |
| 10. |
Copper Lined Moulds for Continuous Casting |
0.019 kg |
0.01 kg |
| 11. |
Shear Blades / Saw Blades |
0.1 kg |
0.01 kg |
| 12. |
Ceramic Coated Lancing Pipe/Oxygen lancing pipe (only for units with EAF)
|
0.75 kg |
0.75 kg |
| Sl. No. |
Items |
Existing Norms |
Modified Norms |
| 13. |
Temperature Tips |
0.022 kg |
0.50 nos. |
| 14 |
Sampler Tips |
0.25 nos. |
0.25 nos. |
| 15 |
Casting powder/ Anti-piping compound |
2 kg |
1 kg |
| 16. |
Cast Iron/Steel Rolls/ tungsten carbide rings for rolling mill (to
be allowed only when export product is rolled billets/ blooms/ slabs)
|
1.77 kg |
1.77 kg |
| |
Refractories |
|
|
| 17. |
a) Shaped refractories (Fired/ Unfired) |
10 kg |
5 Kg |
| |
b) Monolithic Refractories (incl. Castables/Ramming Mass/Gunning
mixes |
|
4 kg |
| |
c) Speciality Refractories namely, CC refractory(shrouds, monoblock stoppers, SE
Nozzles), Slide Gate Refractory, Porous Plug, Zircon/Zirconia Nozzles and
Tundish Nozzles, seat blocks, sleeves. |
|
1 Kg |
| |
Energy sources and lubricants |
|
|
| 18. |
Furnace Oil (for units with CPP) |
70 kg |
70 kg |
| 19. |
Lubricants (only for units with CPP) |
0.65 kg |
0.60 kg |
| 20. |
Furnace Oil for Ladle/Tundish Heating |
6 kg |
4 kg |
| 21. |
Furnace oil for oil fired reheating furnace in rolling mill (to be
allowed only when export product is rolled billets/ blooms/ slabs)
|
50 kg |
30 kg |
Note:
- These norms will be applicable only if the export product is manufactured
through Electric Arc Furnace route/Induction Furnace route using steel scrap as
basic raw material.
- Sl. 16 & 21 will be allowed only in case of export of rolled
billets/blooms/slabs,
- In case of export of rolled blooms/billets/slabs, produced out of ingots,
refractory items under sl. 17 shall not be allowed.
- Against export of ingots, import items at Sl. 10, 11, 16 & 21 shall not be
allowed.
- When export product has been manufactured through electric induction furnace
route, import item No. 9 & 12 will not be allowed.
- The item non alloy steel melting scrap will be allowed as per the definition
given in section XV of Customs Tariff.
- Individual quantity of Pig/cast iron, and sponge iron/ HBI shall not exceed
20% and 65% respectively of the total quantity of items to be permitted under
import item No. 1.
Effect of this modification: There has been a change in the description of
export product. On the input side the number of inputs have not changed, but
quantity permitted in respect of some inputs have been reduced.
Sd/-
(Anup K. Pujari)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail:[email protected]
(Issued from F. No. 01/81/162/670/AM’11/DES-II)