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Regarding facility for permitting imports under any DEPB Scheme at
various ports/ airports/ ICDs through TRA Procedure
Circular No. 33
dated 13th May 1998
Please refer to Boards Circular Nos. 10/97-Cus.
dated 17. 04. 97, 28/97-Cus. dated 30. 07. 97, 5/ 98-Cus. dated 23. 01. 98 and
19/98-Cus dated 20. 03. 98.
2. Para 6 of Circular
No. 10/97-Cus. provided that, under DEPB Scheme, imports and exports can be
undertaken only from the port of registration of the DEPB scrip. This condition
was relaxed by issue of Circular No. 28/97-Cus., to permit imports from Delhi,
Mumbai, Calcutta, and Chennai, for DEPB Scrip�s registered at any of these
ports. Further relaxations were provided by later circulars.
3. Representations
have been received from various Exporters� Organisations for general
relaxations of TRA facility, under DEPB Scheme, to permit imports at all ports
etc.
4. The issue has been
examined in the Board in regard to the expertise and facility of assessment
available at various ports/ Airports/ ICD and it has been decided that the DEPB
holders whose DEPB Scrips are registered at any of the following sea-ports/
airports/ ICDs may be allowed to import goods at any of the following sea-ports/
Airports/ ICDs: -
i) Sea-ports at
Mumbai, Calcutta, Cochin, Kandla, Mangalore, Marmagoa, Chennai, Nhava Sheva,
Kakinada, and Visakhapatnam;
ii) Airports at
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Calcutta, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai, and
iii) ICDs at Bangalore,
Delhi, Moradabad, Ludhiana, Hyderabad, Agra, Faridabad, Guntur, Surat and
Ahmedabad.
5. This facility is
only applicable to imports and not to exports. In respect of other ports, the
DEPB holders must import at the same port where the DEPB book is registered.
6.
This circular supersedes all other circulars issued on this subject.
7. The aforesaid
facility will be operated by issue of Telegraphic Release Advice (TRA) from the
port of registration to the Custom House, at which the goods are being imported,
indicating the details of description, value and quantity of the goods. the DEPB
serial number, date of issue and the extent of duty entitlement in the DEPB
book/ scrip also must be indicated in the TRA, to facilitate imports against
relevant DEPB scrip�s. The Custom House receiving the TRA will send details of
imports t the Custom House issuing the TRA who will keep these details in the
register.
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