In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts materials imported into India, against a Special Advance Licence with Actual User Condition in terms of para 7.4 of the Export and Import Policy 1997-2002 notified by the Government of India in the Ministry of Commerce vide Public Notice No. 41 (RE-98)/1997-2002, dated the 16th September, 1998 (hereinafter referred to as the said licence), from the whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and from the whole of additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, subject to the following conditions, namely:

(i) that the materials imported are covered by the said licence and an Actual User Duty Exemption Entitlement Certificate (hereinafter referred to as the said certificate), issued by the Licensing Authority in the form specified in the Schedule annexed to this notification, in respect of quantity and description.

Provided that the value and details of the technical specifications of the materials shall be submitted by the importer to the Assistant Commissioner of Customs having jurisdiction in the Bill of Entry and Part "D" of the said certificate at the time of clearance;

(ii) that materials imported are required in export of the resultant electronic products made of the materials and the import of the materials is made prior to the export;

(iii) that the resultant electronic products shall be manufactured only out of the materials imported this notification;

(iv) that the importer at the time of clearance of the imported materials executes a bond with such surety or security and in such form and for such sum as may be specified by the Assistant Commissioner of Customs having jurisdiction binding himself to pay on demand an amount equal to the duty leviable, but for the exemption, on the imported materials in respect of which the conditions specified in this notification have not been compiled with, together with interest at the rate of fifteen per cent per annum from the date of clearance of the said materials;

(In condition (iv) bold figure has been substituted vide Finance Bill 2003-2004 - Date of effect 16/10/1998)

(In condition (iv) bold words has been substituted vide Cus Ntf No.113/2002 Date 16/10/2002)

(v) that the said licence and part I of the said certificate are produced before the proper officer of customs at the time of clearance for debit;

(vi) that the importer shall maintain the record of imported materials and the export products in the format as specified in the Annexure to this notification;

(vii) the Designated Officer of the Department of Electronics (hereinafter referred to as the said officer) verifies the relevance / useability of the imported materials in the export product as well as the quanity of such materials required for the manufacture of such export product. The said officer shall also verify the actual utilisation of the imported materials in the export product as well as the wastage in respect of export product as well as the wastage in respect of export product in terms of the standard input output norms as specified in Volume II of the Hand Book of Procedure of the Export and Import Policy 1997-2002 (hereinafter referred to as the Hand Book);

Provided that where such standard input output norms are not specified in, the Hand Book for an export product, the said officer shall determine and verify the relevance / useability of the imported materials as well as the quantity of such materials required for the manufacture of such export product. The said officer shall also verify the actual utilisation of the imported materials in such export product as well as the wastage as is determined by him to be reasonable.

(viii) That the imports and exports are undertakenthrough the sea ports at Mumbai, Calcutta, Cochin, Magdalla, Kakinada, Kandla, Managalore, Marmagoa, Madras, Nhava Sheva, Paradeep,Pipavav, Sikka, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam, Dahej and Nagapattinam, Okha, Mundhra, Jamnagar and Muldwarka or through any of the airports at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Mumbai, Calcutta, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Madras, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Nagpur and Cochin or through any of the Inland Container Depots at Agra, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Delhi, Faridabad, Gauhati, Gunture, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Moradabad, Nagpur, Pimpri (Pune), Pitampur (Indore), Surat, Tirupur, Varanasi, Nasik, Rudrapur (Nainital), Dighi (Pune), Vadodara, Daulatabad (Wanjarwadi and Maliwada), Waluj (Aurangabad), Anaparthy (Andhra Pradesh), Salem, alanpur,Singanallur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Bhiwadi, Madurai, Bhilwara, Pondichery, Garhi Harsaru, Bhatinda, Dappar (Dera Bassi), Chheharata (Amritsar), Karur, Miraj, Rewari, Bhusawal, Jamshedpur, Surajpur and Dadri or through the Land Customs Stations at Ranaghat, Singhabad, Raxaul, Jogbani, Nautanva(Sonauli), Petrapole and Mahadipur.

(Condition (viii) has been amended vide CUS NTF NO. 63/2004 DATE 14/05/2004)

(Condition (viii) has been amended vide Cus Ntf No.84/2003 Date 27/05/2003)

(Condition (viii) has been amended vide Cus Ntf No.125/2002 Date 12/11/2002)

(Condition (viii) has been amended vide Cus Ntf. No.122/2001 Date 3/12/2001.)

(Above amendments has been made vide Ntf. No.30/2001, dated 12th March, 2001.

(Sr. No. (viii) has been amended vide Customs Notification No.120/2000, dt. 15-9-2000)

(Sr. No. viii has been substituted vide Corrigendum G.S.R. 466(E))

(Sr. No. (viii) has been amended vide Customs NTF No. 51/99 Dt. 29-4-99)

Provided that the Commissioner of Customs, may by Special Order and subject to such conditions as may be specified by him, permit import and export through any other Seaport, Airport, or Inland Container Depot or through the Land Customs Station.

(Second proviso has been omitted vide CUS NTF NO. 97/2003 DATE 25/06/2003)

[OLD Provided further that where the goods are delivered for export through any Inland Container Depot specified in this condition, its export shall only be permitted through the sea-ports at Mumbai, Nhava Sheva, Kandla, Chennai or Kolkata.]

(Second proviso has been inserted vide Cus Ntf No.84/2003 Date 27/05/2003)

(ix) that the sourcing of the imported materials from private bonded warehouses set up under para 5.15 of the Export and Import Policy 1997-2002 would be allowed;

(x) that the export obligation is discharged within the period specified in the said certificate or within such extended period as may be granted by the Licensing Authority by exporting resultant products manufactured in India which are specified in Part "E" of the said certificate (hereinafter referred to as resultant products);

(xi) that the importer produces certificate from the said officer to the effect that the imported materials have been actually utilised in the manufacture of resultant products and the said certificate is produced as evidance of discharge of export obligation to the Assistant Commissioner of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs having jurisdiction within a period of thirty day of the expiry of period allowed for fulfilmentof export obligation, or within such extended period as the said Assistant Commissioner of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Customs, may allow;

(xii) that the imported materials shall not be disposed of or utilised in any manner except for utilisation in discharge of export obligation;

Provided that disposal of waste shall be allowed upto the limits specified in the standard input out-put norms mentioned in the said hand book without payment of customs duty:

Provided further that disposal of waste arising in respect of resultant product not mentioned in the standard input output norms in the said hand book shall be allowed without payment of Customs duty subject to verification by the said officer.

Provided also that imported materials which remain unutilised after the expiry of the export obligation period, shall be liable to customs duty but for the exemption contained in this notification, together with interest at the rate of twenty four per cent per annum from the date of clearance of the materials.

(xiii) that the importer is registered with both the Central Excise Officer deputed for this purpose and the Electronics and Software Export Promotion Council.

Explanation, - In this notification,

(i) "Licencing Authority" means the Director General of Foreign Trade appointed under section 6 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992) of an officer authorised by him to grant a licence under the said Act;

(ii) "materials" means

(a) raw materials, components, intermediates, consurnables, computer software and parts required for manufacture of resultant product specified in Part E of the said certificate.

(b) mandatory spares within a value limit of ten per cent of the value of said licence which are required to be exported alongwith the resultant product.

(c) packing materials required for packing if resultant products
 

(This consists of ...... pages)
Sl. No........ (IMP) Date of issue ..........
Port of Registration ..............
Issued to ..............................
.......................................(name and full address of the licencee)

Materials imported against licence No. .... dated ....... issued by ...... to the above licence and covered by the list of materials specified in list (a) of Part "C" of this certificate would be eligible for exemption from customs duties subject to the conditions specified in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue No. ....... Customs, dated the ....... 1998.

The importer shall discharge the export obligation in terms of the said notification within ........ months from the date of issue of licence.

A Bond with security / surety in terms of the said notification, shall be executed before clearance of the goods from the Customs.
 

Signature
Seal of licensing authority
date

Name and addresses of the factories where the resultant products for export are manufactured.
 

Names and addresses of factories where the ancillaries to the resultant products for export are manufactured
 

(a) materials to be imported under this certificate
 

(b) Other imported materials to be used in export product
 

(This consists of .......... pages)
Sl. No. ...... (EXP) Date of issue .........
Port of Registration .......................
Issued to ..................................
............................................
............................................ (name and full address of
............................................ the licence)

Materials imported against Licence No. ..... dated ........issued by ....... to the above licence and covered by the list of materials specified in list (a) of Part "C" of this certificate would be eligible for exemption from customs duties subject to the onditions specified in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue No. ........ Customs, dated the ....... 1998.

The licence shall discharge the export obligation in terms of the said notification within ...... months from the date of issue of licence.

A Bond with surety / security in terms of the said notification, shall be executed before clearances of the goods from the customs.
 

Signature
Seal of licensing authority
date

Names and addresses of the factories where the Resultant products for export are manufactured.
 

Names and addresses of factories where the ancillaries to the resultant products for export manufactured.
 

Details of Import made :
 

Details of Export made :
 

1. I/we hereby declare that information given in this statement is correct.

2. I/we hereby declare that no benefit under rule 12(1) (b) of rule 13(1)(b) of Central Excise Rules, 1944 has been availed in respect of exports made under this DEEC.

Signature .................
Name of the signatory .................
Designation .................
Full address .................

I have explained the applicant firm"s actual imports and exports as given above and find them as correct.
 

Signature ...............
Seal ....................
Membership No. ..........

I have verified the relevance / useability of the imported materials in the export product as well as the quantity required as given above and certify that the imported materials have been utilised in the export product given in part F of the said certificate (Duty Exemption Entitlement Certificate).
 

Signature .................
Name of the signatory .................
and Seal .................

(Please refer CUS CIR NO. 54/2003 DATE 25/06/2003)