Weekly Trade Alert: 16 – 23 January
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Federation of Indian Export Organisations
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Here is a comprehensive update of developments from India’s foreign trade during 16 – 23 January.
India
Authority: Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO)
Notification: The MFN/preferential tariff of India has been updated on the Indian Trade Portal as on 22 Jan 2020 – www.indiantradeportal.in.
Date: 23 Jan 2020
Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Notification: Inviting suggestion on including entries under ‘Others’ category in HS
Notification number: Trade Notice No. 46/2019-20
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs
Notification: Clarification relating to import of gifts published
Notification number: Circular No. 04/2020-Customs
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs
Notification: Exchange rate of one unit of foreign currency equivalent to Indian rupees
Notification number: Notification No.05/2020 - Customs (N.T.)
Date: 16 Jan 2020
Authority: Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
Notification: Steel Tubes (Quality Control) Order, 2020 published
Notification number: S.O. 281(E)
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Authority: Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
Notification: Cables (Quality Control) Order, 2020 published
Notification number: S.O. 280(E)
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Finance
Notification: Now the GST Taxpayers can file their GSTR-3B Returns in a Staggered Manner
Notification number: Press Release
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Notification: India has successfully achieved the complete phase out of Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC)-141 b most potent ozone depleting chemical
Notification number: Press Release
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Authority: Food Safety and Standard Authority of India
Notification: Rectification process for cases of minor labelling defects published
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Authority: Department of Agriculture, Co-operation and Farmers Welfare
Notification: Insecticides (Amendment) Rules, 2020 published.
Notification number: G.S.R. 07(E)
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Authority: Department of Agriculture, Co-operation and Farmers Welfare
Notification: Exemption for Laboratories under the Insecticides Act, 1968 notified
Notification number: S.O. 93(E)
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Authority: Department of Consumer Affairs
Notification: Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts Order, 2020 published
Notification number: S.O. 205(E)
Date: 15 Jan 2020
Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies
Notification: Initiation of anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of “Newsprint in rolls or sheets, excluding glazed newsprint” originating in or exported from Australia, Canada, European Union, Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore and United Arab Emirates
Notification number: Case No.OI-31/2019
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies
Notification: Initiation of anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of “Viscose Spun Yarn” originating in or exported from China PR, Indonesia and Vietnam
Notification number: Case No.OI-32/2019
Date: 15 Jan 2020
Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies
Notification: Initiation of Anti-Dumping Original Investigation concerning imports of Dimethyl Formamide (DMF) from China PR & Saudi Arabia
Notification number: Case No.OI-29/2019
Date: 15 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Notification: Khadi fights back to prevent misuse of its Trademarks Internationally
Notification number: Press Release
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Notification: KVIC approves Khadi Rumal Stitching charges for Women working at KVIC centre Nagrota (J&K): Approved the enhancement of wages from Rs. 2 to Rs. 3 per piece w.e.f. 1st Jan 2020.
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Authority: Reserve Bank of India
Notification: Introduction of Rupee derivatives at International Financial Services Centres (IFSC)
Notification number: RBI/2019-2020/145 A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.17
Date: 20 Jan 2020
ASEAN
Country: Philippines
Authority: Department of Agriculture
Notification: Emergency ban imposed on importation of domestic and wild pigs and their products, including pork meat, pig skin and semen from Indonesia
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: Malaysia
Authority: Attorney General’s Chambers
Notification: Price control and anti-profiteering (determination of maximum price) order 2020 published
Notification number: P.U. (A) 16/2020
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Country: Malaysia
Authority: Attorney General’s Chambers
Notification: Control of supplies (controlled articles) order 2020 published
Notification number: P.U. (A) 15/2020
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Country: Malaysia
Authority: Attorney General’s Chambers
Notification: Pesticides (exemption) (no. 2) order 2020 published
Notification number: P.U. (A) 11/2020
Date: 14 Jan 2020
Country: Malaysia
Authority: Attorney General’s Chambers
Notification: Pesticides (exemption) order 2020 published
Notification number: P.U. (A) 10/2020
Date: 14 Jan 2020
Country: Vietnam
Authority: NIL
Notification: The Government details a number of articles and measures for implementing Fisheries Law
Notification number: Decree No. 12/2020/ND-CP
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Country: Vietnam
Authority: Ministry of Industry and Trade
Notification: Regulates the import of raw tobacco according to the tariff quotas of 2020
Notification number: Circular No. 01/2020 TT-BCT
Date: 21 Jan 2020
European Union
Country: United Kingdom
Authority: NIL
Notification: The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2020 published
Notification number: Welsh Statutory Instruments
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: EU
Authority: European Commission
Notification: Type-approval of motor vehicles with respect to emissions from light passenger and commercial vehicles (Euro 5 and Euro 6) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information, amending Directive 2007/46/EC and Regulation (EC) No 692/2008 & 1230/2012 692/2008
Notification number: Regulation (EU) 2020/49
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Country: Denmark
Authority: Ministry of the Environment and Food
Notification: Executive order on organic food and organic aquaculture published
Notification number: BEK No. 48
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Country: Denmark
Authority: Ministry of the Environment and Food
Notification: Order of veterinary law published which is applicable for manufacturing, importing, exporting, storing, distributing or packaging pharmaceuticals for animals
Notification number:
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Country: Denmark
Authority: Ministry of the Environment and Food
Notification: Order of the ecology act published which applies to the production, storage, preparation, import and marketing of organic agricultural and fishery products, including food
Notification number: LBK No. 39
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Country: France
Authority: Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control
Notification: Authorities are alerting parents and carers to the risk of water-absorbing gel beads being ingested by children, particularly the under-fives. If non-compliant and hazardous water beads were to be identified as toy accessories, they would be withdrawn/recalled
Notification number: Press Release
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Japan
Authority: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Notification: Proposing partial amendment of regulations for radio equipment by May 2020
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Notification: Published an updated version of the Standards for Use for Food Additives
Notification number: NIL
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Notification: Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural Pesticides: Thifluzamide – for Meat & fish products, Dairy produce and birds’’ eggs, Animal originated products, Vegetables, Mate, Cereals, Oil seeds, Animal fats, Permethrin - for vegetables, fruits, nuts and peel of citrus fruit, Coffee, tea, mate and spices, Cereals, Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, Cacao, Benthiavalicarb-isopropyl - for fruit and peel of citrus fruit, Vegetable, Spices, Oil seeds, Iminoctadine – for vegetables, fruits, nuts and peel of citrus fruit, Coffee, tea, mate and spices, Cereals, Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, Cacao, Metyltetraprole – for Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic, fruit & tea, Oil seeds, From above Permethrin, Thifluzamide are registered Insecticides/Pesticides under Insecticides Act, 1968 of India
Notification number: NIL
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Notification: Proposes to authorise Difenoconazole as a food additive and establishment of the specifications and the standards
Notification number: NIL
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Authority: Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Agency
Notification: List of drugs approved from April 2019 to November 2019 published
Notification number: NIL
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Notification: Proposes for revision of quarantine pest list for enforcement of the plant protection act
Notification number: NIL
Date: 15 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Notification number: NIL
Date: 15 Jan 2020
Authority: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Notification number: NIL
Date: 15 Jan 2020
China, Nepal, South Korea, Australia & Russia
Country: Australia
Authority: Department of Agriculture
Notification: Changes to service standards for inspection bookings
Notification number: Import Industry Advice Notice No. 07-2020
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: Australia
Authority: Department of Agriculture
Notification: Clarifies the existing requirements for the import of cheese and butter
Notification number: NIL
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Country: Australia
Authority: NIL
Notification: Advisory to importer adjusting goods and/or packaging prior to onshore Brown Marmorated Stink bug treatment
Notification number: Import Industry Advice Notice No. 05-2020
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Country: China
Authority: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: Nepal
Authority: Department of Food Technology and Quality Control
Notification: List of Organic certified product published
Notification number: NIL
Date: 16 Jan 2020
Country: Russia
Authority: Eurasian Economic Council
Notification: Customs duty reduced to 0% on foil for stamping classified under HS 3212100000 till 31 August 2022
Notification number: Decision no 2
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Country: Russia
Authority: Russian Government
Notification: Changes to the unified list of products subject to mandatory certification
Notification number: Decree no 14
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Country: South Korea
Authority: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
Notification: Enforcement Rules of the Cosmetics Act amended
Notification number: Prime Ministerial Decree No. 01592
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: South Korea
Authority: Korea Food and Drug Administration
Notification: List of generic drugs whose patent has expired published
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
North America
Country: USA
Authority: Environmental Protection Agency
Notification: Establishes tolerances for residues of fenhexamid in or on multiple commodities
Notification number: Rule No. 2020-00080
Date: 16 Jan 2020
Country: Canada
Authority: Health Canada’’s Food Directorate
Notification: Modification to the List of Permitted Food Enzymes to Enable the Use of Glucose Oxidase from Aspergillus niger J39 in Various Foods
Notification number: Ref. No. NOM/ADM-0142
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Country: Canada
Authority: Health Canada’’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency
Notification: Established MRLs for ethylene oxide and ethylene chlorohydrin
Notification number: NIL
Date: 16 Jan 2020
GCC
Country: Saudi Arabia
Authority: Saudi Food and Drug Authority
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: Saudi Arabia
Authority: Saudi Food and Drug Authority
Notification: Guideline on Pharmacovigilance for veterinary products published
Notification number: NIL
Date: 21 Jan 2020
Country: UAE
Authority: Ministry of Climate Change and Environment
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: UAE
Authority: Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE)
Notification: Imposing a temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-product, day-old chicks, hatching eggs from: Hungary, Romania
Notification number: NIL
Date: 16 Jan 2020
Iran, Taiwan, Paraguay South Africa
Country: Iran
Authority: Ministry of Health
Notification: Health certificate acceptance requirements for imported raw materials and process published
Notification number: NIL
Date: NIL
Country: Taiwan
Authority: Ministry of Health and Welfare
Notification number: NIL
Date: 20 Jan 2020
Country: Paraguay
Authority: National Plant and Seed Quality and Health Service
Notification: Guidelines for the establishment of pesticide use standards and maximum residue limits for minor crops published
Notification number: NIL
Date: 22 Jan 2020
Country: South Africa
Authority: Republic of South Africa
Notification: Changes customs duties applicable on HS 100191, 100199 & HS 1101
Notification number: No. R. 36
Date: 17 Jan 2020
Country: South Africa
Authority: Economic Development Department
Notification number: Notice 8
Date: 17 Jan 2020
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