Alerts from the Indian Trade Portal on Tariff/Preferential Tariff/ SPS and TBT measures/GST/Export incentives/Export-Import Policy Conditions etc. during the period: 29 January - 4 February 2021 are given under. Please click on a notification for the details.

Policy & Customs

• India - Publishes tariff value of edible oils, brass scrap, poppy seed, areca nut, gold & silver
  

• India – Publishes circular regarding Systemic improvements regarding modification in the bond (B-17) execution process
  

• India – Publishes advisory on filing shipping bill and bill of entry pre- and post-budget
  

• India - Import policy of Coal: Import after 1 April 2021 shall be governed by Coal Import Monitoring System (CIMS) and online registration will be available from 15 Feb 2021

Taxes

• India – Publishes effective rate of Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess for specified goods
  

• India - Crude or roughly trimmed or Blocks Marble or travertine exempted from Social Welfare Surcharge
  

• India - Amended Customs (Import of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty) Rules, 2017
  

• India - Amended notification No. 50/2017-Customs dated 30th June, 2017 regarding effective rate of Basic Customs Duty (BCD)
  

• India - Amended basic custom duty rate on IT/Electronics items
  

• India - Withdraw basic customs duty exemption on the specified parts of transformers

Trade Remedies

• India - Extends time to complete the investigation in the safeguard (Quantitive Restrictions) concerning imports of “Isopropyl Alcohol” in India
  

• India - Publishes list of interested parties for anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of ‘Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)’ from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, UAE and USA
  

• India – Publishes final findings of anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of “Phenol” into India originating from Thailand and USA
  

• India – Publishes anti-dumping investigation concerning the imports of Toluene DiIsocyanate from EU, Saudi Arabia, Chinese Taipei and UAE.
  

• India - Final finding on Anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of "l-Phen1’’l-3-trleth1l-5- Pyrazolone" originating from China PR

Animal & Animal Originated Products 

• Brazil - Establishes procedures for the adequacy of registration of veterinary products
  

• Colombia – Publishes regulation on compliance procedure for imported veterinary medicinal products
  

• GCC - Updating the UAE GCC technical regulation on Honey
  

• Philippines – Imposes mandated price celling on selected pork and chicken products
  

• Taiwan - Publishes standards for pesticide residue limits in animal products

Plant & Plant Products

• Australia – Publishes advisory on import of Full Container Load (FCL) consignments of seeds, grains and dried plant products
  

• EU – Withdraw approval of Alpha-cypermethrin from list of approved pesticides
  

• Israel - Revises mandatory standard SI 877 part 1 dealing with the frozen vegetables and fruits
  

• Malaysia– Publishes import requirements for importation of grains and grain products into Malaysia, 2021
  

• Russia - Includes mushroom spawn to the List of quarantined products with a high phytosanitary risk
  

• Thailand – Proposes import conditions for Tomato seeds, Maize seeds, Eggplant seeds, Capsicum seeds for sowing into Thailand

Processed Food

• Australia - Proposes maximum residue limits (MRLs) for various agricultural and veterinary chemicals
  

• Brazil – Publishes amendments to the pesticides monographs for flupyradifurone, pirimiphos-methyl, imidacloprid, and Neoseiulus idaeus
  

• Canada – Approved use of xylanase from aspergillus acidus RF7398 in specified flour and flour bakery products
  

• EU – Authorises rapeseed powder from Brassica rapa L. and Brassica napus L. as a novel food
  

• Japan – Publishes revision of some standards for foods, additives, etc. (azoxystrobin, ciflufenamide, bixaphen, pyrifluquinazone, pyriproxyfen)
  

• India – Publishes Draft Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Amendment Regulations, 2021
  

• Paraguay – Publishes Mercosur technical regulation for Use of Food Additives, Pepper, Pre-measured or prepackaged products and Strawberry
  

• Tajikistan - Publishes technical regulation "Alcohol Products Safety"
  

• Taiwan – Publishes regulation on foods, food additives, food utensils, food containers or packaging

Chemicals & Textile

• Australia – Publishes Poisons Standard February 2021
  

• Argentina – Publishes requirements of applicable labels on all types of new clothing
  

• EU - Publishes list of approved medicinal products
  

• India - Publishes Rapid / CLIA / ELISA Kits approved for testing of Covid-19 as on 01.02.2021
  

• Japan – Publishes order for enforcement of the act on the evaluation of chemical substances and regulation of their manufacture
  

• Laos – Publishes conditions, registered capital, fees, service fees and annual management fees for licensing and operation of subsystem controllers
  

• Laos – Publishes procedures for applying for certificates and permits for import-export capital in Lao PDR
  

• Tajikistan – Publishes technical regulation "Safety of paintwork materials”

Engineering & Electronics

• Rules 2021
  

• Japan – Publishes partial amendment to the Radio Law
  

• Malawi - Publishes standard on Cement
  

• Mexico – Publishes technical specifications for compliance with the maximum limits of radioelectric emissions
  

• Myanmar - Publishes import conditions for reconditioned machine
  

• Paraguay - Publishes Mercosur technical regulation of household appliances and similar
  

• Philippines – Publishes memorandum circular for mandatory product certification of ceramic tiles
  

• Saudi Arabia – Publishes technical regulation on Refrigerator and Electrical Clothes Washing Machines
  

• Thailand – Publishes regulation prescribing description, production and method of displaying of standard marks on the industrial products

Regulatory Developments in India

• India - Issued directions to adopt the classification of industrial sectors into red, orange, green and white categories
  

• India - Amended the Indian standards for certain items and has extended the date till which the standard shall apply without amendment till February 18, 2021.
  

• India - Issued off-site emergency plan under Rule 14 of the Manufacture, Storage, and Import of Hazardous Chemical Rules, 1989 to prepare the state in case of emergencies.
  

• India – Issued a circular for guidelines for handling Bio-medical waste management such as pleural fluid, ascetic fluid, HBs AG positive blood, placenta etc. to various pharmaceutical industries
  

• India – Publishes Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2021
  

• India - Issued the Designs (Amendment) Rules, 2021 to further amend the Designs Rules 2001.

Click here for more details on Weekly Trade Alerts from 22 - 28 January 2021 from the India Trade Portal.

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