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10 September, 2020

10th September, 2020
 
Alerts from the Indian Trade Portal – www.indiantradeportal.in on Tariff/Preferential Tariff/ SPS and TBT measures/GST/Export incentives/Export-Import Policy Conditions etc. during the period: 4 – 10 September 2020 are given under. Please click on a notification for the details.
 
TRADE
Export Norms
 
1. India - Export of finished leather: dyeing and waxing norms tightened for finished leather exports
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Notification no 15-PN/2015-20)
Date: 4 September 2020
Customs
 
2. India – Circular on auto let export order under express cargo clearance system (ECCS) issued.
Notification Authority: Department of Revenue (Circular no 41/2020)
Date: 7 September 2020
 
3. India - Seeks to amend notification No. 50/2017-Customs, dated 30.06.2017 so as to exempt BCD on paper based taggants, including M-Feature.
Notification Authority: Department of Revenue (Notification No. 33 /2020 –Customs)
Date: 7 September 2020
 
4. India - Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) Units- 5 and 6 (1000 MW x 2) included in list of goods required for setting up of any Nuclear Power Project so as to exempt goods for custom duty
Notification Authority: Department of Revenue (Notification No. 32 /2020 –Customs)
Date: 7 September 2020
 
5. India - Roll-out faceless assessment in all ports at all india level for all imported goods by 31 Oct 2020
Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification no 40-CBEC/2020- Customs)
Date: 4 September 2020
 
6. India - Fulbari, Changrabandha and Jaigaon allowed transshipment for exports to Nepal or Bangladesh
Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification no 39-CBIC/2020-Customs)
Date: 4 September 2020
 
7. India - 11 National assessment centres headed by chief commissioners constituted
Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification no 85-Cus(NT)
Date: 4 September 2020
 
8. India - Exchange rate of one unit of foreign currency equivalent to Indian rupees notified
Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs) Notification No. 84/2020 - Customs (N.T.)
Date: 3 September 2020
 
ANTIDUMPING/ SAFEGUARD/ COUNTERVAILING DUTY
Antidumping Duty
 
9. India – Initiation of anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of "Vitamin C" from China PR
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies
Date: 4 September 2020
Product Coverage: Vitamin C
HS Code: 29362700
 
10. India - Final PCN methodology adopted for anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of “Polyester Yarn (Polyester Spun Yarn)” from China PR, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Polyester Yarn
HS Code: 55092100
 
Countervailing Duty
 
11. India - Proposed PCN methodology for anti-subsidy investigation concerning imports of “Viscose Rayon Filament Yarn above 60 deniers” originating in or exported from China PR
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies
Date: 4 September 2020
Product Coverage: Viscose Rayon Filament Yarn above 60 deniers
HS Code: 540120, 540331, 540332, 540341
 
AGRICULTURE
Animal Originated Products
 
12. Taiwan – Amending Regulation on imported beef and beef products from the United States and Canada
Notification Authority: Food and Drug administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Beef and beef products
HS Code: 0202
 
13. Taiwan – Establishes maximum residue limits for Ractopamine in pigs
Notification Authority: Ministry of Health and Welfare
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Pigs tissues
 
14. Taiwan – Publishes procedure for the recognition of infectious animal disease-free status of a foreign country
Notification Authority: Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine,
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Animals and Animal Products
HS codes: 01, 02, 0401, 0402, 0407, 0408, 0410, 0502, 0504, 0505, 0506, 0507, 0510, 0511, 1214, 1502, 1506, 1601, 1602, 1902, 1904, 1905, 2104, 2301, 2308, 2309, 3001, 3002, 3101, 3105, 3502, 4101, 4102, 4103, 4205, 4301, 4601, 5101, 5102, 5103, 6701
 
15. Japan - Introduced new standard for organic turkey
Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Organic turkey
HS Code: 020727
 
16. EU - Establishes maximum levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in meat and meat products and food of plant origin used for the preparation of beverages
Notification Authority: European Commission (Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/1255)
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Meat products and food of plant origin
 
17. Cambodia – Notification on introduction of measures for Nutrilatt milk powder products published
Notification Authority: Ministry of Trade
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Milk Powder
 
18. Thailand - Temporary suspended importation of live poultry and poultry carcasses from Germany to prevent the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Serotype H5N8)
Notification Authority: Department of Livestock Development (DLD)
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Live poultry and poultry carcasses
HS Code: 0105, 0207, 0407, 0408, 0505
 
19. Thailand - Temporary suspended importation of live poultry and poultry carcasses from South Africa to prevent the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Serotype H5N8)
Notification Authority: Department of Livestock Development (DLD)
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Live poultry and poultry carcasses
HS Code : 0105, 0207, 0407, 0408, 0505
 
20. Thailand - Temporary suspended of importation of live poultry and poultry carcasses from Indonesia to prevent the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).
Notification Authority: Department of Livestock Development (DLD)
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Live poultry and poultry carcasses
HS Code: 0105, 0207, 0407, 0408, 0505
 
21. Thailand - Temporary suspended importation of live domestic pigs and wild pigs and their carcasses from Laos to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever
Notification Authority: Department of Livestock Development (DLD)
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Live domestic pigs and their carcasses
HS Code: 0103, 0203, 0502.10.00
 
22. Thailand - Temporary suspended importation of live domestic pigs and wild pigs and their carcasses from Cambodia to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever
Notification Authority: Department of Livestock Development (DLD)
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Live domestic pigs and their carcasses
HS Code: 0103, 0203, 0502.10.00
 
23. Thailand – Temporary suspended importation of live poultry and poultry carcasses from Vietnam to prevent the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Serotype H5N6 and H5N1).
Notification Authority: Department of Livestock Development (DLD)
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Live poultry and poultry carcasses
HS Code: 0105, 0207, 0407, 0408, 0505
 
24. UAE - Imposing temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their untreated by-products from Omskaya Oblast in Russia
Notification Authority: Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE)
Product Coverage: Live poultry
Date: 3 September 2020
HS Code: 0105
 
25. South Korea - Decree on the safety and support of advanced regenerative medicine and advanced biopharmaceuticals
Notification Authority: Ministry of Health [President Decree No. 30979]
Date: 3 September 2020
Plants & Plant Products
 
26. Australia – Establishes import conditions for fresh pomegranates imported from India
Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture
Date: 9 September 2020
 
27. EU - Commission fixing import duties for certain types of husked rice from 9 September 2020
Notification Authority: European Commission (Regulation (EU) 2020/1259)
Date: 9 September 2020
 
28. Thailand – List of plants and parts of plant used as ingredient for tea infusion amended
Notification Authority: Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)
Product Coverage: Tea infusion
HS Code: 0902
 
29. Malaysia – Establishes 6 maximum residue limits (MRLs) for 4 new pesticides (metaflumizone, metominostrobin, oxathiapiprolin and saflufenacil)
Notification Authority: Ministry of Health Malaysia
Product Coverage: Peas, Sweet corn, tomato, cucumber, melons, Palm oil and its fraction
HS Code: 0708, 0710, 0702, 0707, 0807, 151790
 
30. USA - Establishes tolerances for residues of tiafenacil in or on multiple commodities
Notification Authority: Environmental Protection Agency
Date: 7 September 2020
 
31. New Zealand – Publishes measures for pospiviroids on solanum lycopersicum and petunia seeds for sowing
Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Petunia seeds
HS Code: 120999
 
32. Australia - Import conditions published on BICON for the importation of fresh whole pomegranates from India. Import conditions include the requirement for fresh whole pomegranates from India to undergo in-transit cold treatment as a phytosanitary measure to manage fruit flies of economic significance. For more information contact imports@agriculture.gov.au
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Date: 4 September 2020
Product Coverage: Pomegranate
HS Code: 08109010
Food
 
33. India - Direction regarding strict compliance with provisions of infant milk substitute, feeding bottles and infant food (regulation of production, supply and distribution) act, 1992 amended
Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Food products
 
34. India - FSSAI proposes ten-point charter for food supplied to school children
Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Food products
 
35. India – Proposes maximum residue limits of pesticide, tolerance limit of antibiotic and toxins
Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Food products
 
36. Canada – Establishes maximum residue limit for bixafen
Notification Authority: Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency
Date: 9 September 2020
 
37. Taiwan - Proposes to regulate the labeling requirement on country of origin for bulk food that contain pork and other edible parts of pig to provide consumers information for choice
Notification Authority: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Meat and edible meat offal
HS Code: 02
 
38. Brazil – Publishes amendments to pesticides maximum residue limit
Notification Authority: National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA)
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Allium sativum, cuprous oxide, fenpropathrin, glyphosate, novaluron, pyriproxyfen, mesotrione, fipronil, lambda-cyhalothrin, fluquinconazole, atrazine, methomyl, tebuthiuron, oxyfluorfen, propiconazole, tebuconazole, teflubenzuron, acetamiprid, fluazinam, cymoxanil, quizalofop, Pethyl, famoxadone, dinotefuran, spinetoram, diafenthiuron, flutriafol, chlorantraniliprole, and flupyradifurone
 
39. South Korea – Publishes regulations on labeling and advertising of food
Notification Authority: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Food
 
40. India - Letter related to licensing carrying out food business operations by the Municipalities of Delhi / New Delhi published
Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
Date: 7 September 2020
 
41. Australia – Pesticide MRLs amended: Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Instrument 2019 published
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture
Date: 28 August 2020
Product Coverage: Pesticides
 
42. USA - Establishes tolerances for residues of tiafenacil
Notification Authority: Environmental Protection Agency
Date: 7 September 2020
 
43. EU - Establishes measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 7 September 2020
Product Coverage: Seeds, plants and fruits of Solanum lycopersicum L. and Capsicum spp.
 
CHEMICAL
 
44. EU – Seek to include carbon dioxide generated from propane, butane or a mixture of both by combustion as an active substance
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Biocidal products
HS Code: 3808
 
45. EU – Publishes decision on non-approval of following active substance for use in biocidal products
·         Carbon dioxide
·         Esbiothrin
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Biocidal products
HS Code: 3808
 
46. Czech Republic – Publishes decree on the implementation of certain measures related to the prohibition of chemical weapons
Notification Authority: State Office for Nuclear Safety
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Handling of toxic chemicals and their precursors,
HS Code: 38
 
47. Australia – Imported Bryonia collosa requires mandatory testing for cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (GCMMV), Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) and fungicide treatment of Diaporthe cucurbitae.
Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture
Date: 8 September 2020
 
48. China – Publishes guidelines for environmental management registration of new chemical substances
Notification Authority: Ministry of Ecology and Environment
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: New chemical substances
Pharmaceuticals
 
49. Mexico – Publishes regulation on sanitary control for the production, research and medicinal use of cannabis and its pharmacological derivatives
Notification Authority: Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks
Date: 9 September 2020
Product Coverage: Cannabis and its pharmacological derivatives
 
50. Chile - Process of sanitary registration of pharmaceutical products published
Notification Authority: Ministry of Health (MINSAL)
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Pharmaceutical Products
HS Code: 30
 
51. EU – Seek review of authorisations for plant protection products containing fenpyrazamine as an active substance
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Fenpyrazamine
 
52. Australia – Approved list of drugs for sale in Australia published
Notification Authority: Department of Health
Date: 7 September 2020
Product Coverage: Drugs
HS Code: 30
 
53. South Korea - Rules on the safety and support of advanced biopharmaceuticals published
Notification Authority: Ministry of Health (Prime Minister Decree No. 1641)
Date: 7 September 2020
Cosmetics
 
54. China - Classification rules and catalogue of cosmetics published
Notification Authority: National Medical Products Administration
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Cosmetics
HS Code: 33
 
55. China – Publishes guidelines for safety assessment of cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients to ensure the safety of cosmetics
Notification Authority: National Medical Products Administration
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Cosmetics
HS Code: 33
 
56. Denmark - Sale of toxic or very toxic pesticides and biocides requires a permission from the Danish Environmental Agency
Notification Authority: Ministry of Food and Environment
Date: 7 September 2020
Product Coverage: toxic or very toxic pesticides and biocides
 
ENGINEERING
 
57. EU - Granules or mulches not allowed for use or used as infill material in synthetic turf pitches or in loose form on playgrounds or in sport applications if they contain more than 20 mg/kg (0,002 % by weight) of the sum of the eight listed PAHs
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Polycyclic-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in granules or mulches
 
58. China – Publishes supervision regulation on safety technology for gas cylinder
Notification Authority: State Administration
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Gas Cylinder
 
59. Uganda - WDUS 2256:2020 standard specification for retroreflective sheeting for traffic control
Notification Authority: Uganda National Bureau of Standards
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Retroreflective Sheeting; Articles of plastics, Road equipment and installations
HS Code: 392690
 
60. Brazil – Establishes resolution provides for the specification and control of the quality of liquefied petroleum gases (GLP)
Notification Authority: National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels – ANP
Date: 3 September 2020
Product Coverage: Natural gas
HS Code: 271111
Children Goods
 
61. USA – Publishes safety standards for full-size baby cribs and non-full-size baby cribs
Notification Authority: Consumer Product Safety Commission
Date: 9 September 2020
 
62. EU – Notify specific limit values for aniline in certain toys
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 8 September 2020
Product Coverage: Children's toys
HS Code: 9503
Automobile
 
63. Laos - Import of tractors under customs section 8701 will no longer be allowed
Notification Authority: Ministry of Trade
Date: 7 September 2020
 
64. Vietnam - Circular issued on national technical regulation on VHF telephone equipment used on life-saving vehicles
Notification Authority: Ministry of Information and Communications
Date: 3 September 2020
 
65. Australia – Publishes Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956
Notification Authority: Department of Customs
Date: 3 September 2020

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