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18 March, 2021

 18th March, 2021
 
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: 12th – 18th March, 2021 are given under. Please click on a notification for the details.

Policy & Customs
 
1.      India – In the online module for filing claims under RoSL application containing shipping bills with Let Export Order (LEO) date between 01.10.2017 and 06.03.2019 are required to be submitted separately. Similarly, separate application containing shipping bills with LEO date before 01.10.2017 needs to be submitted. Last date for submitting applications containing shipping bills with LEO date from 01.10.2017 to 06.03.2019 would be 30.06.2021. The last date for filing application containing shipping bills with LEO date before 01.10.2017 would be 31.12.2021
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Public notice No. 43/2015-20)
Date: 17 March 2021
 
2.      India – Enlisted M/s the Plastic Export Promotion Council under the Appendix 2E of FTB (2015-2020) for issuing Certificate of Origin (Non-Preferential)
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Public notice No. 42/2015-20)
Date: 17 March 2021
 
3.      India – Publishes tariff value of edible oils, brass scrap, areca nut, gold & silver
Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification No. 29/2021-CUSTOMS (N.T.))
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Edible oils, brass scrap, poppy seeds, areca nut, gold and silver
HS Code: 15111000, 15119010, 15119090, 1511100, 15119020, 15119090, 15071000, 740400, 12079100
 
4.      Australia – Publishes Customs Tariff Act 1995
Notification Authority: Department of Customs
Date: 16 March 2021
 
5.      India – Publishes clarifications on GST refund of deemed export supplies
Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Circular No. 147/03//2021-GST)
Date: 12 March 2021
 
6.      India - Government of Andhra Pradesh has been allowed time upto 31.12.2021 to complete the process of export of allocated quantities of Red Sanders wood
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Notification 59/2015-20)
Date: 11 March 2021

Trade Remedies
 
7.      Vietnam - Extends the time limit of investigation and application of anti-dumping measures on some long fiber products made from polyester originating from China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Notification Authority: Ministry of Industry and Trade 
Date: 11 March 2021

Animal & Animal Originated Products
 
8.      Canada – Establishes MRLs for afidopyropendifenoconazoleethaboxamethalfluralin, and pydiflumetofen
Notification Authority: Pest Management Regulatory Agency
Date: 17 March 2021
 
9.      EU – Publishes regulation regarding control on the prohibition of certain uses of antimicrobial veterinary medicinal products with respect to animals and products of animal origin exported to the European Union
Notification Authority: Health and Food Safety Directorate-General
Date: 15 March 2021
 
10.    Australia - Standard import permit for retorted, shelf stable, commercially sterile food products containing animal ingredients for human consumption amended
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture
Date: 12 March 2021
 
11.    Russia – Introduces temporary restriction on import of live sheep and goats; products produced from meat of sheep and goats from Thailand due to the outbreak of ovine rinderpest
Notification Authority: Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor)
Date: 12 March 2021
Products Coverage: Live sheep and goats their products
HS Codes: 0104, 0106, 0204, 0206, 0210, 0401, 0402, 0403, 0404, 0405, 0406, 0506, 0507, 1502, 150300, 150500, 150600000 0, 151610, 151800, 160100, 1602, 160300, 190220)
 
12.    GCC - Publishes labelling requirements for chilled frozen fish, frozen fish fillets products and frozen, chilled crustaceans
Notification Authority: Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization
Date: 11 March 2021
Product Coverage: Fish and fishery products

Plant & Plant Products
 
13.    Argentina – Publishes Mercosur technical regulation on following
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture
Date: 15 March 2021
 
14.    EU - Publishes technical assessment in determining tobacco products with a characterising flavour
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 15 March 2021
 
15.    Ecuador – Proposes sanitary technical rules for control of products for human use and consumption that contain non-psychoactive cannabis or hemp or its derivatives
Notification Authority: Department of Health
Date: 15 March 2021
 
16.    EU - Establishes new maximum levels for cadmium in various fruits, vegetable and cereals
Notification Authority: Health and Food Safety Directorate-General
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Citrus fruits, pome fruits, stone fruits, table olives, kiwi fruits, bananas, mangoes papayas and pineapples, berries and small fruits, tree nuts, radishes, tropical roots and tubers, parsley roots, turnips, beetroots, celeriac, bulb vegetables (except garlic), fruiting vegetables, brassica vegetables, leafy vegetables (except spinaches and similar leaves, mustard seedlings and fresh herbs), legume vegetables, stem vegetables, fungi, pulses, oilseeds (except soy beans), rye, barley, rice , quinoa, wheat bran, wheat gluten, durum wheat, young child formula, drinks for infants and young children labelled and sold as such and salt
 
17.    EU – Publishes temporary measures in relation to controls on the production of organic products
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Organic products; Food products in general
 
18.    USA – Publishes standard for grades of watermelons
Notification Authority: Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Watermelons; Melons, incl. watermelons, and papaws "papayas", fresh
HS Code: 0807
 
19.    Uganda – Publishes following standards
Notification Authority: Uganda Bureau of Standards
Date: 15 March 2021
 
20.    UK - Proposes maximum residue levels (MRLs) for dimethoate and omethoate
Notification Authority: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and The Health and Safety Executive
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Cereals
HS Codes: 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008
 
21.    USA - Establishes tolerances for residues of picarbutrazox in or on multiple commodities
Notification Authority: Environmental Protection Agency
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Corn, field, forage; Corn, field, grain; Corn, field, stover; Corn, pop, grain; Corn, pop, stover; Corn, sweet, forage; Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed; Corn, sweet, stover; Soybean, forage; Soybean, hay; Soybean, seed
 
22.    Brazil - Establishes phytosanitary requirements for the import of zucchini seeds
Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA)
Date: 12 March 2021
Product Coverage: Zucchini seeds (Cucurbita pepo)
 
23.    Canada – Publishes notice of modification to the list of permitted pH adjusting agents, acid-reacting materials and water correcting agents to enable the use of hydrochloric acid in unstandardized foods
Notification Authority: Department of Health
Date: 12 March 2021
 
24.    Australia - Publishes inspection requirements for consignments of peat
Notification Authority: Ministry of Industry and Trade 
Date: 11 March 2021
 
25.    Australia - Publishes inspection requirements for consignments of Coir peat
Notification Authority: Ministry of Industry and Trade 
Date: 11 March 2021

Processed Food
 
26.    Taiwan – Amends food additive regulations
Notification Authority: Food and Drug Administration
Date: 17 March 2021
 
27.    Japan - Publishes amendment to the list of substances that can be used for preservation of alcoholic beverages
Notification Authority: National tax Agency
Date: 16 March 2021
 
28.    Bhutan: Facilitating agro-based SMEs to Implement Food Hygiene and Food Safety Requirements
Notification authority: Ministry of Agriculture and Forests
Date: 15-03-2021
 
29.    EU - Publishes maximum levels of lead in certain foods
Notification Authority: Health and Food Safety Directorate-General
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Infant formulae marketed as powder, processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children, foods for special medical purposes intended for infants and young children marketed as powder, drinks for infants and young children labelled and sold as such, offal, wild fungi, fresh turmeric, fresh ginger, wine, aromatised wine, aromatised wine-based drinks and aromatised wine-product cocktails, liqueur wine made from grapes, dried spices, salt
 
30.    Taiwan – Publishes regulation for the use restrictions and labeling requirements of Astaxanthin produced by genetically modified Escherichia coli strain Ast12 as a food ingredient
Notification Authority: Food and Drug Administration
Date: 12 March 2021
 
31.    Taiwan - Publishes amendment to the regulations governing the product name and labeling of chocolate
Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture
Date: 11 March 2021
 
32.    Thailand – Publishes criteria for displaying message or mark of food production system certification
Notification Authority: Ministry of Health
Date: 11 March 2021
 
33.    GCC - Publishes technical regulation applies to the requirements for the use of terms such as "Fresh, Natural, Pure, and other expressions" in the labelling of food products
Notification Authority: Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization
Date: 11 March 2021
Product Coverage: Food products in general

Chemicals & Textiles
 
34.    Brazil – Proposing draft amendments to revise the monographs for amicarbazone, pyroxasulfone, isoxaflutol, lufenuron, Sophora flavescens, Neochrysocharis formosa, bifenthrin, methomyl, ametryn, and S-metolachlor
Notification Authority: National Health Surveillance Agency
Date: 17 March 2021
 
35.    Brazil – Publishes amendments to the monographs for isofetamidazoxystrobin, and mancozeb
Notification Authority: National Health Surveillance Agency
Date: 16 March 2021
 
36.    EU – Amended regulation regarding regards the use of Methyl-N-methylanthranilate in cosmetic products
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Cosmetic products
HS Code: 33, 3401
 
37.    EU - Approves active substance abamectin with restriction to uses in permanent greenhouses
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Abamectin
 
38.    Israel - Publishes decree to ease the conformity assessment requirements for imported products subject to Israel mandatory standards
Notification Authority: Israel WTO-TBT Enquiry Point
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: All products and commodities subject to mandatory standards
 
39.    Brazil – Following active ingredient approved for use in for pesticides, household cleaning products and wood preservers
Notification Authority: Secretariat of Animal and Plant Health and Inspection (SDA)
Date: 12 March 2021
 
40.    EU - Publishes regulation regarding non-renewal of approval of the active substance famoxadone
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 11 March 2021
Product Coverage: Famoxadone
 
41.    Hong Kong - Publishes antibiotics regulations
Notification Authority: Department of Chemical
Date: 11 March 2021

Engineering & Electronics
 
42.    India - Publishes norms for network testing before commercial launch of wireline access services
Notification Authority: Department of Telecommunication Notification
Date: 10 March 2021
 
43.    EU - Publishes decision regarding harmonised standards for electromagnetic compatibility of control circuit devices and switching elements, and multimedia equipment
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 15 March 2021
 
44.    Jamaica – Publishes standard specification for transportable gas cylinders
Notification Authority: Bureau of Standards Jamaica
Date: 15 March 2021
Product Coverage: Transportable gas containers
 
45.    Russia - Labelling requirements for light industry amended
Notification Authority: Eurasian Economic Commission
Date: 12 March 2021
 
46.    India - Publishes notification regarding second round of PLI for large scale electronics manufacturing
Notification Authority: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Date: 11 March 2021
 
47.    India - Publishes amendments to Unified Access Services license Agreement (UASL) for procurement of telecommunication equipment
Notification Authority: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Date: 11 March 2021
 
48.    India - Publishes supplementary guidelines on second round of PLI scheme for large scale electronics manufacturing
Notification Authority: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Date: 11 March 2021
 
49.    UK - Publishes Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021
Notification Authority: Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
Date: 11 March 2021

Regulatory Developments in India
 
50.    India - MNRE imposes basic customs duty on Solar PV Cells and modules or panel
Notification Authority: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
Date: 15 March 2021
 
51.    India - Issued the Unmanned Aircraft System Rules, 2021
Notification Authority: Ministry of Civil Aviation
Date: 15 March 2021
 
52.    India - Mandated the use of Central Inspection System (CIS) developed by Karnataka Udyog Mitra through a state single window called ebiz portal with effect from March 22, 2021
Notification Authority: State Government of Karnataka
Date: 12 March 2021
 
53.    India - Issued the draft Central Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Rules, 2021 to further amend the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989
Notification Authority: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)
Date: 12 March 2021

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