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15 April, 2021

15th April, 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: 9th – 15th April, 2021 are given under. Please click on a notification for the details.
COVID Updates
 
1.      India – Publishes COVID guidelines for Rajasthan
Notification Authority: Government of Rajasthan
Date: 13 April 2021
 
2.      India – Publishes circular regarding break the chain: operational guidelines for manufacturing units
Notification Authority: Development Commissioner (Industries) Maharashtra
Date: 14 April 2021
 
3.      India – Publishes synopsis of Maharashtra order for break the chain (strict lockdown)
Notification Authority: Development Commissioner (Industries) Maharashtra
Date: 13 April 2021
 
4.      India - Issued an order regarding measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. There shall be prohibition on movement of individuals for all non-essential activities between 9:00 PM to 5:00 AM in the state of Haryana
Notification Authority: Haryana State Disaster Management Authority
Date: 12 April 2021
 
5.      UK - Publishes regulation to require the validation of all Covid-19 detection tests for human use made available for private sale
Notification Authority: Department of Health and Social Care
Date: 11 April 2021
Product Coverage: Covid-19 detection tests
HS Code: 3822
Customs & Banking
 
6.      India - Allocates additional quantity of 3675.13 MT (raw/refined) sugar to UK under TRQ scheme for the year 2020-21. Check export policy updated on www.indiantradeportal.in
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade
Date: 13 April 2021
 
7.      India - Interest Equalization Scheme on Pre and Post Shipment Rupee Export Credit extended for 3 months
Notification Authority: Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Date: 12 April 2021
 
8.      Australia – Publishes Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956
Notification Authority: Department of Customs
Date: 14 April 2021
 
9.      Australia – Publishes Customs Act 1901
Notification Authority: Department of Customs
Date: 14 April 2021
 
10.    Russia - Grain harvesters falling under HS 8433510001 and 8433510009 allowed temporary importation for 2 years
Notification Authority: Eurasian Economic Commission
Date: 12 April 2021
 
11.    India - Export Policy of Injection Remdesivir and Remdesivir API changed from `Free’ to `Prohibited’
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Notification 01/2015-20)
Date: 11 April 2021
 
12.    India - No Late Cuts for MEIS Shipping Bills upto 30 Sept 2021
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Public Notice 53/2015-20)
Date: 9 April 2021
 
13.    India - Publishes amendment to customs notifications to make changes consequential to enactment of Finance Act, 2021.
Notification Authority: Department of Revenue (Notification No. 26/2021 – Customs)
Date: 9 April 2021
 
14.    Russia - Establishes zero rate of import customs duty for oxalic acid, its salts and esters classified by code 2917110000
Notification Authority: Eurasian Economic Commission
Date: 9 April 2021
Trade Remedies
 
15.    India – Publishes final PCN methodology in the sunset review of anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of Tyre Curing Presses for Tyres originating in or exported from China PR
Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies
Date: 13 April 2021
Product Coverage: Tyre Curing Presses for Tyres
HS Code: 84775100.
 
16.    India - Imposes anti-dumping duty on imports of Normal Butanol or N-Butyl alcohol originating in or exported from European Union, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and United States of America for a further period of 5 years.
Notification Authority: Department of Revenue (Notification No. 26/2021 – Customs)
Date: 12 April 2021
Product Coverage: Normal Butanol or N-Butyl alcohol
HS Code: 29051300
 
17.    Malaysia–Publishes Customs (Anti-Dumping Duties) (No. 3) 2020 (Amendment) Order 2021
Notification Authority: Department of Revenue
Date: 12 April 2021
Animals & Animal Products
 
18.    Australia - Amended the import permit conditions that allow bovine dairy for human consumption to be repurposed as animal feed if it becomes unfit for human consumption
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture
Date: 12 April 2021
 
19.    Australia – Publishes additional information for importation of shelf-stable prawns and prawn products
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture
Date: 14 April 2021
 
20.    Egypt - Publishes decree concerned with detection of rancidity in meat, poultry and fish and its products
Notification Authority: Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality (EOS)
Date: 12 April 2021
Product Coverage: Meat and meat products
 
21.    EU – Publishes import conditions for live snails, for composite products and for casings placed on the market for human consumption
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 8 April 2021
 
22.    Japan – Publishes ministerial ordinance on specifications and standards of pet food
Notification Authority: Ministry of Health
Date: 8 April 2021
 
23.    South Africa – Publishes compulsory specification for frozen lobsters and frozen lobster products derived therefrom
Notification Authority: Department of Trade, Industry and Competition
Date: 8 April 2021
Product Coverage: Fish and Crustaceans, Molluscs and Other Aquatic Invertebrates
HS Code 03
Plants & Plant Products
 
24.    India – Publishes letter regarding guidance for grant of license for manufacture / processing of Tapioca Sago and other Starches in the same premises 
Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
Date: 12 April 2021
 
25.    Australia - Publishes revised list of countries that are regulated for khapra beetle
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Date: 9 April 2021
 
26.    Brazil – Publishes requirements for following regulated articles
Notification Authority: Secretariat of Animal and Plant Health and Inspection (SDA)
Date: 9 April 2021
 
27.    Kyrgyz Republic - Publishes quarantine phytosanitary requirements for mushroom spawn
Notification Authority: Eurasian Economic Commission
Date: 9 April 2021
Product Coverage: Mushroom spawn
HS Code: 0602
 
28.    EU - Proposes MRLs for mandestrobin in grapes and strawberries
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 9 April 2021
 
29.    EU - Publishes regulation to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin
Notification Authority: European Commission (Regulation 2021/601)
Date: 14 April 2021
 
30.    Malaysia – Publishes Pesticides (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2021
Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries
Date: 13 April 2021
 
31.    New Zealand – Proposes to amend maximum residue levels for agricultural compounds
Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture
Date: 12 April 2021
 
32.    USA - Establishes tolerances for residues of MCPA in or on tea and intermediate wheatgrass forage, grain, hay, and straw
Notification Authority: Environment Protection Agency
Date: 13 April 2021
Processed Food
 
33.    India - Issued draft guidance document & standard operating procedures for fixation of maximum residue limits (MRLs) of pesticides in food commodities.
Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
Date: 9 April 2021
 
34.    Australia - Publishes food packaging standards: statement of ingredients
Notification Authority: Department of Food Safety 
Date: 12 April 2021
 
35.    Canada – Publishes notice of modification to the lists of permitted food additives to extend the use of certain food additives to human milk fortifier 
Notification Authority: Department of Health
Date: 14 April 2021
 
36.    EU – Publishes maximum residue levels for aclonifen, boscalid, cow milk, etofenprox, ferric pyrophosphate, L-cysteine, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr in or on certain products
Notification Authority: European Commission (REGULATION (EU) 2021/590)
Date: 12 April 2021
 
37.    Nepal – Publishes mandatory food standards
Notification Authority: Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC)
Date: 12 April 2021
 
38.    Brazil - Establishes the maximum permissible levels of contaminants in food
Notification Authority: Assessoria de Assuntos Internacionais - AINTE
Date: 9 April 2021
Product Coverage: food
 
39.    Brazil - Establishes maximum permissible levels of contaminants in food
Notification Authority: Assessoria de Assuntos Internacionais – AINTE
Date: 9 April 2021
Product Coverage: food
 
40.    Colombia - Establishes emergency sanitary measures for the importation of equines from Europe or from countries affected by the presentation of the disease known as equine rhinopneumonia, for a term of six months
Notification Authority: Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario – ICA
Date: 9 April 2021
 
41.    Tanzania – Publishes following standards
Notification Authority: Tanzania Bureau of Standards
Date: 8 April 2021
Chemical & Textiles
 
42.    Brazil - Publishes requirements for the importation of new medical devices and medicines
Notification Authority: ANVISA
Date: 9 April 2021
Product Coverage: new medical devices and medicines
 
43.    China – Publishes following standards
Notification Authority: State Administration for Market Regulation
Date: 8 April 2021
 
44.    Ecuador - Publishes regulations for cosmetic products, domestic hygiene products, absorbent personal hygiene products
Notification Authority: Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización INEN
Date: 8 April 2021
 
45.    Honduras – Publishes regulation for wood packaging used in International Trade
Notification Authority: Servicio Nacional de Sanidad e Inocuidad Agroalimentaria (SENASA)
Date: 8 April 2021
 
46.    Tanzania – Publishes following standards
Notification Authority: Tanzania Bureau of Standards
Date: 8 April 2021
Engineering Goods
 
47.    India - Extends date of enforcement of quality control order on Stamping/Laminations/Cores of Transformers upto 30 June 2021
Notification Authority: Ministry of Steel
Date: 8 April 2021
Product Coverage: Stamping/Laminations/Cores of Transformers
 
48.    Brazil – Publishes regulation for adult use bicycles
Notification Authority: National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology
Date: 12 April 2021
 
49.    Brazil – Publishes technical quality regulation and compliance assessment requirements for stoves and gas ovens for domestic use
Notification Authority: Ministry of Trade
Date: 12 April 2021
 
50.    EU – Publishes regulation on design, construction and performance requirements and testing standards for marine equipment
Notification Authority: European Commission
Date: 12 April 2021
Product Coverage: Marine Equipment
 
51.    Ecuador – Publishes technical regulation on safety and energy efficiency requirements for distribution transformers
Notification Authority: Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización INEN
Date: 8 April 2021
 
52.    Russia - Publishes technical regulation of the Customs Union on the safety of packaging
Notification Authority: Eurasian Economic Commission
Date: 12 April 2021
 
53.    USA -Publishes standard for the flammability of upholstered furniture
Notification Authority: Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Date: 12 April 2021
Product Coverage: Upholstered furniture; Protection against fire
Electronics
 
54.    Brazil - Publishes operational procedure for product homologation for telecommunications by declaration of conformity with ANATEL Brand
National Telecommunications Agency - ANATEL
Date: 12 April 2021
Product Telecommunication equipment
HS Code: 85
 
55.    Ecuador - Publishes technical regulation on toy safety
Notification Authority: Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización INEN
Date: 8 April 2021
 
56.    South Africa – Publishes order to ensure that all types of electronic communications equipment, electronic communications facility or subscriber equipment used or to be used in connection with the provision of electronic communications are authorised by the Authority.
Notification Authority: Department of Independent Communications Authority of South Africa
Date: 12 April 2021
Product Coverage: Telecommunications. Audio and Video Engineering
 
57.    USA- Issued amendment of energy conservation standards for consumer boilers
Notification Authority: Department of Energy
Date: 12 April 2021
 
58.    Singapore – Publishes Mandatory Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (MWELS). Minimum water efficiency requirements have been mandated for commonly used water fittings and appliances since 2009
Notification Authority: National Water Agency
Date: 8 April 2021
Product Coverage: 1) Front and top load washer extractors 2) Undercounter and hood dishwashers 3) High pressure washers National tariff headings
HS Code: 84514000, 84221900, 842430
 
59.    South Africa – Publishes compulsory specification for safety of general service lamps
Notification Authority: NRCS-National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications
Date: 8 April 2021
Product Coverage: Electrical General Service Lamps, includes LED lamps, incandescent lamps and compact fluorescent lamps
HS Code: 8539
 
60.    South Africa - Publishes compulsory specification for energy efficiency and functional performance requirements of general service lamps
Notification Authority: NRCS-National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications
Date: 8 April 2021
Product Coverage: Electric General Service Lamps; Electric filament or discharge lamps, incl. sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; arc-lamps; parts thereof
HS Code: 8539
 
61.    Turkey – Publishes communique on ecodesign requirements for electric motors and variable speed drives
Notification Authority: Ministry of Industry and Technology
Date: 8 April 2021
Product Coverage: Electric motors and variable speed drives
 
62.    Ukraine -Publishes amendment to the technical regulation on safety of toys"
Notification Authority: Ministry of Industry
Date: 8 April 2021
Regulatory Development in India
 
63.    India - Issued a circular for the credit facilities to minority communities
Notification Authority: Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Date: 1 April 2021
 
64.    India - Issued the draft Trade Credit Insurance Guidelines 2021. The objective is to promote sustainable and healthy development of trade credit insurance business
Notification Authority: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI)
Date: 12 April 2021
 
65.    India - Issued a circular for the amendment of the gold monetization scheme (GMS), 2015. 
Notification Authority: Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Date: 12 April 2021
 
66.    India - Declared the consumer price index of Agriculture workers in which variable dearness allowance is payable from the value of Rs. 5 per month to Rs. 135 per month or Rs. 4.5 per day (from the value of 30days) from April 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021.
Notification Authority: Labour Department of Chhattisgarh
Date: 9 April 2021

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