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16th September, 2021

16^th September, 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: 9^th – 15^th September, 2021 are given under. Please click on a notification for the details.

Trade Policy & Customs

1. India - Fixes tariff value of edible oils, brass scrap, areca nut, gold and silver

Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification No.73/2021 – Customs (NT))

Date: 15 Sep 2021

2. India - Includes Kushinagar Airport for loading & unloading of baggage

Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification No.72/2021 – Customs)

Date: 13 Sep 2021

3. India - Procedure for refund of application fees deposited by applicants for Restricted Import Authorisation of Pulses for the period 2021-22

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Trade Notice No. 17/2021-22)

Date: 14 Sep 2021

4. India - Clarification on last date of import in continuation of Notification No. 20/2015-20 dated 24.08.2021

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Notification No. 25/2015-20)

Date: 13 Sep 2021

5. India - Relief in Average Export Obligation in terms of Para 5.19 of Hand Book of Procedures of Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Circular No. 37/2015-20)

Date: 10 Sep 2021

6. India - Withdraws the reduction in basic customs duty on crude palm oil earlier notified on 29.06.21

Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification No.43/2021-Cus)

Date: 10 Sep 2021

7. India - Reduces and rationalise the import duties on Palm, Sunflower and Soya-bean oils

Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Notification No.42/2021-Cus)

Date: 10 Sep 2021

8. India - Eases availability of containers for exporters

Notification Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Instruction No.20/2021-Customs)

Date: 10 Sep 2021

9. India - Amends the import policy of mercury

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (Notification No. 24/2015-2020)

Date: 9 Sep 2021

Trade Remedies

10. India – Publishes final findings on anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of sodium hydrosulphite originating in or exported from China and South Korea

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 15 Sep 2021

11. India – Publishes final findings on anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of hot-rolled flat products of alloy or non-alloy steel from China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Brazil and Indonesia

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 15 Sep 2021

12. India - Publishes final findings anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of cold rolled/cold reduced flat steel products of iron or non-alloy steel or other alloy steel of all width and thickness - not clad, plated or coated originating in or exported from China, Japan, South Korea and Ukraine

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 15 Sep 2021

13. India - Terminates anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of plain medium density fibreboard having thickness 6mm and above from Vietnam

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 14 Sep 2021

14. India - Initiates anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of hydrogen peroxide originating in or exported from Bangladesh and Thailand

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 14 Sep 2021

15. India– Initiates anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of stainless-steel seamless tubes & pipes originating in or exported from China

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 13 Sep 2021

16. India – Initiates mid-term review investigation concerning imports of aluminium alloy road wheels originating in or exported from China

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 13 Sep 2021

17. India – Initiation of new shipper review concerning anti-dumping duty imposed on the imports of hydrogen peroxide originating in or exported from Bangladesh

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 13 Sep 2021

18. India – Initiates sunset review of anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of amoxycillin / amoxycillin trihydrate originating in or exported from China

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 13 Sep 2021

19. India - Initiates anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of "Opal Glassware" originating in or exported from China and UAE

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 10 Sep 2021

20. India -Notifies oral hearing in anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of Colour coated / pre-painted flat products of alloy or non-alloy steel originating in or exported from China and EU

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 9 Sep 2021

21. India -Publishes final findings on anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of Certain Flat Rolled Products of Aluminium originating in or exported from China

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 8 Sep 2021

22. India-Notifies oral hearing in anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of "Soda Ash" from UAE and Russia

Notification Authority: Directorate General of Trade Remedies

Date: 8 Sep 2021

Plants & Plant Products

23. India - Frames draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2021 specifying the limit of naturally occurring formaldehyde in freshwater and marine fish

Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Date: 14 Sep 2021

24. Australia - Updates Inspection options for psyllium husk goods arriving as full container load sea freight

Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Date: 15 Sep 2021

25. Australia - Adds peperomia turboensis to the permitted species list

Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Date: 15 Sep 2021

26. Australia - Proposes to amend the maximum residue limits for following agricultural and veterinary chemicals: Etoxazole, Fluopyram, Flupyradifurone, Imidacloprid, Mefentrifluconazole, Proquinazid and Trifloxystrobin in specified plant commodities; Flupyradifurone in specified animal commodities

Notification Authority: Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)

Products covered: Foods in general

Date: 13 Sep 2021

27. Australia - Amends the following products:

a) Wooden Products

b) Bamboo Products

Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Date: 11 Sep 2021

28. Chile - Establishes the quality requirements for the importation of seeds

Notification Authority: Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG)

Products covered: Seeds

Date: 13 Sep 2021

29. Kenya - Publishes requirements and test methods for alcoholic mixed beverages

Notification Authority: Kenya Bureau of Standards

Products covered: Alcoholic beverages

Date: 13 Sep 2021

30. New Zealand - Publishes standard specifying the import conditions for nursery stock

Notification Authority: Ministry for Primary Industries

Products covered: Plants

Date: 13 Sep 2021

31. Taiwan - Publishes draft regulation for the use restrictions and labelling requirement of aloe as a food ingredient

Notification Authority: Food and Drug Administration

Products covered: Food ingredient to be used in food; Food products in general

Date: 13 Sep 2021

32. Turkey - Amends import requirements for tomato, pepper and pumpkin seeds

Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Product Covered: Tomato, pepper and pumpkin seeds

Date: 14 Sep 2021

33. United Kingdom - Amends the Phytosanitary Conditions Regulation pertaining to plants

Notification Authority: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Products covered: Plants & Plant products

Date: 13 Sep 2021

34. Uganda - Proposes draft specifying the requirements for following products:

a) Citrus fruits

b) Fresh mushrooms

c) Fresh papaya

d) Fresh chilli peppers

Notification Authority: Uganda National Bureau of Standards

Date: 8 Sep 2021

35. USA - Establishes a temporary exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of spinach defensin proteins

Notification Authority: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Date: 14 Sep 2021

36. USA - Establishes tolerances for residues of Acequinocyl

Notification Authority: Environmental Protection Agency

Products covered: Tropical and subtropical, medium to large fruit smooth, inedible peel subgroup 24B

Date: 13 Sep 2021

Animals & Animal Products

37. Brazil - Publishes draft sanitary requirements for the import of live bivalve molluscs or their products

Notification Authority: Secretariat of Animal and Plant Health and Inspection (SDA); Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA)

Products covered: Live bivalve molluscs or their products

Date: 13 Sep 2021

38. Canada – Proposes to amend the Feeds Regulations, 1983

Notification Authority: Canada's Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

Date: 13 Sep 2021

39. New Zealand - Proposes measures for importing cats and dogs

Notification Authority: Ministry for Primary Industries

Products covered: Cats and dogs

Date: 13 Sep 2021

40. Peru - Prohibits the entry of goods of pig origin

Notification Authority: National Agrarian Health Service

Products covered: Goods of pig origin

Date: 13 Sep 2021

41. Philippines - Intensifies scrutiny against meat and meat products without import permits

Notification Authority: Bureau of Customs

Date: 12 Sep 2021

42. Slovenia - Publishes specifications for meat and meat products from meat of small cattle

Notification Authority: Ministry of Agriculture

Products covered: Meat, meat products and other animal produce

Date: 13 Sep 2021

43. South Korea - Proposes to amend 'meal kits containing meat' as a new type of processed edible meat products under the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act, which will be subject to the Import Sanitation Assessment of MFDS

Notification Authority: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

Products covered: Livestock products

Date: 13 Sep 2021

44. USA - Notifies mandatory Inspection of egg substitutes and freeze-dried egg products

Notification Authority: Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Products covered: eggs

Date: 13 Sep 2021

45. USA - Proposes labelling requirements for meat or poultry products

Notification Authority: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Products covered: Meat and poultry products

Date: 13 Sep 2021

Processed Foods

46. India - Includes “Radiation Processing of Food” as new Kind of Business in FoSCoS Portal for Licensing of Food Businesses

Notification Authority: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Date: 10 Sep 2021

47. Chile - Proposes to fortify milk and dairy products, alcoholic beverages, fruit and vegetable juices and packaged water with Vitamin D

Notification Authority: Ministry of Health

Products covered: Food Fortification with Vitamin D

Date: 8 Sep 2021

48. EU - Publishes draft Commission Regulation concerning refusal of authorisation on certain health claims:

a) Made on foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk

b) Made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health

c) Made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health

Notification Authority: European Commission

Products covered: Food products in general

Date: 13 Sep 2021

49. Mexico - Proposes draft for modifying specifications regarding yogurt

Notification Authority: Secretary of Economy

Date: 8 Sep 2021

50. Peru - Publishes draft modifying regulations on sanitary surveillance and control of food and beverages

Notification Authority: General Directorate of Environmental Health and Food Safety of the Ministry of Health

Date: 13 Sep 2021

51. Singapore – Notifies Food (Amendment) Regulations 2021 will come into operations on 01-10-2021

Notification Authority: Singapore Food Agency

Date: 13 Sep 2021

52. South Korea - Publishes enforcement rules of the Health Functional Food Act

Notification Authority: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

Date: 10 Sep 2021

53. South Korea - Publishes enforcement rules of the special act on imported food safety management

Notification Authority: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

Date: 9 Sep 2021

54. Taiwan - Proposes regulation specifies the use restrictions and labelling requirement of aloe for food purposes

Notification Authority: Ministry of Health and Welfare

Products covered: Food ingredient to be used in food

Date: 8 Sep 2021

Pharmaceutical Products

55. Brazil - Establishes following requirements:

a) Temporary technical requirements for new medical devices and medicines

b) Specific criteria for grouping materials for health use into families for market authorization

c) Breast implants and the product conformity certification requirement

d) Surgical gloves and gloves for non-surgical procedures

e) Single-use sterile hypodermic syringes

f) Hypodermic and gingival syringes

g) Single-use transfusion, gravitational infusion, and infusion for using with an infusion pump

Notification Authority: Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)

Date: 14 Sep 2021

56. Brazil - Publishes resolution which disposes about the following:

a) Procedures for compulsory certification of equipment under the Sanitary Surveillance regime

b) Plastic bags for the collection, storage and transfer of human blood and its components

c) Market authorization, manufacturing, etc of Intra-Uterine Device containing copper

d) Mandatory execution by the holders of medical devices market authorization

e) Performance of clinical trials with medical devices

f) Safety requirements applicable to medical devices

g) Requirements for manufacturing, trading, etc of personalized medical devices

Notification Authority: Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)

Date: 14 Sep 2021

57. Brazil - Establishes following requirements:

a) Temporary requirements for the fabrication, importation and commercialization of personal protective equipment

b) Temporary requirements for the import of new medical devices and medicines identified

c) List of substances for preservative use permitted for personal hygiene products, cosmetics and perfumes

d) List of substances for preservative use not permitted for personal hygiene products, cosmetics and perfumes

e) List of substances that personal hygiene products, cosmetics, and perfumes must not contain except under the conditions, and with the established restrictions

f) Pilot Implementation of the Post-Market Authorization Change Management Protocol for drugs with synthetic and semi-synthetic active ingredients

g) Minimum requirements for male natural rubber latex condoms

Notification Authority: Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)

Date: 13 Sep 2021

58. Peru - Publishes draft regulation for the conditional sanitary registration of medicines and biological products

Notification Authority: Ministry of Health

Products covered: Pharmaceutical products

Date: 13 Sep 2021

59. South Korea - Publishes enforcement rules of the Sanitary Products Management Act

Notification Authority: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

Date: 10 Sep 2021

60. South Korea - Publishes rules regarding the safety of medicines

Notification Authority: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

Date: 10 Sep 2021

Electronics & Engineering

61. Argentina - Proposes draft resolution for the mandatory certification of compliance with the essential safety requirements for low voltage electrical products

Products covered: low voltage electrical products

Date: 13 Sep 2021

62. Brazil - Proposes to update the requirements for certification of mobile phone charge

Notification Authority: Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)

Products covered: Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof

Date: 13 Sep 2021

63. Chile - Updates technical specifications for the design of the efficiency label for household lamps

Notification Authority: Ministry of energy

Products covered: Household Lamps

Date: 8 Sep 2021

64. Denmark - Publishes executive order on retrofitted particulate filter system

Notification Authority: The Danish Road Traffic Authority

Products covered: Retrofitted particulate filter system

Date: 14 Sep 2021

65. Philippines - Publishes draft concerning the mandatory product certification of energy consuming products

Notification Authority: Bureau of Philippine Standards

Products covered: Refrigerators, Room Air Conditioners, Television Sets, CFL, etc

Date: 13 Sep 2021

66. Philippines - Publishes draft concerning the mandatory product certification of automotive products

Notification Authority: Bureau of Philippine Standards

Products covered: Motor vehicle related product

Date: 13 Sep 2021

67. South Korea - Publishes draft amending technical standards for broadcasting facilities for internet multimedia broadcasting business

Notification Authority: National Radio Research Agency (RRA)

Products covered: Broadcasting Facilities for Internet Multimedia Broadcasting Business (IPTV)

Date: 13 Sep 2021

68. Switzerland - Publishes draft revision of the Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications on telecommunications installations (OOIT)

Notification Authority: Federal Office of Communications

Products covered: Telecommunication equipment, radio equipment and telecommunication terminal equipment

Date: 14 Sep 2021

69. Taiwan - Notifies amendments to the legal requirements for fans and other electrical appliances will come into effect on 1 January 2023

Notification Authority: Ministry of Economic Affairs

Date: 8 Sep 2021

70. Uganda - Publishes draft standard covering the following aspects:

a) Determination of silicon in engine coolant

b) Requirements for treated Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets

c) Determination of hardness in water by titration

d) Determination of the equilibrium boiling point of engine coolants

Notification Authority: Uganda National Bureau of Standards

Date: 13 Sep 2021

71. Ukraine - Proposes draft requirements for recreational craft and personal watercraft

Notification Authority: Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine

Products covered: Recreational craft and personal watercraft

Date: 14 Sep 2021

72. Ukraine - Notifies the adoption of the amendments to the Technical Regulation for Pressure Equipment

Notification Authority: Cabinet of Ukraine

Date: 13 Sep 2021

73. USA - Proposes procedures for the exemption of add-on and modified part(s) for on-road vehicles/engines

Notification Authority: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Products covered: Vehicle

Date: 14 Sep 2021

74. USA - Publishes requirements for human blood and blood components intended for transfusion or for further manufacturing use

Notification Authority: Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Products covered: Unmanned aircraft systems use of 5GHz bandUpdates the record on unmanned aircraft systems use of the 5 GHz band

Date: 13 Sep 2021

Others

75. Australia - Updates minimum documentary and import declaration requirements

Notification Authority: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Date: 14 Sep 2021

76. Brazil - Publishes resolution which disposes about the following:

a) Exposure to the sale and the trade of tobacco-derived smoking products

b) Improvement of the control and inspection of anorectic psychotropic substances and provides other measures

c) Market authorization of tobacco-derived smoking products

d) Framing of Limulus Amebocyte Lysate Reagent in the technical regulation on medical devices

e) Requirements for the grouping of medical devices for market authorization and adopts traceability labels for implantable products

f) Market authorization of the products used in the procedure of the permanent artificial pigmentation of the skin

g) Requirements for manufacturing, trading, importing and exposure to the use of personalized medical devices

Notification Authority: Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)

Date: 13 Sep 2021

77. Taiwan - Amends the list of micro-organisms limits in cosmetic products

Notification Authority: Ministry of Health and Welfare

Date: 13 Sep 2021

78. Uganda - Proposes draft standards covering following product areas:

a) Determination of iron in the range from 1 to 100 μg

b) Procedure for the visual measurement of the colour of essentially light coloured liquids

c) Chemical and physical analysis of alcohol, ether, etc

d) Requirements for unpadded swabs, padded swabs and surgical pads

e) Requirements for cosmetic nail glue

f) Determination of anti - freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids

g) Determination of sulfate in water in the range from 5 to 40 mg/L of sulfate ion (SO4)

h) Determination of engine coolants, liquid antirust

i) Determination of freezing point of an aqueous engine coolant solution in the laboratory

j) Determination of pH by electrometric measurement

k) Determination of ash content after ignition of commercial engine coolants and antirust

l) Amends the requirement of the bale mass

Notification Authority: Uganda National Bureau of Standards

Date: 14 Sep 2021

79. USA - Publishes requirements for human blood and blood components intended for transfusion or for further manufacturing use

Notification Authority: Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Date: 13 Sep 2021

80. Vietnam - Publishes resolution on tax policies for imported goods to finance Covid-19 prevention and control

Notification Authority: Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Date: 11 Sep 2021

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