Export of sawn timber to Nepal

Posted on 06 April 2023 Category : Notifications

Export of sawn timber to Nepal

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(To be Published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section - 3, Sub-Section
(ii))
Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Department of Commerce
Udyog Bhawan
Notification No. 16 /2015-20
New Delhi, Dated : 28 July, 2015
Subject: Amendment in export policy of sawn timber-addition of ports for export to Nepal.
S.O.(E) In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development &
Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) read with Para 1.02 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20, the
Central Government, with immediate effect, hereby makes the following amendments in Chapter 44 of
Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items.

2. The entry at Point No. (ii) in the Nature of Restriction against Sl. No. 181 of Chapter 44
of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items is substituted as under:
“The importer and exporter shall be the same firm and the import and export shall have to
be effected from the same port. The scheme will be operational only from the ports of
Chennai, Kandla, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mundra, Nhava Sheva (JNPT), Tuticorin,
Vishakhapatnam and the Land Customs Station (LCS) of Raxaul. However, for this
purpose, Mangalore & Tuticorin shall be treated as the same port thereby allowing
importers to import wood logs from Mangalore and export the Sawn timber from Tuticorin
and vice-versa. Similar facility shall also be available for Kandla, Mumbai, Mundra and
Nhava Sheva (JNPT) ports thereby allowing importers to import from any of the above
ports and export either from the same port or from any of the remaining three ports. For
the purpose of export to Nepal, the Land Customs Station (LCS) of Raxaul and Kolkata
port shall be treated as the same port thereby allowing importers to import wood logs from
Kolkata port and export the Sawn timber to Nepal from the LCS of Raxaul”.

3. Effect of this notification:
Export of sawn timber to Nepal made exclusively out of imported wood logs through the
port of Kolkata has been permitted from the Land Customs Station (LCS) of Raxaul.
(Pravir Kumar)
Director General of Foreign Trade
E-mail: dgft[at]nic[dot]in
(Issued from F.No.01/91/180/331/AM14/Export Cell)

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