DGFT NOTIFICATION NO. 55 (RE-2008)/2004-2009 dated05/11/2008

Last updated: 07 November 2008

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

NOTIFICATION NO. 55 (RE-2008)/2004-2009

NEW DELHI, THE th NOVEMBER, 2008

S.O.(E) In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 read with Section 3(2) of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) and also read with Para 1.3 and Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-2009, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments to Notification No.93(RE-2007)/2004-2009 dated 1^st April, 2008 read with Notification No. 37 (RE-2008)/2004-09 dated 3^rd September, 2008 and Notification No. 38 (RE-2008)/2004-2009 dated 5th September, 2008 and Notification No. 39 dated 16^th September, 2008:-

Sl. No.

Tariff Item HS Code

Unit

Item Description

Export Policy

Nature of Restriction

45A

1006 10

1006 10 90

1006 20 00

1006 30

1006 30 10

1006 30 90

1006 40 00

1006 10 10

Kg.

Non Basmati Rice

Rice of seed quality

Prohibited

Free vide Notification No.32 dated 19^th August, 2008

Not permitted to be exported.

Subject to conditions imposed vide Notification No.32 dated 19^th August, 2008.

45AA

10063020

Kg.

Basmati Rice including Pusa Basmati 1121 (Dehusked (Brown), semi-milled, milled both in either par-boiled or raw condition)

Free

1. Grain of rice to be exported shall be more than 7 mm of length and ratio of length to breadth of the grain shall be more than 3.6;

2. Exports to Russian Federation permitted subject to pre-shipment quality certification issued by Sri Ram Institute for Industrial Research or any other agency as may be notified from time to time.

3. Export permitted only if the minimum FOB price is US$ 1200 per ton or Rs.54,000/- per ton.

4. Export of Basmati Rice will be restricted through the following six ports only :

(i) Kandla

(ii) Kakinada

(iii) Kolkata

(iv) JNPT, Mumbai (as approved vide Notification No.82 dated 5.3.08.

(v) Mundra, and

(vi) Pipavav

(as approved vide Notification No.84 dated 17.3.08).

2. All other provisions of the Notification No.93 (RE-2007)/2004-09 dated 1^st April, 2008 shall remain unchanged, and shall continue to apply.

3. This issues in public interest.

(R.S GUJRAL)