Appointment of commissioners establishes nationwide adjudication jurisdiction for designated Principal Commissioners of Customs to hear assigned customs cases.
The Board appoints the Commissioner of Customs (Adjudication) at Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata as Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, each having jurisdiction over the whole of India, for the purposes of adjudicating cases assigned to them by the Board under the statutory powers conferred by the Customs Act.

Notification amendment: correction of tariff serial numbering to update S.No. references and preserve schedule accuracy.
The corrigendum amends notification No. 67/2003-Customs by replacing "after S.No. 426" with "after S.No. 426A" and substituting "426A." with "426B.", effecting a textual correction to tariff serial numbering in the published exemption notification.

Defence imports exemption for specialised machinery and data packs conditioned on importer certification and domestic non availability.
The amendment adds a time limited exemption permitting import of technology transfer documents, machinery, instruments, tools, accessories and spares (including warranty replacements) for establishing manufacturing facilities for the Bi Modular Charge System at Ordnance Factory Project Nalanda, provided imports are made by the Ordnance Factory Board, Kolkata, a certified list of goods is produced at import by the Project General Manager or an officer not below Joint Director in the Ordnance Factory Board, and the goods are not manufactured in India and are used only for the Project.

Customs duty reduction on set-top boxes suspends import duty for specified tariff entries until a prescribed cut-off via notification.
The amendment inserts two nil-rate table entries for set-top box imports by reference to goods specified in earlier notifications, extending duty relief for those described goods until 31 July 2003 and adding a proviso that the exemption shall not apply to the specified goods on or after 1 August 2003.

Customs duty reduction on integrated receiver decoders lowers basic import duty and amends the tariff schedule.
Amendment to Notification No. 21/2002 Customs under section 25(1) inserts a proviso extending applicability to goods at new serial No. 316A from a stated future date, and adds Table entries including 267A for specified high speed rotary printing machines and 316A for Integrated Receiver Decoder (Set top Box) with prescribed basic customs duty and corresponding column treatments.

Anti-dumping duty on Potassium Permanganate revised with specified per-country rates and Indian-currency exchange rules.
The Central Government has imposed revised anti-dumping duties on Potassium Permanganate (tariff item 2841 61 00) from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan at country specific rates; duties are payable in Indian currency, with the rate of exchange for conversion set by the Government's Customs Act notification and the relevant date for exchange determination being the date of presentation of the bill of entry under section 46. The revision follows a tribunal direction and a corrigendum to the designated authority's findings and supersedes the earlier Notification No. 113/2001-Cus subject to prior actions.

Customs ports amendment limits exports through specified inland container depots to designated seaports for routing control.
The Government amends listed customs exemption notifications to substitute and expand port and inland container depot listings (adding Jamnagar and multiple ICDs and land customs stations) and inserts a proviso that goods delivered for export via any specified inland container depot shall be exported only through the seaports at Mumbai, Nhava Sheva, Kandla, Chennai or Kolkata.

Anti-dumping duty continuation on polystyrene maintained during statutory review to preserve tariff protection.
The Central Government amended the existing customs notification to maintain the anti-dumping duty on imported polystyrene in force during a pending statutory review, acting under powers granted by the Customs Tariff Act and the anti-dumping rules; the amendment inserts a paragraph preserving the notification's operation until its stated expiry unless earlier revoked, thereby ensuring continuity of the duty while the review is completed.

Exchange rate determination for export goods sets official conversion rates and supersedes the prior notification, effective June 2003.
The Board, exercising powers under section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962, determines official rupee equivalents for specified foreign currencies for purposes of export goods, effective 1 June 2003, superseding the prior notification of 25 April 2003. Rates are set in two schedules: Schedule I gives rupee equivalents per one unit of currency; Schedule II gives rupee equivalents per one hundred units where applicable.

Exchange rate determination for import valuation establishes specified foreign currency conversion rates and schedules under Customs Act authority.
The Board, under section 14(3)(a)(i) of the Customs Act, 1962, fixes specified conversion rates for listed foreign currencies into Indian rupees for imported goods, superseding the prior notification. Rates are presented in two schedules: Schedule I gives the rate per one unit of each listed currency and Schedule II gives the rate per one hundred units where applicable; these rates are to be applied for import valuation and customs purposes from the stated effective date.

Customs tariff exemptions revised: specified goods reclassified with amended exemption percentages under amended notification regime
The notification amends Part B of Notification No. 105/99 by substituting specified Table entries and altering column (4) exemption percentages for listed tariff/HS headings, designating certain goods with full exemption and others with specified partial exemption rates, thereby revising the customs duty concession structure for the enumerated imported goods.

Amendment to provisional anti dumping notification deletes a court-reference and an operative paragraph affecting float glass imports.
The amendment deletes the portion of the principal provisional anti dumping notification that referenced the Madras High Court order and omits paragraph 3 of that notification, thereby modifying the text of the earlier measure imposing provisional anti dumping duty on specified float glass imports from China and Indonesia under the Customs Tariff framework.

Rescission of customs notifications removes specified exemption orders and preserves actions completed before rescission administratively.
Rescission of specified customs exemption notifications is effected under section 25(1) of the Customs Act as necessary in the public interest, terminating the legal force of the earlier exemption orders and expressly preserving actions or omissions completed before the rescission.

Additional duty exemption for green tea: imported green tea relieved from additional customs duty under Finance Act provision.
Green tea imported into India is exempted from the whole of the additional duty of customs levied under the Finance Act, 2003, by Notification No. 79/2003 dated 14 May 2003. The Central Government, exercising the power under sub section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962, declared the exemption necessary in the public interest and directed that the additional duty under the Finance Act will not apply to imported green tea.

Additional duty exemption for tea imports shields imported tea and tea waste from excise-equivalent customs levy.
Exemption relieves tea and tea waste imports from the portion of additional customs duty equivalent to the excise duty imposed by the Finance Act, 2003, under the executive authority to grant customs relief, thereby excluding from levy at import the amount equal to the excise-equivalent additional duty.

National Calamity Contingent Duty exemption for specified imported goods removes equivalent additional customs duty.
The Government exempts specified imported goods in the Seventh Schedule to the Finance Act, 2001 (as amended) from that portion of the additional duty under the Customs Tariff Act which is equivalent to the National Calamity Contingent Duty, by exercise of delegated power in the public interest; the notification was later suppressed by a subsequent notification.

Tariff valuation update for specified palm, brass scrap and soyabean oil imports revises customs tariff values under statutory authority.
Fixation of tariff values under Section 14(2) of the Customs Act, 1962 by substituting the Table in Notification No. 36/2001-Cus. (NT) with updated tariff values in US dollars per metric tonne for specified goods including crude palm oil, RBD palm oil, RBD palmolein, crude palmolein, brass scrap (all grades) and crude soyabean oil, thereby prescribing revised customs valuation benchmarks and referencing prior notifications for continuity.

Import qualification added: clarifies duty-free finished leather and duty-paid imported steel eligibility in customs notification.
Corrigendum to Notification No.26/2003-Customs(N.T.) dated 1 April 2003 inserts qualifying phrases in the tariff schedule: Chapter 42 entries described as "duty free finished leather" are to be read as imported under Notification No.21/2002-Cus dated 1st March, 2002, and Chapter 73 entries described as "manufactured" are qualified as out of duty paid imported steel, across the specific serial/sub-serial items listed in the corrigendum.

Import qualification for duty-free finished leather limited to items under specified notification; steel entries require duty-paid imported steel.
The corrigendum adds an import-based qualification to specified duty-free finished leather entries by limiting the duty-free description to finished leather imported under Notification No.21/2002-Cus, and separately qualifies certain manufacturing entries by requiring that the goods be produced out of duty-paid imported steel, inserting these qualifying phrases into multiple tariff sub-serial entries.

Duty concessions for Afghan-origin imports: specified agricultural, seed, spice and gemstone goods receive reduced customs duty subject to origin proof.
Notification exempts a specified portion of the applied customs duty on listed agricultural, seed, spice and gemstone goods imported from the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, provided the importer proves origin to the satisfaction of the Assistant or Deputy Commissioner of Customs under the 2003 Determination of Origin Rules; "applied rate of duty" is defined as the First Schedule standard rate read with any other exemption notifications in force.