Drawback rate correction adjusts customs drawback entries to amend unit bases and specified rates for certain tariff items.
Correction of prescribed customs drawback rates by corrigendum to Notification No.12/2004 Customs (N.T.), amending column 3 entries for specified serial/sub serial items to revise the unit of assessment and the textual rate description for items at Serial/Sub serial Nos.85.92, 87.38 and 87.110, limited to precise textual corrections in the Table.

Appointment of Adjudicating Commissioner under Customs Act assigns adjudication of specified show cause notices to an alternative officer.
Using powers under section 4(1) of the Customs Act, 1962, the Central Board of Excise and Customs appoints the Commissioner of Customs (Imports), Air Cargo Complex, Sahar Airport, Mumbai to act as Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore solely for adjudicating specified show cause notices issued in November 2003 concerning three named entities, with the reassignment effected by formal notification and file reference.

Amendment to Customs notification: reassigns Commissioner designation and substitutes specified show cause notices and entries in statutory record
Amendment to a Customs notification substitutes the earlier office designation with Commissioner of Customs (Import and General), New Customs House, New Delhi, replaces a single cited show-cause notice date with three specified show-cause notice dates, and modifies a referenced entry/file identifier. The amendment is issued under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Customs Act, 1962, as an amendment to Notification No. 8/98-Cus. (N.T.) published in the Gazette of India.

Adjudicating authority appointment: Commissioner of Customs designated to adjudicate show cause notice related to M/s Manjri Stud Farm.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, under section 4(1) of the Customs Act, 1962, appoints the Commissioner of Customs (Imports), Air Cargo Complex, Mumbai to act as the adjudicating Commissioner of Customs for specified matters relating to a Show Cause Notice issued to M/s. Manjri Stud Farm Pvt. Limited by the Additional Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai Zonal Unit, effected by Notification No. 41/2004 - Custom (N.T).

Appointment of adjudicating authority: Commissioner designated to adjudicate specified customs show-cause proceedings under statutory power.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, under section 4(1) of the Customs Act, appoints the Commissioner of Customs, Airport and Air Cargo Complex, Chennai to act as Commissioner of Customs (Imports), Air Cargo Complex, Sahar, Mumbai for adjudication of the Show Cause Notice issued to M/s. Kehlan Stud (file No.DRI/BZU/E/14/2003 dated 29 January 2004), effecting a temporary reassignment of adjudicatory responsibility for that specified import-related proceeding.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointment allows a Commissioner to adjudicate DRI-issued show cause notices under customs authority.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs has appointed the Commissioner of Customs (Exports), IGI Airport, New Delhi to act as Commissioner of Customs for specified Mumbai, Mangalore and Tughlakabad jurisdictions to adjudicate Show Cause Notices issued to M/s K.S. Traders and others by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), under Notification No. 39/2004 - Custom (N.T), recorded under file F.NO.437/4/2004-CUS.IV.

Appointment of Adjudicating Authority: Commissioner designated to adjudicate specific DRI show cause notices under Customs Act.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs appoints the Commissioner of Customs, Inland Container Depot, Tughlakabad, New Delhi, to act as Commissioner of Customs (Port), Kolkata to adjudicate show cause notices issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in relation to M/s Intrade Impex Pvt. Ltd. and M/s Akay Cones Pvt. Ltd., under Section 4(1) of the Customs Act, 1962.

Customs exchange rate determination sets official currency conversion rates for exported goods under statutory authority.
The Board, exercising powers under the Customs Act, supersedes the earlier notification and fixes official exchange rates for conversion between specified foreign currencies and Indian rupees for purposes relating to exported goods, effective from 1st April, 2004, as set out in two appended schedules identifying rates per unit and per 100 units where applicable.

Exchange rate determination for import valuation fixes prescribed currency conversion rates for customs purposes.
The Board, under the authority of section 14(3)(a)(i) of the Customs Act, 1962, supersedes the prior notification and determines, effective 1 April 2004, the rupee conversion rates for specified foreign currencies for imported goods as set out in two appended schedules: Schedule I (rate per one unit for listed currencies) and Schedule II (rate per 100 units for Japanese Yen).

Customs notification amendment revises the effective date for S. No. 17 exemptions, moving it to 1 December 2005.
Under the authority of sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962, the Central Government substitutes "the 1st day of April, 2004" with "the 1st day of December, 2005" in column (3) against S. No. 17 of the Table in Notification No. 39/96-Customs by Notification No. 49/2004-Customs dated 23 March 2004.

Hazardous waste import/export prohibition bars trade in listed hazardous wastes, subject only to exemptions under environmental law.
Prohibition under the Customs Act bars import and export of hazardous wastes specified in the Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, subject only to exceptions provided under the Environment Protection Act and its rules; the measure is administratively superseded by a later customs notification.

Customs exemption for defence programme imports when designated agencies provide dual certification and programme-only use is confirmed.
Adds a conditional customs exemption permitting duty-free import of specific machinery, equipment, components, spares, tools, software, raw materials and consumables for the DHANUSH Programme when imported by designated work centres, government agencies or public sector undertakings and supported at import by a goods list certified by the Programme Management Board Member Secretary as required, for programme use only and not manufactured in India, and certified by an Under Secretary-level officer in the Ministry of Defence as authorized by the Ministry.

Customs notification amendments substitute listed case entries and noticees, updating the table under statutory authority of the Customs Act.
Amendments to Notification No. 54/2001-CUSTOMS(N.T.) substitute the Table entries for S.No. 11, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 35, 37, 38, 39 and 57 by providing revised departmental file references and naming the noticees; the Board issues Notification No. 34/2004 under section 4(1) of the Customs Act, 1962 to effect these substitutions and records the principal notification's publication details.

Appointment of Adjudicating Authority for customs adjudication to hear show cause notices against a trader under Customs Act.
The Board, under section 4(1) of the Customs Act, 1962, appoints the Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore to act as Commissioner of Customs (Sea Port) and Commissioner of Customs (Air Port) for the purpose of adjudicating matters relating to the show cause notices issued to M/s Sansri Trading Corporation, as referenced in the notification, thereby allocating adjudicatory responsibility for those DRI-issued notices.

Tariff value amendment sets updated import valuation benchmarks for specified commodities including brass scrap.
Amendment to tariff values substitutes the Table in the principal Customs notification under Section 14(2) of the Customs Act, 1962, prescribing US dollar per metric tonne tariff values for listed goods, including various palm and soyabean oil categories and Brass Scrap (all grades), thereby updating the benchmarks used for customs import valuation and assessment.

Designation of Malpe port for export of iron and manganese ore, fish products and coffee husk under customs notification.
An amendment to the principal customs notification substitutes the Malpe Table entry to add item (b) authorizing loading of following goods for export: (i) Iron and manganese ore, fish and fish products; and (ii) Coffee Husk, thereby updating export permissions for Malpe under the existing notification.

Tariff value revision for crude soybean oil; import valuation table updated under Customs Act authority by board notification.
The Board, exercising powers under the Customs Act, substituted the existing tariff-value table in the principal customs notification, updating import valuation entries for specified goods; most palm oil and palmolein values remain unchanged while a revised tariff value is specified for crude soybean oil and brass scrap is listed.

Customs exemption notification amendment postpones the effective commencement date, extending the period before the exemption takes effect.
The Central Government, invoking its powers under the Customs Act, amends Notification No. 115/2003-CUSTOMS by substituting the previously specified commencement date with a later date, thereby postponing the effective commencement of the notification as published in the Gazette of India and maintaining administrative continuity with the principal notification and its earlier amendment.

Customs notification amendment postpones effective date to a later date under Customs Tariff Act powers.
Amendment to Notification No. 114/2003-CUSTOMS substitutes the effective date in paragraph 2 by exercise of powers under section 3A(1) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, deferring the operation of the provision and referencing the principal notification and its earlier amendment in the Gazette.

Customs notification amendment extends the operative commencement date, deferring the prior commencement to a later date.
The Central Government, under powers conferred by the Customs Act, 1962 and the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, amends Notification No. 113/2003-CUSTOMS by substituting in paragraph 2 the previously stated commencement date with a later commencement date, thereby deferring the operative effect of that notification as published in the Gazette.