Common Adjudicating Authority appointed to centralise adjudication of specified customs show cause notices under the Customs Act.
Appoints the Additional Director General (Adjudication), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Delhi as the Common Adjudicating Authority empowered under sub section (1) of section 4 and sub section (1) of section 5 of the Customs Act, 1962 to exercise the powers and discharge duties otherwise vested in the officers named in the Table, for adjudication of the specific show cause notices listed therein.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointment to centralize adjudication of a show cause notice under the Customs Act.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, invoking powers under the Customs Act, appointed the Principal Commissioner/Commissioner of Customs (Import), Jawaharlal Nehru Customs House, Nhava Sheva III, Raigad, Maharashtra, as a Common Adjudicating Authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of specified Commissioner of Customs posts for adjudicating matters arising from a show cause notice issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence concerning M/s. Pooja Hardware Pvt. Ltd and others.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointed to adjudicate specified show-cause notice under the Customs Act in import proceedings.
Common Adjudicating Authority appointed under powers of the Customs Act to centralize adjudication of a specified show-cause notice in import proceedings by vesting the adjudicatory powers of multiple named customs offices in the Principal Commissioner/Commissioner of Customs, Nhava Sheva-V, for the limited purpose of adjudicating matters arising from the referenced show-cause notice.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointed to centralize adjudication of specified show cause proceedings under the Customs Act.
Appoints the Additional Director General (Adjudication), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, New Delhi as a Common Adjudicating Authority under sections 4(1) and 5(1) of the Customs Act to exercise the powers of specified customs officers for adjudicating matters arising from Show Cause Notice number 23/66/2013-DZU/2114 issued by the Additional Director General, DRI, Delhi Zonal Unit relating to M/s. Balaji Enterprises and others.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointed to centralize customs adjudication for Samsung India Electronics show cause proceedings under Customs Act.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs appoints the Additional Director General (Adjudication), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, New Delhi as Common Adjudicating Authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the Commissioner of Customs (I&G), New Delhi and the Additional Commissioner of Customs (Airport and Administration), Kolkata for adjudication of matters arising from the show cause notice issued to M/s Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. by the Additional Director General, DRI, Delhi Zonal Unit.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointed to adjudicate specified import-related show cause notices under Customs Act provisions.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, relying on sub-section (1) of section 4 and sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Customs Act, appoints the Additional Director General (Adjudication), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai as a Common Adjudicating Authority to exercise the adjudicatory powers and duties of several named Commissioners/Principal Commissioners of Customs for adjudication of show cause matters arising from DRI-issued notices concerning imports involving M/s Toshiba India Pvt. Ltd. and others.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointment: Additional Director General empowered to adjudicate antidumping duty evasion show cause notices.
Designates the Additional Director General (Adjudication), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai as the Common Adjudicating Authority empowered to exercise the powers and duties of specified Principal Commissioners of Customs and to adjudicate show cause notices concerning alleged evasion of antidumping duty in the import of SDH transmission equipment and assemblies by M/s. Vodafone India Ltd. and its subsidiaries, as issued by the Mumbai Zonal Unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence.

Common Adjudicating Authority designated to centralize adjudication of DRI show cause notices concerning an importer.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs designates the Commissioner of Customs, Bengaluru City as the Common Adjudicating Authority, under sections 4(1) and 5(1) of the Customs Act, 1962, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the Commissioner of Customs, Bengaluru City and the Commissioner of Customs, Chennai II for adjudicating matters arising from the show cause notice issued by the Additional Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Chennai Zonal Unit concerning M/s Amco Batteries Limited and others.

Warehousing Station designation permits establishment of an Export Oriented Unit at the specified location under the Customs Act.
Declaration designates Sy. No. 28/38, Chikka Gattinagabbe, Kasaba hobli, Hoskote Taluk, Bengaluru Rural District in Karnataka as a Warehousing Station under the Customs Act for the limited purpose of enabling the setting up of an Export Oriented Unit, made by the Commissioner under delegated authority.

Remission of duty on volatile goods under section seventy: specified fuels, spirits and gases eligible when deposited in a warehouse.
The notification specifies categories of volatile goods eligible for remission of duty when deposited in a warehouse: fuels and related liquids kept in tanks (including aviation fuel, motor spirit, kerosene, diesel variants, mineral turpentine, acetone, methanol, raw naphtha, vaporizing oil, batching oil and ethylene dichloride); wine, spirit and beer kept in casks; liquid helium gas in containers; and crude stored in caverns, superseding an earlier 1963 notification subject to savings for prior acts.

Rescission of customs exemption removes preferential import relief for specified goods originating from Myanmar, effective prospectively.
The Central Government, exercising statutory power under the Customs Act and related general clauses authority and acting in the public interest, rescinds Notification No. 9/95-Customs which had exempted specified goods imported from Myanmar, except as to things done or omitted prior to rescission, thereby withdrawing the prior import exemption prospectively.

Exchange Rate Determination sets customs conversion rates effective 8 January 2016 for import and export valuation.
Determination of the rate of exchange for conversion of foreign currency into Indian rupees and vice versa under the Customs Act, effective 8 January 2016, prescribing distinct conversion rates for import and export transactions in two annexed schedules (Schedule I per unit, Schedule II per 100 units), and superseding the prior notification while excluding actions completed before such supersession.

Customs exemption for petroleum operations under the Marginal Field Policy expanded to include specified goods subject to specified conditions.
A new tariff entry (serial 359A) grants nil duty treatment for goods in List 13 used in petroleum operations under the Marginal Field Policy, subject to Condition 44; the ANNEXURE amends Condition 44 clauses (a), (b)(i) and (c)(i) to include the Marginal Field Policy and specifies commencement on or after the fourteenth day of October, 2015 for clause (a).

Expansion of eligible qualifications: adding ACMA and FCMA broadens who may perform customs brokerage work.
Modifies Regulation 5(f)(ii) of the Customs Brokers Licensing Regulations, 2013 by substituting the qualification list 'CA/MBA/LLB' with 'CA/MBA/LLB/ACMA/FCMA', thereby adding ACMA and FCMA to the categories of professionals eligible to handle customs brokerage work.

Export duty on iron ore pellets reduced to nil, amending the customs exemption notification and replacing the prior rate.
Amendment substitutes a Nil export duty rate for iron ore pellets in the customs exemption Table by replacing the earlier percentage entry at the specified serial position, effected under the government's power to amend notifications in the public interest, thereby modifying the tariff treatment of iron ore pellets for export.