Common adjudicating authority appointed to adjudicate a show cause notice under the Customs Act for a named importer.
Appoints an Additional Commissioner of Customs (Import) at Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House, Nhava Sheva, as a common adjudicating authority authorised to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of two specified customs offices for the limited purpose of adjudicating a Show Cause Notice issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in respect of M/s. Gujrat Pickers Industries Limited.

Appointment of common adjudicating authority to exercise customs adjudication powers for specified show cause notices.
Pursuant to sections 4(1) and 5(1) of the Customs Act, 1962, the Central Board of Excise and Customs appoints the Additional Commissioner of Customs, Custom House, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and duties of two Additional Commissioners (Import) at Nhava Sheva and Ballard Estate, Mumbai, exclusively for adjudication of show cause notices issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence concerning M/s. Hi-Growth Importer and Exporters and others as referenced in the notification.

Appointment of common adjudicating authority to centralize adjudication of a DRI-issued show cause notice against an importer.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs designates the Commissioner of Customs (Import), New Custom House, Mumbai as the common adjudicating authority to exercise the adjudicatory powers previously assigned to two named customs officers for the purpose of deciding a specific show cause notice issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence against M/s. Shree Maruti Nandan Impex, thereby transferring jurisdiction and centralizing proceedings without addressing the merits of the allegations.

Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority to adjudicate specified customs show cause notices and reassign adjudicatory responsibility.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, under powers conferred by the Customs Act, appoints the Commissioner of Customs (Seaport-Export) as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of another commissioner for adjudicating specified show cause notices arising from an intelligence-led investigation, thereby effecting administrative reassignment of adjudicatory responsibility for those matters.

Common adjudicating authority appointed to transfer customs adjudication powers for specified show cause notices to Kolkata port commissioner.
Appoints a common adjudicating authority under sections 4(1) and 5(1) of the Customs Act to enable the Commissioner of Customs (Port), Kolkata to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the Commissioner of Customs (Import), Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House, Nhava Sheva, for adjudication of show cause notices related to M/s B.S. Enterprises and an associated proceeding arising from a zonal revenue intelligence investigation.

Appointment of a common adjudicating authority centralises customs adjudication for specified show cause proceedings.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs designates the Commissioner of Customs (Port), Kolkata as the Common Adjudicating Authority, empowering that officer to exercise and discharge adjudicatory powers and duties previously vested in specified customs officers, for the purpose of adjudicating show cause notices and related proceedings arising from revenue intelligence-originated investigations concerning certain import cases, including notices related to M/s New Hosiery Impex Private Limited and others.

Common adjudicating authority appointed to consolidate adjudication of a DRI show cause notice against an exporter.
The Central Board appoints the Commissioner of Customs, Inland Container Depot, Tughlakabad, New Delhi as common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of specified Customs Commissioners for adjudicating the Show Cause Notice issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in respect of M/s Duggal Exports, dated 19 May 2007.

Common adjudicating authority appointed to adjudicate show cause proceedings issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence.
The Commissioner of Customs (Import), Jawaharlal Nehru Customs House, Nhava Sheva, is appointed to exercise the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Customs (Preventive commissionerate), Amritsar, for adjudicating the show cause proceedings relating to M/s Ganesh Agro and others issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Regional Unit Ludhiana, dated 29 September 2007.

Appointment of customs officers: Directorate General intelligence officers vested with customs ranks and territorial jurisdiction.
Appoints officers of the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence as officers of Customs, specifying corresponding customs ranks and vesting them with the territorial jurisdiction set out in the Table; the notification supersedes an earlier notification except as to prior actions and is noted as later superseded by a subsequent notification.

Customs cargo handling standards require approval, infrastructure, security, and compliance with obligations, with penalties for contravention.
These Regulations require approval of a Customs Cargo Service provider on satisfaction of prescribed infrastructure, security, computerized systems, insurance, bonds and undertakings to bear cost recovery charges; impose operational duties such as record keeping, segregation of cargo, prohibition on removal without proper filings and permissions, and disposal obligations for unclaimed goods; and provide a procedural framework for suspension, revocation, review, renewal and imposition of administrative penalties for contraventions.

Tariff value fixation: notification substitutes a tariff-value table assigning values for specified imported oils, brass scrap and seeds.
Amendment substitutes the prior notification's table with a new schedule fixing tariff values in US dollars per metric tonne for specified imported goods under the authority of sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962, listing edible oils, brass scrap (all grades) and poppy seeds with assigned tariff values, several marked as unchanged.

Customs exemption calculation now set as the difference between Table amount and landed value per unit, changing rate basis.
Amendment replaces the prior formulation tying the rate to the Table amount with a provision fixing the applicable rate as the difference between the amount specified in the Table (in the stated currency and per unit) and the landed value of such imported goods in like currency per like unit, thereby changing the basis for calculating the rate applicable to the relevant exemption entries.

Customs notification amendment updates currency denominations and replaces Burma/Burmese with Myanmar/Myanmarese in official text.
The notification amends an existing customs notification under section 76(2) by omitting a list of former national currencies, inserting the word Euro after 'Canadian Dollars', replacing the country name 'Burma' with 'Myanmar', and substituting the adjectival form 'Burmese' with 'Myanmarese', as textual updates to the principal notification.

Exemption period extended: customs notification amends expiry date for specified defence and programme imports to year-end.
The Central Government, exercising authority under the Customs Act, amends Notification No.39/96 by substituting in the Table against S.No.14, Explanation, the date "the 31st day of December, 2009" in place of "the 1st day of January, 2009", thereby extending the temporal application of the exemption for specified goods imported by defence and related entities and for the listed programmes.

Actual user condition exemption allows raw sugar import authorisations to meet export obligations by procuring white sugar elsewhere.
The notification amends prior Advance Licensing Scheme notifications to exempt the actual user condition for authorisations issued for import of raw sugar during the specified period and allows export obligations to be fulfilled by procuring white sugar from other factories, thereby modifying user restriction and permissible fulfilment routes for those import authorisations.

Warehousing station designation enables customs authority to declare premises for regulated storage under customs law.
The Chief Commissioner of Customs (Preventive), invoking powers under a prior statutory notification, formally declares No. 32, Kallabhirampuram, Madhuranthankam Taluk, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, to be a warehousing station under Section 9 of the Customs Act, 1962, thereby identifying the premises as a site for customs-controlled storage and regulatory oversight.

Inland Container Depot designation: Hassan added for unloading imports and loading exports under customs notification.
Amendment inserts item (iv) for Hassan in the Table to Notification No.12/97-Customs (N.T.) under serial number 6 for Karnataka, identifying Hassan as an inland container depot authorised for the unloading of imported goods and the loading of export goods, thereby expanding the list of operational ICD locations and specifying its permissible customs functions.

Fixation of tariff values updates reference import prices for specified edible oils, brass scrap and poppy seeds.
Substitution of the tariff-value Table in Notification No. 36/2001-Cus (N.T.) fixes tariff values in US dollars per metric tonne for listed goods for customs import valuation. The Table covers crude and refined variants of palm oil and palmolein, crude soybean oil, brass scrap (all grades) and poppy seeds. Most edible-oil entries retain their existing tariff values; explicit tariff-value figures are specified for brass scrap and poppy seeds. The substitution is effected by Notification No. 22/2009-CUSTOMS (N.T.), dated 27th February 2009.

Anti-dumping duty on plain MDF imports imposed; provisional duties prescribed by producer and country of origin.
Provisional anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of Plain Medium Density Fibre Board under heading 4411 from China PR, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand and Sri Lanka, with differentiated duty rates in US Dollars per cubic meter specified by producer, exporter, country of origin and country of export. The duty is levied under section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act read with the 1995 Anti-dumping Rules, payable in Indian currency, effective until the notification's expiry, and conversion shall use the exchange rate notified under section 14 of the Customs Act with the bill of entry date as relevant date.

Rate of Exchange for customs conversion established for specified foreign currencies, affecting import and export valuation procedures.
Determination of rate of exchange for conversion between specified foreign currencies and Indian currency for customs valuation of imported and exported goods, superseding the earlier notification and prescribing distinct import and export rates in attached schedules, with a separate conversion basis for the Japanese yen; the new rates apply for statutory conversion purposes and do not affect prior actions.