Appointment of common adjudicating authority: Commissioner ICD Tughlakabad to adjudicate DRI show cause notices against specified companies.
Under sections 4(1) and 5(1) of the Customs Act, the Central Board appoints the Commissioner of Customs, Inland Container Depot, Tughlakabad as the Common Adjudicating Authority to exercise the powers of the Commissioner of Customs (Export Promotion), Mumbai for adjudicating show cause notices issued by the DRI Ludhiana concerning M/s Dollar Poly Pipes (India) Limited, M/s Shivalik Plastichem (India) Limited and others.

Appointment of common adjudicating authority to transfer adjudication of specified Customs show cause notices concerning Rose Zinc Limited.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, under sections 4(1) and 5(1) of the Customs Act, appoints the Commissioner of Customs (Import), Jawahar Customs House, Nhava Sheva as Common Adjudicating Authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the Commissioner of Customs, Custom House, Jaipur, for adjudicating matters arising from the show cause notice issued to M/s Rose Zinc Limited and others by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Delhi Zonal Unit dated 30th March 2007.

Common Adjudicating Authority appointed to adjudicate DRI show cause notices against M/s Paradise International under Customs Act.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs appoints the Commissioner at the Inland Container Depot, Tughlakabad, New Delhi, as a Common Adjudicating Authority to exercise the adjudicatory powers of the Commissioners of Customs (Imports) for Mumbai and Nhava Sheva solely for adjudicating matters arising from the Show Cause Notice issued to M/s Paradise International and others by the Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence.

Tariff value fixation for edible oils and brass scrap updated under Customs Act affecting import valuation and compliance.
The Central Board of Excise & Customs, invoking sub-section (2) of Section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962, substitutes the Table in Notification No.36/2001-Cus (N.T.) with a new Table fixing tariff values (US$/per metric tonne) for Crude Palm Oil, RBD Palm Oil, other Palm Oil, Crude Palmolein, RBD Palmolein, other Palmolein, Crude Soyabean Oil and Brass Scrap; oil values are indicated as unchanged and a tariff value is specified for Brass Scrap.

Customs settlement procedure prescribes application form, fee, duty deposit, disclosure requirements, and provisional attachment safeguards.
Customs settlement procedure under section 127B requires applications in Form SC(C)-1, filed in quintuplicate with the prescribed fee, along with deposit of the accepted additional customs duty and interest through the authorised bank. The rules specify who may sign the application, require supporting bills of entry or shipping bills and related documents, provide for disclosure to the Settlement Commission and the Commissioner, and lay down the manner of provisional attachment of property. A fee is also prescribed for copies of reports under section 127G.

Exchange rate determination for exported goods fixes conversion rates to Indian rupees for customs valuation.
The Board determines, under its statutory powers, fixed rates of exchange of specified foreign currencies into Indian rupees for the purposes of export goods, superseding the earlier notification; the rate mentioned against each currency in the appended schedules is to be applied for conversion with effect from the stated effective date.

Exchange rate determination for imported goods sets official currency conversion benchmarks for customs assessment.
The Board, under section 14(3)(a)(i) of the Customs Act, 1962, supersedes the prior notification and prescribes specified conversion rates for listed foreign currencies into Indian rupees and vice versa for imported goods, set out in Schedule I and Schedule II, with an effective date for their application to customs assessments.

Exemption limit for commercial samples increased, expanding eligibility for duty-free importation under customs notification.
Amendment increases the exemption limit for commercial samples imported to execute or secure export orders by substituting higher monetary thresholds in Notification No.154/94-Cus: the threshold in Sl. No. 3, condition (iv) and the threshold in Sl. No. 3, condition (v), item (A), sub-item (b) are raised by Notification No. 74/2007-Cus dated May 21, 2007.

Exemption for effluent treatment plant machinery extended to handloom and handicraft sectors, enabling duty-free importation.
Amendment inserts tariff entries granting a nil duty exemption for machinery and equipment for effluent treatment plants for the handloom and handicraft sectors, and substitutes the notification condition to extend eligibility from the leather industry to include the handloom and handicraft sectors.

Export entitlement restrictions: import and export categories aligned with Foreign Trade Policy, EPCG credits excluded from scheme benefits.
Amendments require imports under the Served From India Scheme to conform to paragraph 3.12.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, exclude items prohibited or restricted by that Policy, and deny benefits where foreign exchange credited under the EPCG Scheme (over average) is used. The changes list categories of exports excluded from entitlement calculations (including imported goods under Para 2.35, transshipment exports, deemed exports, SEZ-related supplies and specified commodities and precious items), expand beneficiary coverage to tiny and cottage sector units in one notification, restrict spare parts eligibility to those actually imported for maintenance, and add a Committee-based waiver mechanism for export obligation failure due to force majeure or unforeseen circumstances.

Tariff value fixation amended for specified edible oils and brass scrap, updating customs valuation schedule for imports.
The Central Board of Excise & Customs, under sub-section (2) of Section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962, substitutes the Table in Notification No.36/2001-Cus (N.T.) by Notification No.51/2007-Customs (N.T.), setting out tariff values in US dollars per metric tonne for specified imported goods including Crude Palm Oil, RBD Palm Oil, Palmolein variants, Crude Soyabean Oil and Brass Scrap (all grades), with most entries noted as no change from the prior schedule.

Customs amendment extends the effective date for exemptions under Notification No.21/2002, postponing implementation to a later year.
Amendment to Notification No.21/2002 substitutes the specified effective date in the proviso to clause (f), replacing the earlier scheduled date with a later one for applicability of exemptions and effective basic and additional duty rates across Chapters 1 to 99, effected under the executive powers of the Customs Act as recorded in Notification No.71/2007-Customs.

Rescission of notification revokes an earlier customs notification while preserving actions already taken under it.
The Central Government, invoking statutory authority under the Customs Act and relevant finance provisions and acting in the public interest, rescinds Notification No. 27/2007 issued in March 2007, withdrawing its operative effect while expressly preserving things done or omitted to be done before the rescission.

Exemption from Secondary and Higher Education Cess declared for goods under an earlier customs notification, updating Finance Act references.
Central Government, under section 25(1) of the Customs Act, substitutes the preamble of an earlier customs notification to update references to the Finance Act, 2007 and to exempt all goods covered by the 2004 customs notification from the whole of the Secondary and Higher Education Cess leviable under the cited Finance Act provisions, on the ground of public interest.

Rescission under section 25(1) of the Customs Act withdraws a prior notification and alters the duty rate framework.
Rescission of a prior customs notification is effected by invoking section 25(1) of the Customs Act on satisfaction of public interest, withdrawing Notification No.21/2007 Customs (G.S.R.118(E) dated 1 March 2007) and removing the previously notified framework for effective duty rates across specified tariff chapters by administrative revocation published in the Gazette.

Anti-dumping duty continuation extended pending statutory review; notification period prolonged to keep measures in force.
The Central Government, exercising statutory powers under the Customs Tariff Act and applicable anti-dumping rules, amends the original notification to extend the operation of the anti-dumping duty on vitrified and porcelain tiles originating in specified foreign sources, inserting a provision that the notification shall remain in force until the notified terminal date unless revoked earlier, thereby maintaining the duty pending completion of the review.

Anti-dumping duty on Potassium Carbonate imports from a Taiwanese exporter imposed, effective until November and payable in Indian currency.
Following revocation of a price undertaking by M/s Taiwan Pulp and Paper Corporation, the Central Government imposed an anti dumping duty on Potassium Carbonate exported by that company, payable in Indian currency and effective up to and inclusive of 8 November 2007; the rupee amount is to be calculated using the Government specified exchange rate with the relevant date being the date of presentation of the bill of entry.

Amendment to anti dumping notification removes exporter undertaking and provisos, modifying anti dumping duty provisions administration
Amendment omits, from paragraph 1 of the principal anti dumping notification on Potassium Carbonate, the clause recording an exporter's undertaking not to export below a specified CIF price and deletes the provisos occurring after the Table, thereby removing that pricing undertaking and the qualifying provisos from the notification.

Prohibition on export of unmarked or unstamped goods enforces trade mark identification and stamping compliance before export.
The notification, issued under the powers of section 11 of the Customs Act, prohibits export of goods that are required by notification under the Trade Marks Act to bear an indication of country or manufacturer but have not applied such indication as specified, and also prohibits export of goods required to be stamped under the Trade Marks Act but not stamped as specified in the Trade Marks Rules, 2002.

Import prohibition of intellectual-property-infringing goods bars entry of counterfeit marks, false descriptions, pirated designs and patented products absent consent.
Prohibits the import of specified categories of goods that infringe or falsely represent intellectual property rights, subject to the procedural conditions set out in the Intellectual Property Rights (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules, 2007. Covered goods include those bearing a false trade mark or false trade description, goods bearing or imitating a registered design without licence, products under an in-force patent or obtained by a patented process without patentee consent or where importation is otherwise permitted, goods with a false Geographical Indication, and goods prohibited by an order of the Registrar of Copyrights.