Customs duty exemption expanded to suppliers and contractors for Games imports, subject to re-export or duty liability.
Amendments expand the customs duty exemption for the Common Wealth Games, 2010 by adding specified event goods and expressly extending eligibility to suppliers, contractors, vendors and sub-vendors of the Organising Committee and broadcasting rights holders; these parties must provide an undertaking at clearance that non-consumable imports will be consumed, re-exported, or handed over to designated local authorities within three months of the Games' conclusion, failing which they will be liable to pay the duty that would otherwise have been payable.

Exchange Rate Determination: Revised import and export currency conversion rates take effect 1 September 2010.
Determination of prescribed rates of exchange for conversion of specified foreign currencies into Indian currency and vice versa for customs valuation, with separate import and export rates set out in two schedules and effective from 1 September 2010, superseding the prior notification except as to completed acts.

Import exemption for Games goods allows specified items to enter without DGFT authorization, subject to re export and compliance.
Exemption granted to the Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games 2010 and its certified importers from DGFT import authorization for specified items (HCFC air conditioners, certain telecom equipment excluding specified transceivers and Thuraya phones, and second hand goods for ceremonies), subject to re export within three months with an undertaking at customs and compliance with Ministry of Finance Notification No.13/2010 Customs and all applicable domestic laws and technical, environmental and safety norms.

Special Economic Zone land amendment: equal inclusion and de notification of parcels preserves the SEZ's previously notified area.
Notification amends the land composition of a sector specific Special Economic Zone for IT and IT enabled services at Gandhinagar by accepting the sponsoring authority's proposal to include and de notify equal parcels, specifying the affected survey/plot entries and maintaining the previously notified total area, after satisfaction of statutory prerequisites under the SEZ Act and Rules.

Deemed income for employer provident contributions adjusted, lowering the prescribed interest rate and altering tax computation from the notified date.
Prescribes the interest rate for computing deemed income on employer annual contributions to a recognised provident fund under the Fourth Schedule to the Income-tax Act. The Central Government, under powers conferred by the relevant rule of Part A of the Fourth Schedule, supersedes the prior notification and fixes a lower prescribed rate to be applied for calculating taxable deemed income from employer contributions, effective from the notified date.

Special Economic Zone expansion: additional land formally incorporated into the Heavy Engineering SEZ following statutory approval.
Notification adds a defined parcel of land to an existing Special Economic Zone for the Heavy Engineering sector at Village Kattupalli, Ponneri Taluk, District Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, following the developer's proposal and the government's grant of approval after satisfaction of statutory and rule-based requirements; the Central Government formally notifies the specified survey parcel and subdivision as part of the SEZ under powers conferred by the Act and SEZ Rules.

Renewal of recognition for OTC Exchange subject to compliance with public shareholding regulations and a regulatory circular.
Renewal of recognition is granted to OTC Exchange of India under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act for one year from 23 August 2010 to 22 August 2011, subject to the condition that the Exchange commence trading only after full compliance with the Manner of Increasing and Maintaining Public Shareholding in Recognised Stock Exchanges Regulations, 2006 and the regulator's specified circular, and subject to any additional conditions prescribed by the regulator.

Foreign Trade Policy notification incorporates Annual Supplement, updating the trade policy framework and making amendments operative.
Notification formally incorporates the Annual Supplement into the Foreign Trade Policy 2009-2014 by exercise of statutory powers, declares the updated policy effective from the notification date, identifies the issuing Department as authority, and thereby makes the Supplement's provisions operative within the export-import policy framework.

Rescission of anti-dumping notification withdraws earlier Customs directive, subject to actions already taken under it.
Central Government rescinds an earlier Customs notification concerning Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty and Determination of Injury, exercising powers under the Customs Tariff Act and the Customs Tariff anti-dumping Rules, 1995, and provides that the rescission does not affect actions done or omitted before the rescission.

Anti-dumping duty on Coumarin imports imposed to offset dumped imports, applying to specified producers, exporters and origins.
Imposition of definitive anti-dumping duty on Coumarin imports follows findings of dumping below normal value from the People's Republic of China causing material injury to domestic industry; duty equals the difference between a specified reference amount and the landed value of imports, applied per Kg in the stated currency to named producers/exporters and other specified scenarios.

Customs corrigendum: amends identifier references in a tariff exemption notification to correct condition numbers.
The corrigendum directs that in notification No. 80/2010-Customs (published 10 August 2010) the figure and letter "5B" at line 30 be read as "5C", and in the table the entry under "Condition No." shown as "5C" be read as "5D".

Foreign trade policy expansion to cover services and technology, expanding controls, licences and enforcement powers.
The Amendment incorporates services and technology within the Foreign Trade Policy, defines "services", "service supplier", "technology" and "specified goods or services or technology", conditions IEC and policy benefits on dealing with specified items, expands licensing and benefit instruments to include certificates and scrips, and enlarges enforcement powers including suspension or cancellation of IECs, search and seizure, penalties proportionate to the value of goods, services or technology, recovery mechanisms, confiscation, and crediting penalties to the Consolidated Fund.

Export Restrictions on Cotton: prior contract registration required and seasonal export cap; customs must verify registration.
The Foreign Trade Policy amendment revises export entries for cotton tariff classifications to a conditional free-export regime requiring prior registration of export contracts with DGFT, Customs verification of such registration before clearance, and application of seasonal export caps; subsequent amendments modified registration procedures and caps and later substituted the policy entries to prohibit exports for specified cotton tariff lines.

Export condition for basmati rice: grain must meet specified length and length-to-breadth ratio for export permission.
Amendment prescribes a grain specification as the operative export condition for Basmati rice, including PUSA Basmati 1121, substituting the existing restriction entry in the cited Foreign Trade Policy notification; the Central Government, under Section 5 read with Section 3(2) of the Foreign Trade Act and relevant policy paragraphs, requires rice to meet specified dimensional criteria for export and gives the change immediate effect.

SEZ appointment amendment: removal of Chandigarh Administration entry from the Development Commissioner designation under SEZ rules.
The Central Government amends notification S.O.1916(E) appointing the Director, Software Technology Parks of India, New Delhi as Development Commissioner by deleting the row at Sl. No. 2 concerning the Chandigarh Administration and its sectoral designation, pursuant to powers under Section 4 of the SEZ Act and rule 8 of the SEZ Rules.

SEZ staffing rules: consolidation establishes recruitment, deputation, re designation and cost recovery procedures for government and private zones.
The consolidated instructions institute a unified staffing framework for Government and private SEZs effective 16 August 2010, prescribing sanctioned manpower structures, pay scales, post classifications and modes of appointment on a cost recovery basis; require Zonal Development Commissioners to assess needs and prepare panels for Deputy/Joint Development Commissioner posts; mandate deputation based appointments for key posts under DoPT terms with specified eligibility; provide re designation and temporary augmentation measures for ADCs; and set cost sharing and administrative procedures for posts serving multiple SEZs.

Denotification of SEZ land reduces the notified area under the SEZ Act, revising the zone's total extent per applicable rules.
The Central Government, exercising powers under the Special Economic Zones Act and applicable SEZ Rules, denotifies 15.2702 hectares from the sector specific engineering SEZ at Village Rajoda proposed by M/s. N.G. Realty Private Limited, thereby revising the notified area of the SEZ to 217.1409 hectares. The denotification follows the developer's proposal and prior letter of approval, and identifies the specific survey/block numbers and parcel areas removed from notification for administrative record.

Special Economic Zone designation establishes an approval committee and confers inland container depot status for the biotech zone.
Notification designates a sector-specific Special Economic Zone for biotechnology at Survey No. 354 (10.12 hectares) under the SEZ Act, 2005; grants approval for development, operation and maintenance; constitutes an Approval Committee with specified ex officio members and a developer special invitee; and declares the zone to be deemed an Inland Container Depot under the Customs Act, thereby applying the customs classification and related regulatory regime.

Tariff value fixation updated for specified edible oils, brass scrap and poppy seeds, amending prior customs notification.
Amends an earlier customs notification by substituting a new Table that fixes tariff values per metric tonne for specified categories of palm oil and palmolein (crude, RBD and others), crude soyabean oil, brass scrap (all grades) and poppy seeds, with several entries noted as unchanged and references to the principal notification and its recent amendment.

Courier clearance compliance now requires qualified declaration filers, enhanced financial thresholds, client verification, and restricted outsourcing.
Declarations for clearance of imported or export goods must be made by duly authorised persons who have passed the prescribed Customs House Agents licensing examination, subject to a six-month transition period for Authorised Couriers. The amendments also revise specified financial thresholds, permit delayed consignee authorisation for low-value import consignments, require verification of client identity, Importer Exporter Code number and declared address, and prohibit subcontracting or outsourcing regulated functions without written permission.