Anti-dumping duty extension on Metaphenylene Diamine preserves existing duty during statutory review pending completion.
The amendment adds a provisional continuation clause to the principal notification so that, notwithstanding the prior paragraph, the anti-dumping duty on Metaphenylene Diamine from China PR remains in force for an extended period unless revoked earlier, thereby sustaining the existing duty during the statutory review process initiated under the Customs Tariff framework.

Profession tax changes empower notified collectors to collect and remit tax and extend liability to limited liability partnerships.
The Bill amends the Profession Tax Act to include limited liability partnerships and partners, empowers the State Government to notify persons as tax collectors who must collect and remit profession tax to the Treasury (treated as paid on behalf of the payee), permits a notified advance payment scheme at a lower rate that fixes liability, applies GST recovery provisions mutatis mutandis for profession tax dues, expands authorized officers, and authorizes the Commissioner to require statistical returns and penalize non-compliance; related amendments address tribunal qualifications, transitional TDS credit, recoverable tax thresholds, audit turnover limits and inclusion of State Tax Officers under the GST Act.

Customs airport declaration: Vijayawada replaces Hyderabad while Shamshabad Hyderabad added for cargo loading and unloading operations.
Vijayawada is substituted for Hyderabad as the notified customs airport for Andhra Pradesh in the Schedule to Notification No. 61/94(NT)-CUSTOMS; additionally, Shamshabad Hyderabad is inserted as an airport for Telangana for the purpose of unloading imported goods and loading export goods, thereby updating the Table of airports and specifying the locations where the listed customs cargo operations may be conducted under section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962.

Anti-dumping duty termination on melamine after sunset review finds no attributable injury and recommends rescission.
The designated authority's sunset review found no material injury from dumped imports of Melamine from the specified countries, noted significant competing imports from a non-subject source at comparable or lower prices, and concluded anti-dumping protection was limited to existing domestic capacity. Consequently, the Central Government has rescinded the earlier notification imposing anti-dumping duty on Melamine from those countries, except as to actions already taken prior to rescission.

GST procedural amendments expand challan rules for job workers and clarify Authority powers on investigations and decision-making.
The amendment expands challan mechanics for job workers, allowing principals or sending job workers to issue challans and for sequential endorsements by intervening job workers; designates the Secretary to the Authority as an officer not below Additional Commissioner; permits the Authority to refer matters back to the Director General of Safeguards for further investigation; clarifies quorum and majority decision-making with chairman's casting vote; adds a complaint ground alleging failure to pass on tax-rate reductions or input tax credit benefits; and excludes leasing of railway parcel space from 'transport of goods by rail' for the Chapter.

Special Economic Zone expansion: additional area notified, increasing SEZ territory and updating survey particulars.
Notification adds 0.50 hectares to the sector specific IT/ITES Special Economic Zone at Gachibowli (survey 35/part), effectuated under the amendment power in section 4 of the SEZ Act and rule 8 of the SEZ Rules, resulting in a revised total SEZ area of 2.89 hectares.

Anti-profiteering committee constituted under GST rules; a two-member State Level Screening Committee appointed for screening and enforcement.
Constitution of a State Level Screening Committee on anti-profiteering for Tamil Nadu under the Goods and Services Tax framework, superseding an earlier departmental notification and appointing specified State Tax and GST officials to perform screening functions and initial enforcement responsibility.

Authorization under Section 70: Assistant Commissioners and GST officers empowered to exercise specified statutory powers under the Act.
All Assistant Commissioners and Goods and Services Tax Officers in the Department of Trade & Taxes are empowered, subject to the statutory limitation on delegation, to exercise the powers conferred by Section 70 and the rules made thereunder, by authority of the State Tax Commissioner under the enabling definitions provision.

Rescission of notification under section 128 of Puducherry GST Act withdraws prior notification, with a saving for prior acts.
The Lieutenant Governor, under section 128 of the Puducherry Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, rescinds G.O. Ms. No. 11 dated 23 January 2018, subject to a saving that preserves acts done or omissions made before rescission; the rescission is deemed effective from 7 March 2018.

E-way bill rules require electronic pre-movement data and document carriage for consignments above fifty thousand rupees.
The amendment mandates electronic generation of e-way bills for consignments exceeding fifty thousand rupees with information in FORM GST EWB-01 (Part A before movement; Part B by consignor/consignee or transporter), permits authorised agents and e commerce operators to furnish data, allows consolidated e-way bills (EWB-02), requires carriage of prescribed documents or RFID-mapped e-way bill identifiers, and prescribes interception, online inspection reporting (EWB-03), detention reporting (EWB-04), cancellation rules, distance based validity periods, specified exemptions and related form revisions.

Rescission of notification withdraws a prior state GST notification prospectively while preserving prior acts and omissions.
The Governor, under the Haryana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 and on the Council's recommendation, rescinds Haryana Government, Excise and Taxation Department notification No. 18/ST-2 dated 25 January 2018, with a savings provision preserving things done or omitted before the rescission.

E-way bill generation requirement expands, mandating electronic pre-movement reporting and document mapping to enable transport and verification.
The amendments require electronic pre-movement furnishing of specified information in FORM GST EWB-01 for consignments exceeding the value threshold, with Part A and Part B entries to be provided by supplier, recipient, transporter or authorised agents; permit transporters to generate or consolidate e-way bills (FORM GST EWB-02); set validity, cancellation and extension rules; list exemptions and an Annexure of excluded goods; and replace rules 138A-138D to mandate carriage of documents or e-way identifiers (including RFID mapping), inspection and reporting procedures (FORM GST EWB-03), detention reporting (FORM GST EWB-04), and use of FORM GST INV-1 for Invoice Reference Numbers.

Tariff value fixation for specified imported commodities establishes customs valuation benchmarks affecting import clearance and duty assessment.
The Central Board of Excise & Customs, under section 14(2) of the Customs Act, 1962, amends the principal customs notification by substituting TABLE-1, TABLE-2 and TABLE-3 to prescribe tariff values as valuation benchmarks for specified imported commodities, including defined edible oils, Brass Scrap, Poppy Seeds, Areca Nuts, and specified Gold and Silver entries.

Exchange rate determination under the Customs Act sets prescribed import and export conversion rates for customs valuation.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, under authority of the Customs Act, determines fixed conversion rates of specified foreign currencies into Indian rupees for customs purposes, distinguishing separate rates for imported and export goods and listing them in Schedule I (per unit) and Schedule II (per 100 units); the notification supersedes the prior notification and makes these rates effective from the stated operative date for customs valuation and related purposes.

Anti dumping duty on imports of Ofloxacin from China PR to address dumping and injury, with specified producer rates.
Definitive anti dumping duty is imposed on imports of Ofloxacin from China PR after findings of dumping, material injury, and causation; specified duty rates are applied to particular producers, exporters and other combinations for the listed tariff items, with duties expressed per kilogram in US dollars but payable in Indian currency using Government specified exchange rates determined as of bill of entry presentation; the measure remains effective for three years unless earlier altered.

E way bill requirement: registered persons and transporters must electronically generate and update e way bills before goods movement.
Registered persons causing movement of goods above the prescribed consignment value must electronically furnish details in Part A of FORM GST EWB 01 on the common portal before movement; consignor, consignee or transporter must furnish Part B when goods are moved by road, with the portal generating a unique e way bill number. Transporters may generate or consolidate e way bills (FORM GST EWB 02) based on provided information; cancellation, validity periods, assignment to other transporters, RFID mapping, and verification procedures through proper officers and FORM GST EWB 03/EWB 04 are prescribed.

De-notification of Special Economic Zone area reduces SEZ land after approval and regulatory compliance conditions.
The Central Government, under the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 and rule 8 of the SEZ Rules, 2006, de-notifies specified survey parcels at Kakinada proposed by M/s. Kakinada SEZ Limited, totalling 48.5715 hectares, after State Government approval and Development Commissioner recommendation, thereby adjusting the SEZ's notified area to the resultant extent and listing the affected survey numbers and villages.

Special Economic Zone designation for IT/ITES in Hinjewadi enables development approval and deems the area an Inland Container Depot.
The Central Government notifies 3.4659 hectares in Hinjewadi, Pune as an IT/ITES Sector Specific Special Economic Zone, recording prior approval to M/s. Nalanda Shelter Pvt. Ltd for development, operation and maintenance, constituting an Approval Committee with specified ex officio members and a developer representative, and declares the notified SEZ area to be deemed an Inland Container Depot under the Customs Act from the notification date.

Natural gas taxation: reduced rate for sales to registered industrial units for manufacture, subject to prescribed certificate.
The notification substitutes Schedule IV entry 8(a) to provide that natural gas other than CNG sold to an industrial unit or dealer registered under state GST or state VAT for use in the process of manufacture of taxable goods, when supplied against the certificate prescribed by the Commissioner, is taxable at a concessional rate. The point of taxation is the Manufacturer or Importer.

Appointment of tax officers: designated personnel authorised to discharge statutory duties under GST and VAT laws.
Appointment of officers to perform statutory functions under the Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 and the Delhi Value Added Tax Act, 2004. Specified personnel are appointed to assist the Commissioner of State Tax and Value Added Tax, each mapped to corresponding dual designations under both Acts, with authority to discharge statutory duties from the date of assumption of charge.