https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=1218 Import of heavy melting scrap was treated as compliant where the importer produced pre-shipment inspection certificates issued through Bureau Veritas, including its Mumbai office, an authorised and notified agency. The relevant DGFT public notice was read as satisfied once a certificate from an authorised agency was available. The later DGFT clarification dated 18-2-2005 was held inapplicable to a transaction already completed, because the inspection and import had occurred before that clarification and the consignment had already landed in India. Confiscation and penalty were therefore set aside. en-us Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:08:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=1218 Import of heavy melting scrap was treated as compliant where the importer produced pre-shipment inspection certificates issued through Bureau Veritas, including its Mumbai office, an authorised and notified agency. The relevant DGFT public notice was read as satisfied once a certificate from an authorised agency was available. The later DGFT clarification dated 18-2-2005 was held inapplicable to a transaction already completed, because the inspection and import had occurred before that clarification and the consignment had already landed in India. Confiscation and penalty were therefore set aside. Case-Laws Customs Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=1218