Applicability of service tax on the services by way of transportation of goods by a vessel from a place outside India to the customs station in India w.r.t. goods intended for transhipment to any country outside India

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....of Revenue (Tax Research Unit) ***** Dated- 16th February, 2017 To, Principal Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise(All) Principal Chief Commissioners of Central Excise & Service Tax (All) Principal Director Generals of Goods and Service Tax/System/CEI Director General of Audit/Tax Payer Services, Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise (All) Prin....

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....re destined for any other country are allowed to be transshipped through Indian territory without payment of Customs duty in India. This is subject to the condition that such goods imported into a customs station are mentioned in the import manifest or the import report, as the case may be, as for transhipment to any place outside India. [Section 54(2) of the Customs Act, 1962]. Further, Goods Imp....

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....mported into a customs station in India intended for transhipment to any country outside India, the destination of goods is not a place in taxable territory in India but a country other than India if the same is mentioned in the import manifest or the import report as the case may be and the goods are transhipped in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962 and rules made there under....