Clarification with respect to amendments to Customs and Central Excise notifications for EOUs - reg.

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....and Central Excise Madam/Sir, Sub: Clarification with respect to amendments to Customs and Central Excise notifications for EOUs - reg. EOU/EHTP/STP/BTP schemes are governed by Chapter 6 of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), duly supported by the relevant Customs and Central Excise notifications. These notifications have now been amended in order to align them with the present Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), 2015-2020, as amended, as well as to remove redundancies that had crept in over the time on account of changes/supersession of certain other notifications mentioned therein and legal developments such as the introduction of GST and exempting the EOUs from the application of the Customs warehousing provisions. These amendments have been ca....

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....ifications/ provisions of the FTP etc., as follows:- (i) providing that a job worker would need registration under GST Act/Rules to enable the EOUs to export of GST goods directly from its premises. (ii) replacing the reference to Notification No. 62/2004-Customs, dated 12.05.2004 with presently valid Notification No. 50/2017-Customs, dated 30.06.2017 for payment of duty by Gem & Jewellery EOUs on the gold or silver content in the scrap, dust or sweeping cleared to DTA or for payment of duty by nominated agencies in case of failure of export in specified time frame. (iii) removing the reference to old DGFT Policy Circular No. 77(RE) 2003-2004/9, dated 31.03.2009. (iv) prescribing that wastage norms for manufacture of jewellery o....

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....l Excise dated 31.03.2003 provides for exemption from various duties of Excise on the goods listed therein when procured indigenously by the EOUs for specified purposes. This notification has been amended to provide for:- (a) deletion of reference to the Additional Duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, 1957 (58 of 1957) and Additional Duties of Excise (Textile and Textile Articles) Act, 1978 (40 of 1978) these Acts are not in existence post-GST. (b) modification of clauses (a) to (e) of the opening para of the said notification to allow procurement of excisable goods falling under the Fourth Schedule to the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944). Also, Annexures I, II, IV and V of the said notification which listed various....

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..... Notification no. 23/2003-Central Excise, dated 31.03.2003 amended by Notification No. 23/2018--Central Excise, dated 05.12.2018 4. The Notification No. 23/2003-Central Excise, dated 31.03.2003 prescribes effective duties leviable on the DTA clearance of excisable goods by EOUs. The main amendments are as follows:- (a) removal of reference to non existing entries at Sr. Nos. 5, 5A, 6 and 7A of the Table which have been omitted by Notification No. 16/2017-Central Excise, dated 30.06.2017. (b) removal of the reference to Duty Free Replenishment Certificate (DFRC), which has been replaced by Duty Free Import Authorization (DFIA). (c) removal of the condition that the goods cleared to the DTA must be "similar" to those exported ....