All Industry Rates of Drawback and other Drawback related changes

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.... alia, prevailing prices of inputs, input output norms, share of imports in input consumption, the rates of central excise and customs duties, incidence of service tax paid on taxable services which are used as input services in the manufacturing or processing of export goods, incidence of duty on HSD/furnace oil, value of export goods, etc. The notification may be downloaded from Board's website and carefully perused for details of the changes. Some of the changes are highlighted below - (a) AIRS have been provided to certain worked articles under chapters 45, 46 and 68; (b) Certain products, earlier with all customs AIRS, have been provided composite rates. These include rubber parts (for automobile or other machinery) of chapter ....

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....ogether is of leather, This is in the light of newer design and commercial practices; (f) Residuary rate (customs) provided to items across various chapters has been reduced from 1.9% to 1.5% and from 1.4% to 1.1%. 2. The notification also specifies the alternative AIRS on garment exports made against the Special Advance Authorization (para 4.04A of FTP 2015-20) in discharge of export obligations in terms of Notification No. 45/2016-Customs dated 13.8.2016. For claiming these alternative AIRS, the relevant tariff item has to be suffixed with suffix ICI or suffix ID for the situation when Cenvat facility has not been availed or when Cenvat facility has been availed, respectively, instead of the usual suffix 'A' or suffix 'B'. The ....

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.... line, the drawback rate eligible shall be the drawback rate appropriate to the size of the master pack, 5. It is noted that field formations intermittently raise the issue, with exporters, of admissibility of drawback on parts of machinery under individual drawback tariff lines where the AIR is provided at 4-digit level but the 4-digit description does not specifically indicate the word "parts". In the Drawback Schedule's notification's notes and conditions it is specified that the tariff items and description of goods in the Drawback Schedule are aligned with the tariff items and description of goods in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act 1975 at the 4- digit level and that the general rules for interpretation ....