India-ASEAN Trade: Nil Customs Duty Boosts Free Trade Under FTA; Assumptions Shouldn't Hinder Exemptions.

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....Benefit of nil rate of Basic Customs Duty (BCD) - Free Trade agreement - country of origin - The impugned Notification is a kind of preferential trade arrangement between States of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of India in order to facilitate free movement of trade. If the exemption sought under the applicable rules is denied on one or the other pretext that too based merely on assumptions and presumptions, it will hamper the free movement of trade between agreeing nations. - AT....