Customs - Import from Singapore - Effective Rates of Duty
GOVERNMENT has reduced the effective rates of Customs duties for 532 items. Notification No. 10/2008- Cus dated 15.01.2008 is amended. The note attached to the amending notification states that the Notification No. 10/2008 was last amended by Notification No. 150/2009 dated 31 st December 2010. This was actually 2009. Nothing wrong; a small mistake, but that goes to prove that there is absolutely no second reading in the Board. The Under Secretary who writes the notification is the Final Authority!
Nobody else reads it.
Whenever DDT finds fault with such minor mistakes, sincere Departmental officers pounce upon us, asking whether TIOL does not make mistakes. While we are flattered at being compared with the mighty government, it is submitted that even if TIOL makes mistakes, Government cannot and should not make mistakes and all that we are suggesting is a second reading and appointment of a proof reader. The other day, a colleague suggested that we should offer to do proof reading for the Board. But I told him that our proof reading is as good as the Board's - and this is no compliment!.
Notification No. , Dated: December 24, 2010