Review of SIONs A-1443, A-1170, A-3627 and K-134
DGFT had suspended the above mentioned SIONs vide PN No.30 dated 4th October, 2013 and reinstated the same with amendments in SIONs A-3627 and K-134 vide PN No.66 dated 11th July 2014, based on representations received from trade and industry.
It has been proposed to further review these SIONs in terms of para 4.10.1 of HBP vl.
So, the Manufacturers of export products covered under the aforementioned SIONs and the concerned Export Promotion Councils/Associations are requested to submit production and consumption data for further review of these SIONs by the 27th of August, 2014.
It is also emphasized that failure to provide the data, so required, by the specified date would result in stoppage of the benefit of Advance Authorization/DFIA for export products covered by these SIONs and the SIONs would be modified based on available data.
Interestingly, this Trade Notice tries to achieve the impossible - It refers to SION A-1443 and says that it was wrongly mentioned as A-1143 in the PN 30 dated 4.10.2013. In fact, this wrong continued in PN No.66 dated 11th July 2014 too.
Be informed that SION A-1443 refers to Oxalic Acid and SION A-1143 refers to Phosphorous Trichloride and supposedly they are not one and the same.
Some unseen retrospective legislation here?
DGFT Trade Notice 11/2014, Dated: August 7, 2014