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TIOL-DDT 36</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana"><br>
20 1 2005<br>
Thursday</span></b></font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; color: green">Anti dumping duty on Sodium
Cyanide – a jinxed notification</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">
However much we would like to congratulate the Board for rectifying its mistakes,
we rarely get an opportunity and when the rare opportunity appears to come in,
the Board manages another great blunder. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">In
<b>DDT 22</b> on the last day of 2004, we had pointed out that Board was trying
to amend a dead notification, four years after its death, by Notification No.
116/2004- cus. We had then suggested that</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: .5in"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue">Fortunately
the amendment does not cause any damage and this notification No. 116/2004 can
be withdrawn after the officers return in the New Year. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">They
did not wait till the new year, but on 31</span><sup><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">st</span></sup><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">
December itself came out with a corrigendum. And we had pointed out that the
corrigendum was worse than the amendment. While Notification No. 116/2004 sought
to amend Notification No. 83/2000 and we pointed out that Notification No. 83/2000
was superseded by Notification No. 10/2001, the Board corrigendum just changed
the amendment to 10/2001 instead of 83/2000. And we had commented that Notification
10/2001 does not contain the words that the Board wanted to change. We had suggested
a simple solution- Withdraw Notification No. 116/2004. </span> </font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue">We are happy
to report that the Board has done exactly that! </span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">But
our happiness is short-lived. Notification No. 2/2005 which rescinds Notification
No. 116/2004 as we suggested, says, <span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue">except
as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission. </span> Nothing,
absolutely nothing, was done under Notification No. 116/2004. Nothing could
be done. Notification No. 116/2004 was an impossible notification.<br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">The
story, sadly does not end here. Board has gone a step further and has now amended
Notification No. 10/2001 by notification No. 3/2005 dated 19.1.2005 and based
on the recommendations of the designated authority wants to extend the validity
of the notification No. 10/2001 till June 2005.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue">
The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective upto
and inclusive of the 25th day of June, 2005</span></font></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">Fine!, but the
Notification is actually valid till 30</span><sup><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">
January 2006! And the Board wants to </span><b> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: blue">extend
</span> </b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">it till 25</span><sup><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">
June 2005. A strange extension indeed!</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: purple">Something
terribly wrong with notification making in the Board. Any hope?? </span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">
See Notification No. </span></b></font><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=23&filename=notification/custom/2005/ctariff05_002.htm"><b>2
/2005 </b></a></font><b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">
and </span></font><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=23&filename=notification/custom/2005/ctariff05_003.htm">3/2005</a></font></b><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=23&filename=notification/custom/2005/ctariff05_003.htm">
</a></font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">
dated 19.1.2005. </span></b></font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; color: green">Supplies to SEZ eligible for
DFRC/DEPB/drawback benefit: </span></b></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana">DGFT
has clarified that since all supplies to SEZs is treated as physical exports
with effect from 1st September 2004, such supplies will be entitled to the benefit
of Drawback / DEPB / DFRC / Advance Licence under the Foreign Trade Policy.
<span style="color: blue">- <u><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=46&filename=notification/dgft/2004/dgft04cir016.htm">POLICY
CIRCULAR NO 16/2004-09, Dated : </a></u> </span></span><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=46&filename=notification/dgft/2004/dgft04cir016.htm"><u>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue">Jan 18,</span></u></a><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue">
2005</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue">
, </span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue"><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=45&filename=notification/dgft/2004/dgft04not018.htm">NOTIFICATION
NO 18 / 2004-09, Dated: </a></span> <a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=45&filename=notification/dgft/2004/dgft04not018.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue">January
18, 2005</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue">
</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana">and <u> <span style="color: blue"><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=45&filename=notification/dgft/2004/dgft04not019.htm">PUBLIC
NOTICE NO </a></span></u></span><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=45&filename=notification/dgft/2004/dgft04not019.htm"><u>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue">47/ 004-09, Dated
January 18, 2005</span></u></a></font></p>
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">"A
Little Kiss"</font></span></b></font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana">An inspector was escorting a commissioner
in a train. Opposite them sat two women. One was a very wealthy and sophisticated
60 year old lady who was decked out in the finest of jewellery. Next to her
sat a beautiful young woman, nineteen years old--who looked like something
right off the cover of a fashion magazine. As these four travelled,
they talked and chatted about trivial things until they entered an unlighted
tunnel, and there they sat in complete darkness and total silence, until the
sound of a distinct kiss broke the silence; following the kiss a loud slap
could be heard throughout the cabin. In the ensuing period of silence the
four strangers sat quietly with their own thoughts. </span></b></font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana">The older lady thought, "Isn't it
wonderful that even in this permissive day and age there are still young women
who have a little self-respect and dignity?" </span></b></font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana">The young woman, shaking her head and greatly
puzzled, asked herself, "Why in the world would any man in his right
mind want to kiss an old fossil like that when I'm sitting here?" </span></b>
</font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana">The Commissioner, rubbing his sore face,
was outraged that any woman could ever think that a man in his position would
try to sneak a kiss in the dark. </span></b></font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana">And the Inspector, grinning from ear to
ear, was thinking, "What a crazy and mixed up world this is when an Inspector
can kiss the back of his hand and then smack a Commissioner in the face and
get away with it!"</span></b></font></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; color: red">Until tomorrow
with more of DDT</span></b></font></p>
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Have a Nice Day</span></b></font></p>
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