Footwear - without soles or with outer soles? DGFT corrects PN but makes another mistake.
Appendix 37D, giving details of various products that qualify for benefits under Focus Product Scheme needed a small correction. Sl. No. 8 of the table is for “Footwear without soles of rubber, plastics, leather / composition leather & uppers of leather”. Now the DGFT says it should be “Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of leather”. Good correction indeed. God knows what the position was all these days for shoes with soles! But in making this correction, the DGFT has made another mistake. The PN says, “the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following correction in the Sl. No. A of Appendix 37D……….” There is noSl. No. A, what they mean is Sl. No, 8. Maybe the DGFT babus are emulating their counterparts in the CBEC.
PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 56/(RE-2006)/2004-2009, Dated: September 22, 2006