Amendment of SION for the export product under S.No.A1875 - DGFT - 21/2015-2020

Government of India Ministry of Commerce Industry Department of Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DES-IV Section) Public Notice NO. 21/2015-2020 New Delhi: Dated 6 th July, 2016 In exercise of the powers conferred under paragraph 1.03 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 and paragraph 1.01 of Handbook of Procedure (Vol I.) , the following amendments are made in the Handbook of Procedures Vol.II. 2. The existing entry in SION A-1875 of the Product Group `Chemical and Allied Products' is amended as under: Exports Imports SION No Export Item Qty S. No. Import Item Qty allowed A-1875 Upgraded Beneficiated Ilmenite (Synthetic Rutile) containing Titanium Dioxide of 90-96% concentration (Specific % concentration to be mentioned) 1 Kg. 1 Furnace Oil 1.068 kg. OR Coal 1.000 kg. 2 Ilmenite Ore containing Titanium Dioxide of 49%-57% concentration (Specific% concentration to be mentioned To be calculated as per the guidelines mentioned in the following note 3 Coke 0.182 kg. Note : I-Specific percentage of Titanium dioxide in export product to be mentioned in export documents. II- Specific percentage of Titanium dioxide in import item 2 to be mentioned in import documentation. III- For the purpose of entitlement of imported raw material, the percentage concentration of export item as well as concentration of import item 2 should be taken. For this the entitlement should be worked out considering 13.6% wastage on the actual net content of Titanium dioxide both in the export product and import product. Eg:- If the export product contains 90% Titanium dioxide [weighted average of all shipments and import item i.e. Ilmenite ore contains 50% Titanium dioxide [weighted average of all bill of entries], entitlement may be worked out based on following formula: Entitlement of import product per kg of export product = 90% * 1.136/50% = 2.045 kgs 3. Effect of this amendment: The standard Input Output Norms (SION) for export product under S No. A 1875 has been reviewed. There is change in the description of the Export and Import items. (Anup Wadhawan) Director General of Foreign Trade Email: dgft@nic.in (Issued from File No. 01/83/71/18/AM-15/DES-IV)