Amendment in para 4A.2.1 of FTP (RE-2012) / 2009-14 regarding Export of Cut & Polished Diamonds sent abroad for Certification/ Grading & re-import. - 11(RE-2012) /2009-2014 - Foreign Trade Policy

(To be published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-II, Section - 3, Sub-Section ii) Government of India Ministry of Commerce Industry Department of Commerce Udyog Bhawan Notification No. 11(RE-2012) /2009-2014 New Delhi, Dated 22nd August, 2012 Subject: Amendment in para 4A.2.1 of FTP (RE-2012) / 2009-14 regarding Export of Cut Polished Diamonds sent abroad for Certification/ Grading re-import. S.O (E) In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development Regulation) Act, 1992 , as amended, read with paragraph 1.3 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government hereby amends paragraph 4A.2.1 in Chapter 4 of Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014 (RE 2012) to include 5 additional laboratories to the list of authorised laboratories. 2. Under para 4A.2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy dealing with Export of Cut Polished Diamonds for Certification/ Grading Re-import following five additional authorized laboratories for certification/ grading of diamonds of 0.25 carat and above are added after Serial No. (x): (xi) GIA Hong Kong Laboratory Ltd., Hong Kong; (xii) Gemological Research (Thailand) Co. Ltd., Bangkok; (xiii) GIA Education and Laboratory (Pvt) Ltd., Johannesburg; (xiv) GIA Education and Laboratory, Goborone (Botswana); (xv) Forever mark NV, Antwerp, Belgium 3. Effect of the Notification: To the existing authorised laboratories, five additional laboratories are added for purpose of certification/grading of diamonds of 0.25 carrots above. Sd/- (Anup K. Pujari) Director General of Foreign Trade E-mail: dgft@nic.in (Issued from File No.01/94/180/409/AM12/PC-4)