N 38/2017

{To be published in the Gazette of India Extra Ordinary Part-ll, Section-3, £ ub section (ii)}

Government of India Ministry of Commerce and Industry Department of Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade Udyog Bhawan

NOTIFICATION No.38/2015-2020 New Delhi, Dated: I) February, 2017

Subject:- Amendment in the list of Military Stores requiring NOC for export put poses

S.0.(E) In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 read with Section 3(2) of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992, as amended, read with Para 1.02 ard Para 2.01 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020, as amended from time to time, the Central (sovernment hereby makes the following amendment in the Export Licensing Note of Table A of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items with immediate effect:

1. Category MS 007 in the Export Licensing Note of Table A of Sch2dule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items stands substituted as follows:“MS007: Military Ground vehicles and components specially designed or modified for military use including:

   • a) Tanks and other military armed vehicles and military vehicles fitted with mountings for arms or equipment for mine laying or the launching of munitic ns.

   • b) Armoured vehicles.

   • c) Amphibious and deep water fording vehicles.

   • d) Recovery vehicles and vehicles for towing or transporting ammunition or weapon systems and associated load handling equipment.

   • e) Mine-protected vehicles.

Note: MS007 does not include soft skinned vehicles i.e. the vehicles which are neither armoured nor intended to be modified as an armoured vehicle in fu:ure”

2. Effect of this notification:

This notification seeks to amend Category MS 007 in the Export Licensin;; Note of Table A of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items ther2by excluding ‘Soft Skinned Vehicles’ from the purview of the list of Military Stores requiring NOC from Department of Defence Production for export purposes. |, — Ajay Kumar Bhalla Director Gene-al of Foreign Trade E-mail: dgft@nic.in

[Issued from File No. 01/91/171/73/AM14/EC.