Amendment in export policy of Muli Bamboo and export policy for bainboo products.

(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 Directroate General fo Foreign Trade Udyog Bhawan Notification No {|/2015-2020 New Delhi, Dated : 23 June, 2017

Subject: Amendment in export policy of Muli Bamboo and export policy for bainboo products.

S.0.(E) In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 3 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992), as amended, read with Para 1.02 of the Fore ‘gn Trade Policy, 2015-20, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments, with im nediate effect, in toChaptertime : 14 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification of Export & Import Items, as an ended from time A. The existing entries against SI. No. 90, Chapter 14 of Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) Classification, shall be substituted as follows:

|Sl. <br>No.|||TariffItem<br>HSCode||Item<br>Description|Export<br>Polic|NatureofRestriction|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||14011000 | Tons|MuliBamboo| <br>(melocanna<br>bacifera)|||Free till<br>31.03.2019|1. All the Muli Bamboo cbtained from legal<br> | Sources are permitted for export subject to<br>proper<br>documentatior/Certificate<br>of|
|||||||Origin(CoO) and complience of transit rule|
|||||||of concerned State Forest Department for|
|||||||transportation.|
|||||||2. TheCoO shall be issued by the concerned|
|||||||State Forest Department from where Muli|
|||||||Bamboo has been procured by<br>the exporter.|
||B.|A newentry <br>as follows:-|at SI. No.

n.|
|||||||2. TheCoO shall be issued by the concerned|
|||||||State Forest Department from where Muli|
|||||||Bamboo has been procured by<br>the exporter.|
||B.|A newentry <br>as follows:-|at SI. No. 90B in Chapter 14 ofSchedule 2 ofITC(HS) Classifica ion, shall be added||||
|Sl.|||TariffItem|Unit|Item||NatureofRestriction|
|||||Description|Polic||
|90B||}|1401 1000 ||Either <br>Tons<br>or<br>selene<br>Meter<br>oF||Bamboo<br>products made<br>from bamboo<br>obtained from<br>legal source;<br>except<br>bamboo|Free|1. All the bamboo procucts made from<br>bamboo obtained from I2gal sources are<br>permitted<br>for export<br>subject<br>to<br>proper<br>documentation/Certificate ofOrigin (CoO)<br>proving that the bamboo used for making<br>products has been obtaned<br>from<br>legal<br>sources.|
||||number| charcoal,||||
|||||bamboo pulp<br>and<br>unprocessed||2.<br>The CoO<br>shall<br>be<br>issued<br>by<br>the<br>concerned<br>State<br>Forest<br>Department/<br>Agriculture<br>Department<br>from<br>where|
|||||bamboo<br>shoots||bamboo<br>has<br>been<br>prccured<br>by<br>the<br>purchaser of making handicrafts/machine|
|||||||madeproducts.|

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Effect of this notification:

Export of Muli Bamboo till 31.03.2019 and bamboo products (except bamboo charcoal, bamboo pulp and unprocessed bamboo shoots) mace from bamboo obtained from legal sources has been permitted.

Director (A.K. Bhalla) General of Forei gn Trade E-mail: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from F.No. 01/91/162/59/AM16/Export Cell)