Amendment in import policy of biofuels

To be published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-I|, Section-3, Sub-Section (lI) Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry Department of Commerce Directorate General of Foreign Trade

Notification No.2 7/2015-2020 New Delhi, Dated:;,/ August, 2018

Subject: Amendment in import policy of biofuels.

S.O. (E): In exercise of powers conferred by Section 3 of FT (D&R) Act, 1992, read with paragraph 1.02 and 2.01 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020, as amended from time to time, the Central Government hereby amends the import policy of biofuels under Chapter 22, 27 and 38 of ITC (HS), 2017, Schedule — | (Import Policy.

|||Policy||Conditions/Polic|Conditions||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|2207 2000}|Ethyl<br>alcohol and<br>other|| Free|Restricted|| Import|is|
||spirits, denatured, of any|||allowed|only|
||strength.|||for<br>non-fuel||
|||||purposes||
|||||subject|to|
|||||Actual|User|
|||||condition.||
|2710 20 00||Petroleum<br>oils<br>and<br>oils|| Free|Restricted|| Import is||
||obtained from bituminous|||allowed only||
||minerals<br>(other — than|||for non-fuel||
||crude)<br>and<br>preparations|||purposes||
||not<br>elsewhere<br>specified|||subject to||
||or included, containing by|||Actual User||
||weight 70%<br>or more<br>of|||condition.||
||petroleum<br>oils or of oils|||||
||obtained from bituminous|||||
||minerals, these oils being|||||
||the<br>basic constituents<br>of|||||
||the<br>preparations,|||||
||containing<br>biodiesel,|||||
||other than waste oils.|||||
|3826 00 00||Biodiesel<br>and<br>mixtures|| Free|Restricted|| Import is||
||thereof, not containing or|||allowed only||
||containing less than 70 %|||for non-fuel||
||by<br>weight<br>of<br>petroleum|||purposes||
||oils<br>and<br>oils<br>obtained|||subject to||
||from<br>bituminous|||Actual User||
||minerals.|||condition.||
|Effect of the Notification:<br>Import Policy of bio-fuels revised from,'Free' to ‘Restricted’||||||
|and allowed|for non-fuel purpose on Actual user basis as per the Nafional bio-fuel Policy, 4|||||
|June 2018.|,|||q||

q (Alok Vardh aturvedi) Director Ge of Foreign Trade& Ex- officio Addl. Secretary6 the Government of India

(F.No. 01/89/180/01/AM-19/PC-2(A) / e — 11101)