Amendment in Import Policy Condition under Chapter 39 of ITC (HS), 2022, Schedule – I (Import 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 Directorate General of Foreign Trade Vanijya Bhavan

Notification No. 32 /2015-2020 New Delhi, Dated: 14'" September, 2022

Subject: Amendment in Import Policy Condition under Chapter 39 of ITC (HS), 2022, Schedule — I (Import Policy).

S.O. (E): In exercise of powers conferred by Section 3 read with Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (as amended from time to time) read with paragraph 1.02 and 2.01 of the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), 2015-2020, the Central Government hereby amends the Import Policy and revises the Condition No.2 of Chapter 39 of ITC (HS), 2022, Schedule — I (Import Policy) as under:

|HS Code|[Item||Existing||Existing Policy||Existing Policy||Existing Policy||Revised|[Revised Policy|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Description||Import|(Condition||||Import|(Condition|
||||Police|||||Polic||
|39076110|---|PET|flakeProhibited|[The|import|of|PET\Prohibited||[The<br>import<br>of PET|
|39076930|\(chip)|||ottle|||||bottle<br>waste/scrap|
|||||aste/scrap/ PET|||||made from used PET|
|||||flakes|made from||used||ottles<br>etc is|
|||||PET|bottles||etcis||Prohibited”<br>as<br>pe|
|||||“Prohibited”||as||pe|M<br>No.<br>23-4/2009|
|||||OM|No.<br>23-4/2009||||HSMD<br>dated<br>30-08|
|||||ISMD<br>dated||30-08|||2016<br>and<br>O.M.|
|||||O16)|—and||—--O°M.||0.23/66/2019-HSM|
|||||0.23/66/2019-HSM|||||dated<br>03/10/2019<br>of|
|||||dated|03/10/2019|||o|Ministry<br>of|
|||||Ministry||||fe)|Environment,<br>Forest|
|||||Environment,||Fores|||and<br>Climate Change|
|||||and Climate Change.|||||(MoEF&CC)|
||||||||||However,<br>impo|
||||||||||ofPET<br>Flakes<br>has|
||||||||||been permitted unde|
||||||||||an authorisation fro|
||||||||||DGFT and subject to|
||||||||||Oc<br>fro|
||||||||||oEF&CC,<br>i|
||||||||||accordance with thei|
||||||||||O.M.<br>No.|
||||||||||23/66/2019-HSMD|
||||||||||dated<br>23.08.2022,|
||||||||||subject<br>to<br>following|
||||||||||conditions<br>:|

i. A unit should be eligible fo import only if if has used domestic waste to the extent at least 70% of the capacity in the previous year. (e.g. productio of 2021-22 to be considered _ fo 2022-23 permissions). ii. The imports for the year 2022-23 should be restricted to 20% of the productio in the year 2021 22 and thereafter, 15% of the actual capacity utilized in the preceding year. lil. An additional import up to 10% may be considered against exports of the products. iv. Units would be eligible fo import after at least one year of production.

z, Effect of the Notification:

Import of PET Flakes has been permitted subject to NOC from MoEF&CC and an authorisation from DGFT.

This issues with the approval of Minister of Commerce and Industry. ‘, "re\v (Santosh Kumar Sarangi) Director General of Foreign Trade Ex- officio Addl. Secretary to the Gol E-mail: dgft@nic.in

(Issued from F. No. 01/89/180/M-32/AM-03/PC-2 (A)/E-1554)