Amendment in item description of 'Glufosinate Technical’ covered under HS Code 38089390 of Chapter 38 of Schedule -I (Import Policy) of ITC (HS) 2022.

[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 Bhawan Notification No. 14 /2024-25 New Delhi, Dated: 3 June, 2024

Subject: Amendment in item description of 'Glufosinate Technical’ covered under HS Code 38089390 of Chapter 38 of Schedule -I (Import Policy) of ITC (HS) 2022.

|S.O.|(E): In|exercise|of powers conferred by Section 3|of powers conferred by Section 3|of powers conferred by Section 3|and Section 5 of Foreign|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Trade (Development|||& Regulation) Act, 1992, read with paragraph 1.02 and 2.01 of||||
|the|Foreign|Trade|Policy|2023,<br>as amended<br>from<br>time<br>to<br>time,<br>the<br>Central|||
|Government||hereby|amends||the item description of 'Glufosinate Technical’ under||
|Chapter 38 of the ITC (HS),|||||2022, Schedule -I (Import|Policy), in supersession of|
|Notification No. 58/2023 dated|||||23.01.2024, as under: (changes made are indicated||
|in bold letters):|||||||
||Item||Existing|Existing|||Revised<br>Polic|
||Description|Policy||||(Policy|Condition|
||||||Condition||
|38089390}---||Other|Free||(a) If registered and not|___|(a) If registered and not|
||||||prohibited for import under|prohibited for import||
||||||Insecticides Act, 1968 and|under Insecticides Act,||
||||||ormulations thereof.|1968 and formulations|
|||||||hereof.|
||||||(b) Importof‘Glufosinate<br>echnical’ (Purity—<br>Minimum 95% wiw) [CAS <br>No. 51276-47-2) is<br>Prohibited” for CIF value||b) |mport of<br>‘Glufosinate and its<br> |gaits’ (Purity— Minimum<br>95% w/w) is “Prohibited”<br>lor CIF value below Rs.|
||||||below Rs. 1289/- per Kg.||49g9/- per Kg.|
||||||c) However, importof<br>aibeeraanTechnical’ is<br>“Free” forCIF value ofRs<br>_ 1289/- orabove per Kg|(c) However, importof<br>Glufosinateand its<br>alts’ is<br>‘Free’ for CIF<br>alue of Rs. 1289/- or<br>above per Kg.|
||||||(d) The said policy<br>condition shall be|(d) The said policy<br>condition shall be|
||||||reviewed after a period of||reviewed after a period|
||||||one year.|ofone yearw.e.f. the|
|||||||date of publication of|
|||||||Notification No.|
|||||||58/2023 dated|
|||||||3.01.2024.|

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Effect of the Notification: The item description of ‘Glufosinate Technical’ under ITC (HS) Code 38089390 has been revised. Henceforth, ‘Glufosinate and its salts’ having any technical name, IUPAC name and CAS No. etc. shall be ‘Prohibited’ for import. However, import shall be ‘free’ only if CIF value is Rs. 1289/- or above per Kg.

This issue with the approval of Minister of Commerce & Industry.

oe ail in, lo (Santosh Kumar Sarangi) Director General of Foreign Trade & Ex-officio Addl. Secretary to the Government of India E-mail: dgft@nic.in

[Issued from File No. 01/89/180/16/AM-23/PC-2[A] /E-38206]