Amendments under Para 2.92 and Annexure-V of Appendix-2A of HBP 2023 under India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (Ind-Aus ECTA)

[To Be Published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part-I, Section-I]

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

Public Notice No. 21 / 2023 New Delhi, Dated the 10" July 2023

Subject: Amendments under Para 2.92 and Annexure-V of Appendix-2A of HBP 2023 under India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (Ind-Aus ECTA) -reg

S.O. (E): In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 1.03 and 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023, as amended from time to time, and in continuation to Public Notice No. 46/201520 dated 28.12.2022, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade hereby amends Para 2.92 and Appendix-2A of the Handbook of Procedure 2023 for the following items mentioned under Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) under India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (Ind-Aus ECTA), in-syne with the Ministry of Finance(Department of Revenue) Notification No. 38/2023-Customs dated 23" May, 2023 as follows

||Item Description under Ind-|Item Description under Ind-|[In Quota rate|[TRQ|Quantity|Calendar Year|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||AusECTA||(%)|2023|onwards||
|S70T0020|||||||
|52010024 <br>52010025|(Cotton<br>of minimum<br> |staplelength|28 mm|0% dut<br>we||51.000MTs<br>i|MTs<br>5|

2. Accordingly, TRQ of cotton under the India-Aus ECTA shall be considered for ITC(HS) codes 52010024 and 52010025 substituting the earlier ITC(HS) code 52010020.

Effect of this Public Notice: ITC(HS) codes for Cotton under India-Aus ECTA TRQ has been revised in-syne with Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) Notification no. 38/2023Customs dated 23" May 2023.

Rae (Santosh Kumar Sarangi) Director General of Foreign Trade & Ex- officio Addl. Secretary to the Government of India Email: dgft@nic.in

[Issued from File No. 01/93/180/05/AM-22/PC-2(B)/Part-I/E-35577|