13/2024-Customs : Seeks to amend notification No. 50/2017- Customs dated 30.06.2017, in order to reduce the BCD on imports of meat and edible offal, of ducks, frozen, subject to the prescribed conditions, with effect from 07.03.2024.

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION(i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No. 13/2024-Customs

New Delhi, the $06^{\text{th}}$ March, 2024

G.S.R. .....(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and sub-section (12) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 50/2017-Customs, dated the $30^{\text{th}}$ June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 785(E), dated the $30^{\text{th}}$ June, 2017, namely:-

In the said notification,

(1) in the Table, after S. No. 3AA and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and entries shall be inserted, namely: -

(2) in the Annexure, after condition number 115 and the entries relating thereto, the following condition number and entries shall be inserted, namely: -

• (a) the importer furnishes a certificate to the Deputy Commissioner of Customs or the Assistant Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, from the designated officer in terms of O.M. No. L-110109(3)/1/2016-Trade (E-2625), dated $22^{\text{nd}}$ February, 2024, issued by the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, that the imported goods are meat and edible offal, of ducks, frozen (other than backs of ducks, frozen), satisfying the parameters specified in the Annex to the said O.M.; and
• (b) the importer furnishes to the Deputy Commissioner of Customs or the Assistant Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, -
• • i. a certificate from an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Tourism recommending that the importer is a 3-Star and above operational hotel as per notification issued by Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, as amended, or
• • ii. a valid restricted import authorisation issued under DGFT notification No. 66/2023, dated $06^{\text{th}}$ March, 2024, as amended"; |

2. This notification shall come into force on the $07^{\text{th}}$ day of March, 2024.

[F. No. CBIC-190354/166/2023-TO(TRU-I)]

(Vikram Vijay Wanere) Under Secretary

Note: The principal notification No. 50/2017-Customs, dated the $30^{\text{th}}$ June, 2017 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i), vide number G.S.R. 785(E), dated the $30^{\text{th}}$ June, 2017, and was last amended vide notification No. 10/2024-Customs, dated the $19^{\text{th}}$ February, 2024, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i), vide number G.S.R. 115(E), dated the $19^{\text{th}}$ February, 2024.