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The Fazette of Endia
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NEW DELHI , MONDAY , JULY 29 , 1963 / SRAVANA 7 , 1885
MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
PUBLIC NOTICES
IMPORT TRADE CONTROL
New Delhi , the 29th July 1963
SUBJECT :-System of Registration of Agency Agreements for the purpose of issue of Letters of Authority .
No. 93 - ITC ( PN ) /63.-Attention of the trade is invited to Appendix 47 to the I.T.C. Policy Book for the licensing period April 1963- March 1964 and Appendix 9 to the Hand Book of Rules and Procedure , 1961 indicating the procedure for consi- deration of requests for the grant of letters of authority .
2. With a view to eliminate the difficulty of the importers in producing Agency Agreement or the evidence that the indenting house concerned is authorised to accept contracontracts on behalf of his principals as required in terms of para 2 ( b ) of the appendices referred to above , every now and then with every applications for the grant of Letters of Authority and to ensure expeditious disposal of such applications . Indenting Houses / Sole Selling Agents were requested by the licensing authoritles at ports through various Trade Notices to avail of the scheme of registration of Agency Agreement etc , evolved by them . Althrough this scheme is in vogue for some time now, different procedures are being followed at different ports . For the sake of uniformity , it is hereby notified that a Registration Number will be allotted and a Registration Slip will be issued in respect of an Agency Agreement etc. by the licensing authority concerned in favour of Indenting Houses / Sole Selling Agents on an application being made to him alongwith a certificate in duplicate from the foreign principals giving the following particulars:- (1) That the agreement is still valid . Indication as to the date of termina- tion of agency agreement should be given .
(2) Details of the goods for which the agreement is made .
(3 ) That thare authorised to book orders and import the goods on behalf of their customers .
(4 ) That the Agency is valid throughout the Indian Union. If the agency is valid for any particular State or Territory , the details should be fur- nished .
(5) That they are the sole importers or only Sole Agents .
3. Once an Agency Registration Number is allotted by the licensing authority concerned to an Indenting House / Sole Selling Agent , it will be sufficient for the licence holder to quote the Agency Registration Number only at the time of making a request for a letter of authority instead of producing the evidence as required in terms of para 2 ( b ) of the appendices referred to above . Registration Number Issued by one Port authority will be accepted by another port authority provided the origi- nal or a photostat copy of the Agency Registration Slip is furnished with the appli- cation for a letter of authority .
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4. It has also been decided that the following amendments should be made to paras 2 ( b ) and 3 ( b ) of Appendix 9 of the ITC Hand Book of Rules and Procedure , 1961 and appendix 47 to the current ITC Policy Book:-
( 1 ) Para 2 ( b ) should be substituted by the following:
"Where the goods are sought to be imported through an agent , the request for grant of a letter of authoritythority should be accompanied by docu- mentary evidence or Agency Registration Number/ the original or a photostat copy of the Agency Registration slip , issued_by the licensing authority , to show that the licence - holder's agent has an agency agreement with the foreign supplier and is authorised to accept con- tracts on behalf of the foreign suppliers "
(ii ) The words " Indentor / agent " in para 3 ( b ) should be read as " the licence- holder's agent " .
SUBJECT :-Export Promotion Scheme - Amendment to Part II- Annexure I of Appendix 23 of Import Trade Control Current Red -Book .
No. 94 - ITC ( PN ) /63 .-Attention is invited to Appendix 23 , Annexure I-Part II of the Import Trade Control Policy Book for the year April 1963 - March 1964. The following items may be added as item Nos . 26 and 27 after the existing item No. 25 of the sald Annexure :-
I
2
4
3
26 Agar bathies
( i ) Perfumery Compounds (Permissible
6
7
5
20%
IV / I_{3z}
categories only) (ii ) Natural Es- IV/ 127-129
sential Oils
(Permissible
catogorics only)
( iii) Resinoids IV / I * 3 ^ 2 * (a)
( iv) Aromatic Export Pro- motion Au- thorities at Bombay/Cal- cutta/Mad- ras/Ernaku- lam/New Delhi within their respec- tive jurisdic- tions .
(i) Perfumery com- pounds will be al- lowed only upto one fourth of the face value of the licence ; and imports of per- fumery compounds will be allowed only in packs not below Ikg.
V / 22 - 3I
Chemicals (per- missible cate-
gories only) (v) Gum Ben- fV / 49 * (a)(i)
zoin
( ii) Glassine paper will be allowed only uptopto 10 % of the face value of the licence .
V / (4 ^ 2) * (b)
(vi) Agarwood (Kayu Boya wood or aloe- wood or mada- gar.)
(vii) Cuttle fish wings (Nakhla) (viii) Gum Sty-
гах.
(ix) Patchouli V / 3 * I(b)
I * 32(c) / I * V
(iii) Import of any other item, including packing paper , which the Ministry of In ternational Trade may approve, may also be allowed with- in the overall import entitlement .
leaves . (x) White bark (Kenneripetta)
160- IV
(xi) Glassinc pa- per (Please see remarks ) .
Ink Tab-
Pro-
27
Export motion
lets . ( 1) Blue Black
( 1) Methylene Blue Methyl
Authorities at Bombay/ Calcutta
violet
(ii) Violet
( ii ) Methyl vio- let
Madras/ Ernakulam/ New Delhi
(iii) Blue (iv) Green
( iii) Ink Blue ( iv) Malachite (i) 50 %
I- B / III I-B / III
I - B / III (ii) 50 %
I -B / III
I-B/ III
(111) 40% (iv) 35%
Green Diamond
Green
within their respective jurisdictions
(v) Black
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2. The item at Sl . Nos . 20-23 of Part II-Annexure I to AppendixAppendix 23 of the current Import Trade Control Policy Book as introduced in the said Appendix vide Public Notice No. 38 - ITC ( PN ) /63 , dated the 26th April , 1963 are hereby deleted , as these items have been brought into the revised Special Export Promotion Scheme for Chemicals and Allied Products announced by the Ministry of International Trade recently .
3. This amendment will be applicable to exports effected on or after 1st April 1963 .
D. R. SUNDARAM , Chief Controller of Imports & Exports .
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