The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 57] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 39, 1964/VAISAKHA 9, 1886
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation
MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
PUBLIC NOTICE
IMPORT TRADE CONTROL
New Delhi, the 29th April, 1064
SUBJECT—Import policy for Newsprint—White printing paper (excluding laid mark- ed paper which contains mechanical wood pulp amounting to not less than 70% of the fibre contents)—S. No. 44/V—for the year April, 1964 March, 1965.
No. 35-ITC(PN)/64.—Attention of the actual users of newsprint is invited to Public Notice No. 28-ITC(PN)/64, dated the 2nd April, 1964, issued by the Ministry of International Trade, in which the import policy for newsprint for 1964-65 was announced.
2. On a review of the position, it has been decided that Note (1) in para, 3 (A), para. 3(B) and para. 4 of Annexure I of the Public Notice referred to above will be revised as follows : —
Note (1) in para. 3(A);
Where a newspaper/periodical commenced publication after the years men- tioned in (i) and (ill) above, or where the page area, average number of pages and average circulation of a newspaper/periodical were revised subsequently, the page area, average number of pages and average circulation to be taken into account will be those on the basis of which a quota was allotted to the newspaper/ periodical concerned in 1963-64; but the 20% increase allowed in terms of pub- lic Notice No. 132-ITC(PN)/63, dated the 16th October, 1963, to daily newspapers (includlng their Sunday editions) with average circulation between 10,000 and 50,000 copies will be taken into account as follows: —
(a) upto full extent of the additional circulation permitted, or actually achieved, whichever is less, in October '63—March '64, in the case of daily newspapers (including their Sunday editions) which had a circulation above 10.000 and upto 25,000 copies in 1961-62; or
1018 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART I-SEC. 1) Para. 3(B): On the entitlement worked out, In accordance with (A) above, the following cut will be imposed: — Annual entitlement of newspaper/periodical.More than 1,000 m. tonnes. 8%, subject to marginal adjiwtm"nt".
Para. 4:
Import licences or authorisations for the entitlement worked out In accord- ance with remark 3 above will be issued In the following manner: —
Quantity of imported new iprlnt Qty. to be allowed in imported newsprint
To be licensed from 'free' re-
source*
Qty. to be
allowed in
indigenous
newspriJit
manufactured
by Nepa Mills
To be authorii-
ed from/licen-
sed ngrnnit
•i u
ports
6 i %
3 4
5
STANDARD
NEWSPRINT
Total entitlement
IOO%
100%
N il
(a) Below ioo
—
Nil metric tonnes.
(b) ioo metric
s of reels.
In cast of user
30%
tonriee or abovi
i ?o%
30%
70%
fyntitlemtnt
Vidt Cot. 2
;i) ioo m.
1
tonncl or above.
I O0%
[h) Below
(
c
ioo roctri tonnes.
In case of usen of sheets.
GLAZED NEWSPRINT
100%
N il
•ioo%
ioo%
Nil Nil
•Subject to such quantity as the Registrar of Newspapers for India may de-
termine being licensed against canalised imports.
Notes: —
1. Users of sheets having entitlement of 50 metric tonnes, or above will b" given licences for reels for 50% of their requirements. They will have the option to have licences for reels for their full requirement.
2. Standard newsprint licensed from free resources will have to be Imported against contracts entered into with specific suppliers In the Scandinavian countries and Canada.
3. Glazed newsprint will be allotted only to those newspapers and periodicals which had been getting licences for It regularly in the past,
4. All allotments will be subject to marginal adjustments.