The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 18] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1965/PHALGUNA 6, 1886
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MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
PUBLIC NOTICE
IMPORT TRADE CONTROL
New Delhi, the 25th February, 1965
SUBJECT:—Import of Cotton seed oil and/or Soybean Oil from U.S.A. under the Agricultural Commodities Agreement signed on 30th September 1964 between the Government of the United States of America and the Gov- ernment of India under Title I of the U.S. Agricultural Trade Develop- ment and Assistance Act, as amended (PL. 480)—Purchase Authorisa- tions No. 39—131 and No. 39—131—OT both dated the 19th October, 1964.
No. 14-ITC(PN)/65.—Attention of the importers is invited to the para 3(d) of the Annexure II to the Public Notice No. 96-ITC(PN)/64, dated the 1st December, 1964 on the above subject,
2. It has been decided to make some modification regarding the. shipment of the remaining 50% of the tonnage which is not required to be moved in U.S.A. Flag Vessels, Para 3(d) of the Annexure II to the above Public Notice will therefore be substituted as paras 3(d) and (e) and will read as under: —
66 THE GAZE I IE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART I-SEC 1](e) Contracts lor the procurement of the Commodity shall be separate and apart from the ocean transportation contracts. The Importer must advise the supplier that at least 50% of the tonnage of the commodity purchased hereunder must be shipped on privately owned United States Flag Commercial Vessels For full instructions in this connec- tion please refer to para 6 of Purchase Authorisation No 39—131 annexed hereto according to which advance approval of charters and bookings must be obtained from the Director, Programme Operations Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Washington D C , 20250 Further procedure will be as below
(I) Ocean Transportation for Consigmnents required to be shipped by U.S. Flag Vessels.—In this case the ocean transportation will be paid initially by the U S designated bank against letters of credit established against ocean transportation purchase authorisation No, 39—131—OT assigned to that bank who will get it reimbursed from the C C C The approval obtained by the supplier for vessel book m# will state the amount of ocean freight differential, if any, which the C C C will lccognise and absorb as existing between the prevailing foreign Hag vessel rate and the US flag vessel rate The amount of such a differential will be reimbursed separately by C C C and will not be included in the dollar amount of reimburse ment for whic h rupees have to be deposited into the U S Disbursing Officer's Account
(n) Ocean transportation, for consignments not required to be shipped on U.S. Hag Vest,eh.—Ocean freight in such transportation will not be reimbursed by the C C C against PA No 39—131—OT and will have to be remitted by the importer through his bank in India for which necessary foreign exchange will be made avail able to the importer The goods not shipped on U S flag vessels should be shipped on Indian vessels to the extent that such Indian vessels are available at competitive and reasonable rates of freight When no Indian vessel sailing from the particular port of exit in the U S A to the desired port of entry in India is available at com petitive rind reasonable rates a certificate may be obtained by the importers/sup p.iers froTi the Indian Shipping Company/Companies operating at the port of exit in the US \ or from the Secretary, Shipping Cooidination Committee, New Delhi If the non-avail ability of Indian Ships at competitive and reasonable rates is estab- lished in this manner importers /suppliers may ship the goods in such non-Indian ships as may not have been declared ineligible bv AID
P SABANAYAGAM,
Chief Controller of Imports and Exports