- HC : Notification prescribing recovery of Clean-Environment-Cess in lieu of Statutory Procedure intra-vires; Upholds validity
- Tribunal : PepsiCo’s ‘Nimbooz’, ‘Slice’ and ‘Tropicana’ taxable as fruit drinks at 4%/5.5% KVAT, not 14%/14.5%
- SC : ‘Sharbat’ deriving identity from fruit content, is fruit drink; Applies common-parlance, essential-character test
- HC : Test report not invalid merely because samples tested in two labs; Upholds DRI seizure
- SC : Copy of SC-judgment quashing demand on 'Naphtha' predominantly used for fertilizer-production despite partial non-fertilizer use
DGFT allows import of 1,50,000 MT of pulses from Mozambique through 5 ports including Mumbai, Tuticorin, Chennai, Kolkata, and Hazira subject to production of "Certificate of Origin" certified by the authorized signatories in the ICM (lnstituto de Cereasi de Mocambique)
Trade Notice No. 9/2018-19 dated May 16, 2018
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