Sub :   Export of products under DEPB scheme, manufactured and / or exported in terms of Clause (b) of sub Rule (1) of Rules 12 and 13 of Central Excise Rule 1944

 

Vide general condition at Sr. Nos.1 (e & f) incorporated in schedule of DEPB rates, it had been provided that the rates of DEPB shall not be applicable to export of commodity or product if such commodity or product is :

 

a.      Manufactured and / or exported in terms of clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of Rule 12 of the Central Rules, 1944;

b.      Manufactured and / or exported in terms of clause (b) of sub-rule (1) of Rule 13 of the Central Rules, 1944;

 

It appears that the above condition had been incorporated on the grounds that similar condition appears in Duty Drawback Rules at sr.No.3 (xiii).

The main grounds for disallowing Duty Drawback on the export goods manufactured in terms of Rule 12 (1)(b) and 13 (1)(b) of Central Excise Rules 1944, were s under :

 

a.                  The excise duty on input material is not paid or rebate is claimed at the input stage itself.

b.                  Since the goods have been supplied by indigenous manufacturer, there is no insistence of custom duty also.

 

However, this condition was relaxed vide CBEC Circular Nos.98/2000 dated 29.11.2000 and 3/2001 dated 16.1.2001 in respect of items for which All Industry Duty Drawback rates are fixed.  This was due to the reason that while fixing All Industry Duty Drawback rates, average import content in country is taken into account as against the actual import content in manufacturing for fixing the Brand Rates.

 

In terms of para 4.37 of Hand Book of Procedures duty credit under DEPB scheme is calculated by taking into account the deemed import condition of export product as per SION and basic custom duty payable on such deemed import.  Hence the scheme has a distinctive difference with Duty Drawback scheme for rebate of custom duty.

In view of above, the condition at para 1 (e) & (f) appearing at general condition for DEPB rates have been withdrawn vide PN No.6/2002 dated 12/04/2002 .

 

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