Livestock products must have clearance or NOC of Animal Quarantine and Certification Service-WR, Navi Mumbai - Customs - 115/2010

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (IMPORT) JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CUSTOMS HOUSE, NHAVA SHEVA TALUKA URAN, DIST RAIGAD, MAHARASHTRA F. No. S/22-Gen- 302/2010 AM(I) JNCH. Date: 12.11.2010 PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 115/2010 Livestock products must have clearance or NOC of Animal Quarantine and Certification Service-WR, Navi Mumbai. The Quarantine Officer, Navi Mumbai vide letter No. 5-2/10-AQ (NM)/184, dtd. 13.10.2010 informed this office that some livestock products including horn, leather, hide, skin, wool, hair, animal feed (including aquatic feed and products) are entering into the country through Mumbai Airport, Seaports and ICDs of Western Region without the clearance/NOC of Animal Quarantine Certification Service (WR), Navi Mumbai. It was requested that directions be issued to field authorities to refer all the consignments of Livestock Products to their Department. 2. Accordingly, directions were issued vide this office F.No. S/22-Gen-283/2010-AM(I) dated 25.10.2010 to ensure that all the consignment of livestock products are referred for Animal Quarantine Clearance/NOC to Animal Quarantine Certificate Service, Navi Mumbai before clearance. Subsequently representations were received from the trade that all livestock products do not require sanitary import permit/NOC from the Animal Quararntine Certification Service. 3. Accordingly the issue was examined. Your attention is invited to Notification No.S O.655(E) dated 07.072001 issued by the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi which restricts the Import of all live-stock products, including meat and meat products of all kinds; egg and egg powder; milk and milk products; bovine, ovine and caprine embryos, ova or semen; pet food products of animal origin. The same were allowed to be imported only against a Sanitary Import Permit issued by the concerned ministry. Accordingly CBEC issued Circular No. 43/2001 -Cus dated 06.08.2001 communicating the same. 3.1 The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi vide Notification No. S.O.794(E) dated 28.03.2008 has amended Notification No. S.O. 655(E) dated 07.07.2001 providing import of certain category of items without Sanitary Import Permit but with NOC from Office incharge of the Animal Quarantine Certification Services stations (as mentioned in (Annexure A) and import of certain category of items without Sanitary Import Permit or NOC from concerned Quarantine authorities.(as mentioned in Annexure-B) In addition, the following items have been included in paragraph (I) of the notification No. S.O. 655(E) dt. 7.7.2001as sub para (vi),(vii), (viii) (ix). vi) pig, hog, boor bristles and hair, badge hair, brush making hair , bones, horn cores, whale bone hair, horns, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared(but not cut to shape)powder, and waste of these products: vii) raw skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not trimmed edges)and down: viii) raw hides and skins of bovine(including buffalo) or equine animals, sheep or lamb, other raw skins (skins of goats, swine), fresh or salted, dried, limed, pickled, or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared, whether or not de-haired or split with wool on or split and ix) raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers use) 4. All Importers, Exporters, CHAs and members of the trade are requested to take note of the above and directed to follow the provisions of Notification No. SO 655(E) dated 7.7.2001 as amended by S.O.794(E) dated 28.03.2008 issued by the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi, scruplously. Sd/- (MALA SRIVASTAVA) COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (IMPORT), JNCH, NHAVA SHEVA. Annexure A The Sanitary Import Permit will not be required in case of import of the livestock products indicated below : (i) horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material. (ii) Coral and similar materials, un-worked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked, shells of molluses, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle bone, un-worked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof (iii) medicaments (bovine albumin and drug of animal origin) and diagnostics (containing blood or serum fractions for in vitro application) (iv) gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface worked or coloured and gelatin derivatives, isinglass, other glues of animal origin ; excluding casein glues. (v) tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared,; (vi) tanned or crust hides and skins of sheep or lamb without wool on, whether or not split, but not further prepared ; tanned or crust hides and skins of other animals, without wool or hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared (of goat, swine, reptile etc.,) (vii) leather further prepared after tanning or crusting including parchment dressed leather, of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals without hair-on, whether or not split; leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment dressed leather of sheep or lamb without wool on, whether or not split, leather further prepared after tanning or crusting including parchment dressed leather of other animals, without wool or hair on, whether or not split (of goat, swine, reptile etc.,) (viii) chamois (including combination chamois) leather; patent leather and patent laminated leather; metalised leather (ix) composition of leather with a basis of leather or leather fiber, in slabs, sheets or strips, whether or not in rolls, parings and other waste of leather or of composition leather, not suitable for manufacture of leather articles, leather dust powder and flour (x) tanned or dressed furskins (including head, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings) unassembled, or assembled (with or without the addition of other materials) and (xi) wool not carded or combed, fine or coarse animal hair not carded or combed, waste or wool or of fine or coarse animal hair including yarn waste excluding garneted stock. The import of these livestock products will, however, be regulated against the production of No Objection Certificate from the Officer in-charge of the Animal Quarantine and Certification Services Stations located at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata or any other veterinary officer duly authorized by the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries after inspection of the goods. Annexure B The import of livestock products indicated below neither Sanitary Import Permit nor no objection certificate of the concerned quarantine Officer will be required : (i) saddlery and harness of any animal of any material, trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, brief cases, sachet, pouches, hand bags etc., (ii) articles of apparel and clothing accessories of leatherites, of leather or of composition leather, articles of leather or of composition leather of a kind in machinery or mechanical appliances or for other technical uses (iii) other articles of leather or of composition leather (straps, welt, covers), articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other articles of furskin (iv) articles of gut of gold beaters skin, of bladders, of tendons, articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other articles of furskin, artificial fur and articles thereof, and (v) garneted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed (including combed wool in fragments), yarn of carded wool not put up for retail sale, yarn of combed wool not put up for retail sale, yarn of fine animal hair ( carded or combed) not put-up for retail sale, yarn of wool or of fine animal hair put up for retails sale, yarn of coarse animal hair or of horse hair (including grimped horsehair yarn whether or not put up for retail sale), woven fabrics of carded wool or carded fine animal hair, woven fabrics of combed wool or carded fine animal fair, woven fabrics of coarse animal hair, or of horse hair.