STANDING COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE INVITES SUGGESTIONS ON FOREIGN TRADE (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) AMENDMENT BILL, 2009

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..... ill, 2009, introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 25th November, 2009, has been referred to the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce, with Shri Shanta Kumar, Member, Rajya Sabha, as its Chairman, for examination and report. The Bill seeks to amend the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 with a view, interalia, to:- i) Provide a statutory provision f .....

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..... the system of levying and realising fiscal penalties; vii) Empower Customs and Central Excise Settlement Commission for settlement of customs and excise duty and interest dues; viii) Broaden the scope of word "licence" defined in the Act ; ix) Provide a provision for review of all decisions of subordinate officers by Director General of Foreign Trade. The Committee has decided to invit .....

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..... the Committee is presented to Parliament, violation of which would constitute a breach of privilege of the Committee. The Bill was published in the Gazette in India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 2, dated the 25th November, 2009. Its copies can be had on written request to the above-mentioned Officer or can be downloaded from the official web-site of the Rajya Sabha (http://rajyasabha.nic.in/) .....

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