Export Processing Zone (EPZ) scheme

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..... provide an internationally competitive duty free environment for export production at low costs. The basic objectives of EPZs are to enhance foreign exchange earnings, develop export-oriented industries and to generate employment opportunities. The first Zone was set up at Kandla (Gujarat) in 1965, followed by SEEPZ, Mumbai in 1972. Thereafter, four more Zones were set up at NOIDA (UP), FALTA (We .....

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..... re also available in the service centers attached to each Zone. 3. The Export Import Policy provisions for Export Processing Zones are the same as applicable to EOUs. Thus, the provisions of EXIM Policy regarding importability of goods, DTA sale, clearance of samples, sub-contracting, inter-unit transfer, repairs, re-conditioning and re-engineering, sale of unutilized material, debonding et .....

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..... cover almost all categories of goods required in connection with the production activity for export include capital goods, raw materials, components, packing, consumables, spares etc. The relevant notifications are as under:- (i) 133/94-Cus, dated 22.6.1994 for allowing duty free import of specified goods to the units located in the Export Processing Zone; (ii) 58/2000-Cus, dated 8.5.2000 .....

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