G/SCM/N/1/IND/2/Suppl.12  
 
5 May 2021  
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Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  Original: English  
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAW S AND REGULATIONS UNDER  
ARTICLE 32.6 OF THE AGREEMENT  
INDIA 
Supplement  
The following communication, dated  and received  on 3 May 2021, is being circulated at the request 
of the delegation of India.  
 
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Pursuant to Article 32.6 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, India hereby 
notifies the amendments to its Countervailing Duty Rules, namely, "Customs Tariff (Identification, 
Assessment and Collection of Countervailin g Duty on Subsidised Articles and for Determination of 
Injury) Amendment Rules, 2021". The amendment rules were notified vide Government of India 's 
Notification No.11/2021 -Customs (N.T) dated 1st February, 2021. Copy of the same is attached.  
The amendment is also available in the public domain and can be accessed at http://www.cbic.gov.in  
at the following weblink:  
https://www.cbic.gov.in/resources//htdocs -cbec/customs/cs -act/notifications/notfns -2021/cs -
nt2021/csnt11 -2021.pdf  
This supplements India's earlier notification .1 
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 [TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION  3, 
SUB-SECTION (i)]  
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA  
MINISTRY OF FINANCE  
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)  
Notification No. 1 1/2021 -Customs (N.T.)  
New Delhi, the 1st February, 2021  
G.S.R. .… (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub -section  (7) of section 9 and 
sub-section  (2) of section 9B of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), the Central Government 
hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment 
and Collection of Countervailing Duty on Subsidized Articles and for Determination of Injury ) Rules,  
1995, namely: - 
1. Short title and commencement. — (1) These rules may be called the Customs Tariff (Identification, 
Assessment and Collection of Countervailing Duty on Subsidized Articles and for Determination of 
Injury ) Amendment Rules, 2021.  
(2) Save as otherwise provided in these rules , they shall come into force on the 2nd February,  2021.  
2. In the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Countervailing Duty on  
Subsidized Articles  and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, - 
(a) in rule 2, in clause (b), after the word "thereof", the words ', the term "domestic industry" 
may be interpreted as referring to the rest of the producers ' shall be inserted;  
(b) in ru le 6, in sub -rule (4), for the words "Collector of Customs", the words "Principal 
Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be," shall be 
substituted;  
(c) in rule 24, - 
(i) with effect from the 1st day of July, 2021, in sub -rule ( 4), the following proviso shall be 
inserted, namely: - 
"Provided that notwithstanding anything contained in rule 19, such review shall be 
completed at least three months prior to expiry of the countervailing duty under review.";  
(ii) for sub -rule (5), the following sub -rule shall be substituted, namely - 
"(5) Subject to sub -rule (4), the provisions of rules 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,18,19,20,21 and 22 
shall apply mutatis mutandis in case of review.";  
(d) in rule 26, after sub -rule (4), the following sub -rule sha ll be inserted, namely: - 
"(4A) The Central Government may, on recommendation of the designated authority, resort 
to provisional assessment of the imports of the article alleged to be circumventing a 
countervailing duty in force and may ask a guarantee fro m the importer, till the time a decision 
under sub -rule (3) of rule 27 is taken by the Central Government.";  G/SCM/N/1/IND/2/Suppl.12  
 
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 (e) with effect from the 1st day of July, 2021, in rule 28, in sub -rule (2), the following proviso 
shall be inserted, namely: - 
"Provided that such  review shall be completed at least three months prior to expiry of the duty 
under review."  
[F.No.334/02/2021 -TRU] 
(Rajeev Ranjan)  
Under Secretary to the Government of India  
Note: - The principal rules were published vide notification number 1/1995 -Customs (N.T), dated the 
1st day of January, 1995, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub -section (i), 
vide number G.S.R. 2(E), dated the 1st day of January, 1995 and were last amended vide notification 
number 10/2020 -Customs (N.T), dated the 2nd February, 2020, vide number G.S.R. 7 4(E), dated 
the 2nd February, 2020.  
 
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