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To import into India

To import into India, with its grammatical varia-tions and cognate expressions, means to bring into India from a place outside India and includes the bringing into any port or airport or place in India of a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance intended to be taken out of India without being removed from the vessel, aircraft, vehicle or any other conveyance in which it is being carried. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xxv)]...


Import

Import, in relation to any technology, means the bringing into India of, such technology from a place outside India. [Research and Development Cess Act, 1986, s. 2 (d)]Means bringing into any place within the territories to which this Act extends from a place outside those territories. [Insecticides Act, 1968 (46 of 1968), s. 3 (d)]Means bringing into India. [Aircraft Act, 1934 (22 of 1934), s. 2 (3)]Means to bring into India from a place outside India by land, sea or air. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (f)]With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means bringing into India from a place outside India. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (23)]Means bringing into India from out of India, Gramophone Company of India Ltd. v. Birendra Bahadur Pandey, AIR 1984 SC 667: (1984) 2 SCR 664: (1984) 2 SCC 534. (Copyright Act, 1957, ss. 51, 53)In a sense, import may be said to be complete for certain purposes say, sales tax purposes on their clearance after assessment of du...


Import into and export out of

Import into and export out of, the words 'import into' and 'export out of' in this context do not refer to the article or commodity imported or exported. The reference to 'the goods' and to 'the territory of India' make it clear that the words 'export out of' and 'import into' mean the export out of the country and importation into the country respectively, State of Travancore-Cochin v. Shanmugha Vilas Cashewnut Factory, AIR 1953 SC 333: (1954) SCR 53. [Constitution of India, Art. 286 (1)(b)]...


Countervailing duty

Countervailing duty, is imposed when excisable articles are imported into the State, in order to counter-balance the excise duty, which is leviable on similar goods if manufactured within the State. So far as countervailing duty is concerned, the incidence of the impost is on the import of the excisable articles, i.e. at the time of entry into the State, S.K. Pattanaik v. State of Orissa, AIR 2000 SC 612 (613): (2000) 1 SCC 413. [Bihar and Orissa Excise Act, (2 of 1915), s. 27]Under s. 2A of the Tariff Act any article which is imported into India shall be liable to customs duty equal to the excise duty for the time being leviable on a like article if produced or manufactured in India. Such customs duty in addition to the duty under the Tariff Act is known as countervailing duty, Dunlop India Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1977 SC 597 (599): (1976) 2 SCC 241. [Indian Tariff Act, 1934, s. 2A]. See also State of Uttar Pradesh v. Delhi Cloth Mills, (1991) 4 SCC 454....


Export and Import

Export and Import, means, respectively, export from or import into India or any other country of goods or services, or both. [Export-Import Bank of India Act, 1981 (28 of 1981), s. 2(d); See also Spices Board Act, 1986 (10 of 1986), s. 2(g)]...


Animal article

Animal article, 'animal article' means an article made from any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal has been used, and ivory imported into India and an article made there form. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, s. 2(2)]...


Seeds

Seeds, pulses are clearly seeds of agricultural or horticultural crops, AIR 1992 Bom 79 (81). [Plants, Fruits and Seeds (Regulation of Import into India) Order 1989, Cl. 2(1)]...


Smuggling

Smuggling, the offence of importing prohibited Articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of Articles into consumption without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue.The crime of importing or exporting illegal articles or articles on which duties have not been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1394.Smuggling is restrained by the statutes relating to the Customs, and in particular by the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876.In relation to any goods, means any act or omission which will render such goods liable to confiscation under s. 111 or s. 113. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (39)]The general concept of smuggling contains two elements: one, the bringing into India of goods the import of which is prohibited; and two, the bringing, into the country's trade stream, of goods the import of which is permitted without paying the customs duties with which they are chargeable. The second e...


To import

To import, petroleum means to bring it into India by land, sea or air, otherwise than during the course of transport. [Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934), s. 2 (e)]With its grammatical variations and cognate ex-pressions means to bring into India. [Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940), s. 3 (g)]...


Imported goods

Imported goods, means any goods brought into India from a place outside India but does not include goods which have been cleared for home consumption. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (25)]...


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