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24.By notification S.O.2905(E) dated 07.11.2014, the Government included another fifteen products in addition to the fifteen products which were mentioned in the notification dated 07.09.2012.

The MeitY issued office memorandum dated 10.03.2017. The necessity for such office memorandum was on account of investigation into large scale import of used MFD in violation of Environment Protection Act and Rules and Foreign Trade Policy. The memorandum mentions about how traders from various parts of India especially Delhi and Kolkata are regularly importing large quantifies of MFDs through Cochin Port and none of the importers produce any documents to Customs Department to prove compliance of the Registration Order, 2012. Further, it was mentioned that printers are covered under Electronics and IT Goods (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Order, http://www.judis.nic.in W.A.Nos.1096 to 1098 of 2021 2012 mandating Indian safety standards for the notified goods and must be registered with BIS before sale in India. It is further stated that since second hand Multifunction printers are registered with BIS nor they have sought permission from MeitY for their import, such imports would be in violation of Compulsory Registration Order, 2012.

“2.Since the Multifunction Devices [MFDs] are basically printers with additional capabilities like Fax, Scan, Photocopy, etc., thus, it is clarified that they are covered under the category of Printers/Plotters notified vide Gazette Notification dated 3rd October 2012. The other provisions of the aforesaid Gazette notification dated 3rd October 2012 would apply as before.”