Capacity building activities are undertaken through regular training of Customs officers and holding of seminars and work shops in collaboration with trade bodies.
(Question 22: Page 117, paragraph 270)
According to the Secretariat's Report, "[t]he re exportation of goods infringing trade marks in an unaltered State is also prohibited." Since "re exportation" involves importation and exportation, the definition of re exportation and transit could overlap. Japan would like India to describe the difference between re exportation and transit. Please also explain what procedures 'in transit' involves.
Reply: It has been rightly observed that "re exportation" involves importation and exportation. Transit is different from re exportation. Transit is defined under Article V of the GATT 1994 and as per this, goods shall be deemed to be in transit across the territory of a contracting party when the passage across such territory is only a portion of a complete journey beginning and terminating beyond the frontier of the contracting party across whose territory the traffic passes. Traffic of this nature is termed "traffic in transit".
Vide Customs notification 51/2010 Customs (NT) dated 30 June 2010 India has excluded transit from the purview of IPR border enforcement.
