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Publishing confidential export-import data may now lead you to jail

The FY23 Budget has proposed to introduce section 135AA in the customs act through the Finance Bill for "protection of data".

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The explanatory memorandum of the Finance Bill, 2022 said the Section 135AA is being inserted in the Customs Act to “protect the import and export data submitted to Customs by importers or exporters in their declarations

Asit Ranjan MishraArup Roychoudhury
The government has proposed to make it a punishable offence with up to six months of imprisonment if details about quantity and value of individual export and import items are published by a person.

The FY23 Budget has proposed to introduce section 135AA in the customs act through the Finance Bill for “protection of data”.

“If a person publishes any information relating to the value or classification or quantity of goods entered for export from India, or import into India, or the details of the exporter or importer of such goods under this Act, unless required so to do under