Amends 17 Notifications - 58/95 - Customs -Tariff

Amends 17 Notifications Notification No. 58/95-Cus. Dated 16-3-1995 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby directs that each of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) specified in column (2) of the Table hereto annexed, shall be amended or further amended, as the case may be, in the manner specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table. TABLE S. No. Notificiation No. and date Amendment (1) (2) (3) 1. 210/63-Customs, dated the 7th September, 1963 In the said notification, for the words, figures and brackets "Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975)", the words, figures and brackets "Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the second mentioned Act" shall be substituted. 2. 46/85-Customs, dated the 28th February, 1985 In the Table annexed to the said notification, against Sl. No. 2, in column (2), for the word "Horological", the word "Leaded" shall be substituted. 3. 123/85-Customs, dated the 11th April, 1985. In the said notification, in condition (a) and (b), the words, brackets, letters and figures "and those already imported under the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 78/84-Customs, dated the 9th March, 1984, taken together" at both the places where they occur shall be omitted. 4. 379/86-Customs, dated the 3rd July, 1986 In the said notification, - (i) in the opening portion, for the words and letters "consigned by an organization listed in Table 'A' below and imported into India by an organization listed in Table 'B' below", the words "imported into India" shall be substituted; (ii) for the portion beginning with words "Customs Tariff Act, subject to" and ending with the words "identification before re-export.", the words "Customs Tariff Act.", shall be substituted; (iii) TABLEs 'A' and 'B' and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted. 5. 85/87-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1987 In the Table annexed to the said notification, (i) against S. Nos. 1 and 1A, in column (5), for the entry, at both the places where it occurs, the entry "15% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (ii) against S. Nos. 2 and 3, in column (5), for the entry, at both the places where it occurs, the entry "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 6. 123/87-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1987 In the said notification, in the opening portion, for the words "non-conventional forms of energy", the words "non-conventional forms of energy or silicon ingots/wafers used in the manufacture of solar cells or solar cells or Photovoltaic modules" shall be substituted. 7. 65/88-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1988 In the said notification, - (i) in the Table, Serial Nos. 91 and 116 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (ii) after the Table, the following explanation shall be added, namely :- " Explanation :- For the purpose of this notification, the goods mentioned in the Table above shall not include Foley Balloon Catheters."; (iii) in the first proviso, - (a) for the words "component parts", the words "parts" shall be substituted; (b) for the words "said goods", the following shall be substituted, namely :-"said goods, subject to the following conditions, namely :- The importer furnishes, at the time of importation of the said parts, to the Assistant Collector of Customs, an undertaking to the effect that - (a) the said parts shall be used for the purpose specified above; (b) the importer shall within three months or such extended period as the Assistant Collector of Customs may specify in this behalf, produce a certificate from the Assistant Collector of Central Excise in whose jurisdiction the factory manufacturing the said goods is situated, to the effect that the said parts have been used in the manufacture of the said goods; (c) the importer shall pay, on demand, in the event of his failure to comply with conditions (a) and (b) above, an amount equal to the difference between the duty leviable on such quantity of the said parts but for the exemption contained herein and that already paid at the time of importation:"; (iv) in the second proviso, the brackets and words "(other than populated printed circuit Boards and Ball Bearings)" shall be omitted. 8. 229/88-Customs, dated the 1st August, 1988. In the said notification,(i) to condition (a), the following proviso shall be added, namely :- "Provided that in the case of an Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Science or a Regional Engineering College, the goods are covered by a Pass Book issued by the Head of the institution;"; (ii) to condition (d), the following proviso shall be added, namely :- "Provided that in the case of Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Science or a Regional Engineering College, the Head of the institution certifies in the said Pass Book that importer is not engaged in any commercial activity and specifies the aggregate CIF value limit for imports in the said year upto which the importer can import consumable goods subject to the CIF value specified in clause (b) above and also specifies the aggregate CIF value limit for imports in the said year upto which the importer can import scientific and technical instruments, apparatus, equipments, computer-software, accessories and spare parts subject to the CIF value specified in clause (c) above;". 9. 293/88-Customs, dated the 14th October, 1988. In the said notification, for the portion beginning with the words, brackets and letter "from - (a) so much of that portion" and ending with the words "second mentioned Act", the words and figure "from the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the second mentioned Act" shall be substituted. 10. 68/89-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1989. In the said notification, for the figures and words "40% ad valorem ", the figures and words "25% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 11. 91/89-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1989 In the said notification, - (1) for the figures and words "40% ad valorem ", the figures and words "25% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (2) in the Table, - (i) against S. No. 9, in the entry in column (2), for the brackets and words "(excluding paper capacitor, power capacitors, and disc ceramic capacitors)", the brackets and words "(excluding paper capacitors and power capacitors)" shall be substituted; (ii) for S. Nos. 31 to 42 and entries relating thereto, the following S. Nos. and entries relating thereto shall be substituted, namely : -"31. Fibre optics and other optoelectronics components and device, namely, Couplers, Attenuators, Connectors, Splicers, Multiplexers and Demultiplexers. 32. Passive optical components, namely, Microlens and splitters, Micropositioners, Optical filters and gratings, and Phase plates. 33. Special purpose optical fibres and cables, namely, Polarisation holding fibres, Plastic fibres and large core fibres. 34. Photodetectors/modules, Light Emitting Diodes and semiconductor laser diodes for photonics systems.". 12. 235/90-Customs, dated the 23rd August, 1990. In the said notification, - (i) for the words and figures "telecommunication and photographic equipments falling within Chapter 85 or 90 of", the words "the goods specified in column (2) of the Table below and falling within" shall be substituted; (ii) in condition (i), for the words "an Under Secretary to the Government of India", the words "a Deputy Principal Information Officer in the Press Information Bureau" shall be substituted; (iii) after condition (ii), the following Table shall be added, namely :- "TABLE S. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Television cameras with portable field video recorders (professional grade). 2. Audio recording equipment. 3. Table top post production video editing machines. 4. Four source editing controllers to control editing machines. 5. 8-channel video mixer/switches. 6. Special effect generators for fading and superimposing of text and graphics. 7. Time base correctors/Frame synchronisers. 8. Broadcast standard 3-D computer graphic systems. 9. Professional grade colour video monitors. 10. Portable lighting equipment with lamps for shooting in low light situation. 11. Professional grade photographic cameras of all formats. 12. Dark room equipment including enlargers. 13. Computer control editing machines. 14. Spares and accessories of abovementioned equipment as permitted by the said Deputy Principal Information officer." 13. 294/90-Customs, dated the 17th December, 1990. In the said notification, for the figures and words "84.71, and the accompanying software of such computer equipments, falling under heading No. 85-24, of", the figures and word "84.71 of" shall be substituted. 14. 83/93-Customs, dated the 28th February, 1993. In the said notification, for condition (ii), the following condition shall be substituted, namely :-"(ii) the exemption under this notification shall be applicable to that portion of C.I.F. value of the said goods, which does not exceed Rs. 60,000;". 15. 178/93-Customs, dated the 26th October, 1993. In the said notification, for the words "Low vision Aid", the words "Low vision Aid for visually handicapped persons" shall be substituted. 16. 76/94-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1994. In the Table annexed to the said notification, - (i) against Sl. No. 1, in column (4), for the figures and words "20% ad valorem " the figures and words "15% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (ii) for Sl. No. 2 and entries relating thereto, the following Sl. No. and entries shall be substiuted, namely : - (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) "2. 7019.00 3906.90 3911.00 E-glass Yarn/roving for FRP UV resin for FRP Complex high Molecular Weight Resin in Acrylate Solution for FRP Other Organic Compound for FRP, - 15% ad valorem FRP (Telecom-munication grade)."; 2942.00 Acrylated Monomores 2942.00 Photoinitiater 2942.00 Tert Butyl Perbenzonate 2942.00 Zinc soap of long fatty acid mixture 3902.00 Modified Polypropyl-ene 3901.00 Ethylene Acrylic Acid (EAA) (iii) against S. No. 3, in column (4), for the figures and words "40% ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 17. 84/94-Customs, dated the Ist March, 1994. In the Table annexed to the said notification, - (i) against S. No. 3, for the entry in column (2), the following entry shall be substituted, namely :- "Components of mechanical wrist watches and quartz analog wrist watches, falling within Ch. 91 of the First Schedule, other than the following namely :- (a) Dial (b) Dial foot (c) Dial ring (d) Appliques (e) Bezel (f) Back cover (g) Bezel ring (h) Movement holder (i) crown (j) stem pipe (k) crystal (with or without tension ring) (l) O-ring (or gasket) (m) Hands (n) complete watch case (o) spring bar/sick bar."; (ii) S. No. 4 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted.