Exemption to Specified Imported Goods Required for the Purpose of Livestock Breeding Programmes - 084/91 - Customs -Tariff

Rescinded vide Notification No. 21/97-Cus dated 1-3-1997 Exemption to Specified Imported Goods Required for the Purpose of Livestock Breeding Programmes Notification No. 84/91-Cus. Dated 25-7-1991 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 27/88-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1988, the Central Government being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the goods specified in the Table below, when imported into India, from - (a) so much of that portion of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of 35 per cent ad valorem ; and (b) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, subject to the condition that an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of India is satisfied that goods in question are required for the purpose of livestock breeding programmes and certifies to this effect and recommends grant of the above exemption. TABLE Sl. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Automatic straw filling and sealing machine 2. Automatic printing machine 3. Programmed biological freezer 4. Automatic semen analyser 5. Photometer for semen analysis 6. Ovucheck pregnancy detecting kit 7. Freeze drier 8. Tuberculin syringe 9. Calorimeter for semen analysis 10. Phase contrast microscope 11. Semen straws (French medium and mini) 12. Sheath for French mini straws 13. Large sized liquid nitrogen containers/cryo containers above 60 litre capacity 14. Liquid nitrogen tankers above 500 litre capacity