Amends 11 notifications so as to, inter alia, rationalise the duty rates on various goods falling under Chapters 90 to 97 - 131/90 - Customs -Tariff

Amends 11 notifications so as to, inter alia, rationalise the duty rates on various goods falling under Chapters 90 to 97 Notification No. 131/90-Cus. Dated 20-3-1990 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 Department of Revenue and Banking or in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), as the case may be, 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. Notification No. and date Amendment (1) (2) (3) 1. 209/76-Customs, dated the 2nd August, 1976. In the said notification, for the figures and words "70 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "60% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 2. 314/76-Customs, dated the 2nd August, 1976. In the said notification, for the figures and words "40 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 3. 112/77-Customs, dated the 1st July, 1977. In the opening paragraph of the said notification, for the figures and words "40 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 4. 185/77-Customs, dated the 27th August, 1977. In the said notification, for the figures and symbol "40%", the figures and "30%" shall be inserted. 5. 243/78-Customs, dated the 26th December, 1978. In the opening paragraph of the said notification, for the figures and words "30 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted; 6. 118/83-Customs, dated the 4th May, 1983. In the opening paragraph of the said notification, for the figures and words "60% ad valorem ", the figures and words "55% ad valorem " shall be substituted; 7. 43/85-Customs, dated the 28th February, 1985. In the said notification, in sub-paragraph (a) of the opening paragraph, for the figures and words "10 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "30% ad valorem " shall be substituted; 8. 46/85-Customs dated the 28th February, 1985. In the said notification,- (i) in sub-paragraph (a) of the opening paragraph, for the figures and words "30 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (ii) in the Table annexed, after Sl. No. 42 and the entries relating thereto, the following Sl. No. and entries shall be inserted, namely :- 1. (2) (3) "43. Mineral glass sheets 9. 345/85-Customs, dated the 2nd December, 1985. In the said notification, in sub-paragraph (a) of the opening paragraph, for the figures and words "25 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted; 10. 71/86-Customs, dated the 17th February, 1986. In the said notification, for the figures and words "60% ad valorem ", the figures and words "55% ad valorem " shall be substituted; 11. 109/86-Customs, dated the 17th February, 1986. In the Table annexed to the said notification, - (i) against Sl. No. (1), in column 3, for the figures and words "40 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (ii) against Sl. No. (3), in column 3, for the figures and words "40 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted.