Amends certain notifications so as to, inter alia, - (i) prescribe a basic duty of 35% for specified pollution control equipments; and ii) prescribe a basic duty of 35% for specified components of certain instruments - 130/90 - Customs -Tariff

Amends certain notifications so as to, inter alia, - (i) prescribe a basic duty of 35% for specified pollution control equipments; and ii) prescribe a basic duty of 35% for specified components of certain instruments Notification No. 130/90-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 Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), specified in column (2) of the Table hereto annexed, shall be further amended in the manner specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) thereof. TABLE S. No. Notification No. and date Amendment (1) (2) (3) 1. 89/82-Customs, dated the 25th March, 1982 In the said notification, - (i) after the words "free trade zone in India", the words "or hundred per cent export-oriented undertaking" shall be inserted. (ii) for the Explanation, the following Explanation shall be substituted, namely :- Explanation :- For the purpose of this notifica tion, "free trade zone" and "hundred per cent export-oriented undertaking" have the same meaning as in Explanation 2 to sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (1 of 1944). 2. 210/82-Customs, dated the 10th September, 1982. In the said notification, paragraph 2 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted. 3. 513/86-Customs, dated the 30th December, 1986. In the said notification, paragraph 2 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted. 4. 65/87-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1987. In the Table annexed to the said notification, - (i) for the figures and words "30% ad valorem " figuring at Sl. Nos. 1 to 4, 7 and 8, the Figures and words "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (ii) for the figures and words "60% ad valorem " figuring at Sl. Nos. 5, 6 and 9 to 12, the figures and words "55% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (iii) Sl. No. 13 and the entry relating thereto shall be omitted; and (iv) In paragraph 2, for the figures and words "31st March, 1990", the figures and words "31st day of March, 1991", shall be substituted. 5. 68/89-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1989. In the Table annexed to the said notification, after Sl. No. 25 and the entries relating thereto, the following Sl. Nos. and the entries shall be inserted, namely : - "26. Smokemeter. 27. Opacity meters. 28. Air sampling bags. 29. Resistivity measuring kits to analyse characteristics of flyash at different elevated temperatures. 30. Total organic carbon analyser. 31. Fluorimeter. 32. Dissolved oxygen meter. 33. COD meter (chemical oxygen demand meter). 34. Niskin water sampler. 35. Sediment sampler.". 6. 97/89-Customs, dated the 1st Much, 1989. In the Table annexed to the said notification, after Sl. No. 17 and the entries relating thereto, the following Sl. Nos. and the entries shall be inserted, namely : - "18. Tachographs for locomotives. 19. Lyophilizers/shelf freeze dryers. 20. Automatic levelling instruments and electronic distance measuring instruments (surveying instruments). 21. Microscopes. 22. Spectroscopes. 23. Trivector meters of accuracy 0.5% 24. Smokemeters 25. Opacity meters 26. Total organic carbon analyzer 27. Flouriroeter. 28. Dissolved oxygen meters. 29. COD meters 30. Niskin water samplers 31. Sediment samplers.".