Amends 30 notifications so as to, inter alia, rationalise the duty rates on various capital goods and raise import duty on aluminium. - 103/90 - Customs -Tariff

Amends 30 notifications so as to, inter alia, rationalise the duty rates on various capital goods and raise import duty on aluminium. Notification No. 103/90-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. 270/76-Customs, dated the 2nd August, 1976 In the said notification, for the figures and words "40 per cent", the figures and words "35 per cent" shall be substituted. 2. 172/77-Customs, dated the 8th August, 1977 In the Table annexed to the said notification.- (i) Sl. No. 1 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; and (ii) for the figures and words "60 per cent ad valorem ", wherever they occur, the figures and words "55 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 3. 220/78-Customs, dated the 10th November, 1978 In the said notification, for the figures and words "45 per cent'', the figures and words "35 per cent" shall be substituted. 4. 138/79-Customs, dated the 27th June, 1979 In the said notification, for the figures "40%", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted. 5. 48/84-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1984 In the said notification, for the figures and words "25 per cent", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted. 6. 224/84-Customs, dated the 23rd August, 1984 In the said notification, for the figures and words "40 per cent", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted. 7. 224/85-Customs, dated the 9th July, 1985 In the said notification, for the words "forty per cent", the figures and words "35 per cent" shall be substituted. 8. 93/86-Customs, dated the 17th February, 1986 In the Table annexed to the said notification, for the figures and words "60% ad valorem ", wherever they occur, the figures and words "55 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 9. 106/86-Customs, dated the 17th February, 1986 In the Table annexed to the said notification, for the figures and words "40 per cent ad valorem ", wherever they occur, the figures and words "35 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 10. 112/86-Customs, dated the 17th February, 1986 In the Table annexed to the said notification, for the figures and words "55% ad valorem ", the figures and words "35 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 11. 134/86-Customs, dated the 17th February, 1986 In the Table annexed to the said notification, for the figures and words "60 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "55 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 12. 390/86-Customs, dated the 29th July, 1986 In the said notification, - (i) for the word and figures "Chapter 84", the words and figures "Chapter 84 or Chapter 90" shall be substituted; and (ii) for the words "thirty per cent", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted. 13. 397/86-Customs, dated the 29th July, 1986 In the said notification, for the figures and words "25 per cent", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted. 14. 2/87-Customs, dated the 1st January, 1987 In the Table annexed to the said notification, against Sl. No. 1 in column (3), for the word "Nil", the figures and words "10% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 15. 59/87-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1987 In the Table annexed to the said notification, for Sl. No. l3 and the entries relating thereto, the following Sl. No. and the entries shall be substituted, namely :- (1) (2) (3) "13. 84.18 Refrigerators and refrigerating equip ment including freezing equipment (electrical and others) other than house-hold type refrigerator.". 16. 60/87-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1987 In the Table annexed to the said notification, - (i) against Sl. Nos. 1 and 2, in column (4), for the figures and words "110 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "105 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted; (ii) against Sl. Nos. 4(c) and 7, in column (4), for the figures and words "40 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted; (iii) against Sl. No. 6, in column (4), for the figures and words "60 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "55 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted; and (iv) against Sl. Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, in column (4), for the figures and words "40 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 17. 71/87-Customs, dated 1st March, 1987 In paragraph 2 of the said notification, for the words and Figures "the 31st March, 1990", the words and figures "the 31st March, 1991" shall be substituted. 18. 158/87-Customs, dated the 2nd April, 1987 In the said notification, paragraph 2 shall be omitted. 19. 181/87-Customs, dated the 29th April, 1987 In the said notification,- (i) for the figures and words "25 per cent", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted; and (ii) for the existing Table, the following Table shall be substituted, namely :- TABLE Articles falling under the following heading Nos. of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), namely :- (1) 84.44 to 84.48 (excluding domestic knitting machines and auxiliary machinery for use with domestic knitting machines). (2) 84.51 (excluding dry cleaning machines). (3) 84.56 to 84.65." 20. 317/87-Customs, dated the 17th September, 1987 In the Table annexed to the said notification, against S. No. (ii), in column (2), for item No. 22 and the entry relating thereto, the following item No. and the entry shall be substituted, namely :- "22. Precision surface grinding machine with longitudinal traverse accuracy achievable over full working range of 0.005 mm with or without creep feeding grinding attachment. Surface finish 0.025 Micron Ra value.". 21. 343/87-Customs, dated the 27th October, 1987 In the said notification, for the words and figures "Rs. 2,500 per tonne", the words and figures "Rs. 6,000 per tonne" shall be substituted. 22. 20/88-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1988 In the said notification, for the figures and words "25 per cent", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted. 23. 22/88-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1988 In the said notification, in clause (i), for the words "bicycles and components thereof", the words "bicycles, components and accessories thereof (when exported along with bicycles)" shall be substituted. 24. 24/88-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1988 In the Table annexed to the said notification, for Sl. No. 5 and the entry relating thereto, the following Sl. No. and the entry shall be substituted, namely :- (1) (2) "5. Form fill seal sachet machine with gas flushing and/or vacuumising arrangement of output ranging between 400 to 1000 per minute.". 25. 25/88-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1988 In the said notification, for the figure and, words "35 per cent", the figures and words "40 per cent" shall be substituted. 26. 27/88-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1988 In the said notification, for the figures and words "25 per cent", the figures and words "35 per cent" shall be substituted. 27. 250/88-Customs, dated the 16th September, 1988 In the said notification, for the figures and words "25 per cent", the figures and words" 15 per cent" shall be substituted. 28. 315/88-Customs, dated the 15th December, 1988 In the said notification, for the figures and words "45 per cent", the figures and words "35 per cent" shall be substituted. 29. 5/89-Customs, dated the 12th January, 1989 In the said notification, for the figures "25%", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted. 30. 98/89-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1989 In the said notification, for the figures and words "20 per cent", the figures and words "15 per cent" shall be substituted.