Amends certain notifications so as to, inter-alia, - (i) exempt mica scrap and waste from export duty; (ii) continue the existing rate of basic duty on photopolymer plates; and (iii) continue the existing rate of basic duty on alphapinene and turpentine - 048/90 - Customs -Tariff

Amends certain notifications so as to, inter-alia, - (i) exempt mica scrap and waste from export duty; (ii) continue the existing rate of basic duty on photopolymer plates; and (iii) continue the existing rate of basic duty on alphapinene and turpentine. Notification No. 48/90-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 or Department of Revenue and Banking, as the case may be, specified in the 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. THE TABLE Sl. No. Notification No. Date Amendment (1) (2) (3) 1. 217/76-Customs, dated the 2nd August, 1976. In the said notification, for the figure and words "90 per cent ad valorem ", shall be substituted. 2. 29/79-Customs, dated the 10th February, 1979 In the Table annexed to the said notification, against Sl. No. 5, in the entries relating thereto, the words "resin tanning agents" shall be deleted. 3. 19/85-Customs, dated the 1st February, 1985 In the said notification, for the figures and words "31st day of March, 1990.", the figures and words "31st day of March, 1991" shall be substituted. 4. 59/85-Customs, dated the 17th March, 1985 In the said notification, for the words "ten per cent ad valorem ", the words "fifteen per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 5. 231/88-Customs, dated the 1st August, 1988 In the said notification, for the figures and words "31st day of March, 1990", the figures and words "31st day of March, 1991", shall be substituted. 6. 39/89-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1989 In the said notification, for the figures and words "45 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "35 per cent ad valorem ", shall be substituted. 7. 100/89-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1989 In the Table annexed to the said notification, after the Sl. No. 7 and the entry relating thereto, the following Sl. No. and entry shall be inserted, namely:- (1) (2) (3) "7A. 8. Mica, including fabricated mica."