Amends certain notifications so as to, inter alia,- (i) prescribe effective rates of basic duty on animals for breeding (ii) prescribe effective rates of basic duty on prawn feed (iii) prescribe effective rates of basic duty on specified goods falling under Chapter 15 - 031/90 - Customs -Tariff

Amends certain notifications so as to, inter alia,- (i) prescribe effective rates of basic duty on animals for breeding (ii) prescribe effective rates of basic duty on prawn feed (iii) prescribe effective rates of basic duty on specified goods falling under Chapter 15 Notification No. 31/90-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 and Banking, or 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. 431/76-Customs, dated the 1st November, 1976. In the Table to the said notification, against Sl. No. 13, for the entry in column (4), the entry "Rs. 20 per kilogram less 7.5% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 2. 135/76-Customs, dated the 2nd August, 1976. In the Table to the said notification, against S. No. 2, for the entry in column (3), the entry " 15% ad valorem " shall be substituted. 3. 237/78-Customs, dated the 18th December, 1978. In the said notification, for the figures and words "25% ad valorem " the figures and words "15 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 4. 230/82-Customs, dated the 19th October 1982. In the said notification, for the figures and words "31st day of March 1990" the figures and words "31st day of March 1995" shall be substituted. 5. 173/88-Customs, dated the 16th May, 1988. In the said notification,- (i) for the words, and figures "sub-heading No. 2309.90", the words and figures "sub-heading No. 2301.20 or 2309.90" shall be substituted; (ii) for the figures and words "35 per cent ad valorem ", the figures and words "25 per cent ad valorem " shall be substituted. 6. 31/89-Customs, dated the 1st January, 1989. In the Table to the said notification,- (i) against S. Nos. 1 and 2, for the entry in column (4), the entry "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (ii) against S. No. 4, for the entry in column (4), the entry "55% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (iii) against S. Nos. 7 and 8, for the entry in column (4), the entry "55% ad valorem '' shall be substituted; (iv) against S. Nos. 42, 43, 44 and 49, for the entry in column (4), the entry "35% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (v) against S. No. 50, for the entry in column (4), the entry "70% ad valorem " shall be substituted; (vi) against S. Nos. 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55, for the entry in column (4), the entry "55 % ad valorem " shall be substituted. 7. 202/89-Customs, dated the 4th July, 1989. In the said notification, for the figures and words "30% ad valorem ", the figures and words "35% ad valorem" shall be substituted.