Exemption to copper wire bars, cathodes, wire rods and nickel [Chapter 74 or 75] - 145/89 - Customs -Tariff

Exemption to copper wire bars, cathodes, wire rods and nickel [Chapter 74 or 75] Notification No. 145/89-Cus. Dated 25-4-1989 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 exempts copper wire bars, copper cathodes, copper wire rods and nickel falling within Chapter 74 or 75 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and produced out of copper reverts, copper spent anodes or copper anode slime sent out of India for toll smelting or toll processing, when imported into India, from so much of that portion of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the said First Schedule as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of fifty per cent of the value of the said goods representing only - (i) the toll smelting or toll processing costs, as the case may be, that is to say, - (a) labour charges, (b) cost of material (other than the cost of the goods sent out of India) used in such toll smelting or toll processing, and (c) any other charges which are payable in connection with the toll smelting or toll processing abroad; and (ii) the insurance and freight charges both ways, subject to the following conditions, namely : - (a) the copper wire bars, copper cathodes, copper wire rods or nickel, as the case may be, are imported within three years of the date of sending of copper reverts, copper spent anodes or copper anode slime out of India; and (b) sufficient evidence exists to show that the copper wire bars, copper cathodes, copper wire rods or nickel, as the case may be, which are imported have in fact been obtained out of toll smelting or toll processing of the copper reverts, copper spent anodes or copper anode slime sent out of India.