Prescribes duty on specified capital goods for the electronics industry - 078/89 - Customs -Tariff

Prescribes duty on specified capital goods for the electronics industry Notification No. 78/89-Cus. Dated 1-3-1989 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 goods specified in the Table below and falling within Chapter 84, Chapter 85 or Chapter 90 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), and are used in the electronic industry, when imported into India, from - (a) 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 30 per cent ad valorem ; and (b) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the second mentioned Act. TABLE Sl. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Ageing and/or reforming machine 2. Air gap grinding machine for ferrites 3. Aluminising machine for television picture tubes 4. Annular wafering/lap cutting/multiblade wafering machine for silicon/quartz crystals 5. Attritor or circulation type attritor for manufacture of ferrites 6. Automatic bar cut off with stripper attachment 7. Automatic coil or foil winding machine 8. Automatic component insertion/placement/mounting machine with accessories 9. Automatic curling machine 10. Automatic machine for resistors with one or more of the following functions, namely :- (a) Lead welding (b) Lacquering (c) Testing (d) Colour coding (e) Sorting (f) Packing 11. Automatic moulding machine, with/without pulp beater for manufacture of paper cones for loudspeakers, complete with accessories 12. Automatic photolithography inspection station for semiconductor manufacture 13. Automatic pin/lead forming machines for pin/lead diameter upto 1 mm 14. Automatic screen printing machine for electronic components 15. Automatic sleeving or assembly machine, or both for capacitors 16. Automatic slitters 17. Automatic sorter and/or handler for electronic components 18. Automatic tab making/setting machine 19. Automatic tape wrapping machine for capacitors 20. Automatic temperature controlled precision moulding press for encapsulation 21. Automatic teminal capping machine for capping resistors 22. Automatic testing machine for capacitors with any of the following test functions (i) Capacitance (ii) Tan-Delta (iii) HF Impedance (iv) Leakage current (v) Insulation resistance 23. Automatic testing or marking or printing or tapping machine or any combination thereof 24. Automatic welding or coating or stamping machine for cermet variable resistors 25. Automatic, semiautomatic test equipment for solar cells 26. Blank cleaning and etching system for crystals manufacture 27. Board piercing, cropping or tagging machine for manufacture of potentiometers 28. Bulk eraser machine 29. CNC automat, bar capacity upto 25 mm, for manufacture of connectors, relays or switches 30. CNC/Numerically controlled high speed multihead drilling machine for printed circuit boards 31. Calendering machine for electronic components 32. Capacitance discharge welding machine with power supply and weldhead with maximum energy setting upto 750 watt-seconds suitable for precision metal welding 33. Central signal supply for television testing comprising of (a) Television synch generator, Test generator, CTV Test pattern generator/function generator (b) Modulator (c) Transmitter 34. Central signal sweep system comprising of (i) RF Distribution amplifier (ii) Accessories (a) Attenuators (b) Market adder (c) signal distributor (iii) Current probes (iv) Voltage probes 35. Character generator 36. Chemical vapour degreasing/cleaning/desmearing equipment 37. Cold welding machine for welding of aluminium foils for manufacture of Electrolytic Capacitors 38. Colour TV pattern generator 39. Colour coding machine with auto feeder 40. Colour synthesiser 41. Conveyor furnace with or without atmosphere control/gas handling system with accessories and options, for electronic components 42. Crystal Impedance meter 43. Curve tracer for displaying semiconductor device characteristics 44. Degaussing coil/degausser 45. Desoldering machine/tool for removing of components from PCB 46. Direct and back geared miniature punch presses suitable for mounting on assembly tables 47. Double disc grinding machine for manufacture of ferrites 48. Dust level monitor/fume hoods/dust precipitators 49. Dynamic balancing machine for Micromotors of voltage rating upto 13.5 volts and not exceeding 20 watts rating 50. Electrolyte impregnating equipment for electrolytic capacitors 51. Electrostatic epoxy coating machine for manufacture of DC Micromotors 52. Etching system complete with etchant regeneration in-line ink removal and washing for PCB production 53. Etching/Forming machine for aluminium electrolytic capacitors and/or etched aluminium foils 54. First reduction camera (upto 50 reduction) 55. Frequency synthesisers 56. Frequency/Wave/Spectrum/Modulation analysers 57. Hand crimping tools 58. Helium leak detector 59. High accuracy LCR bridges (0.01% and above) 60. High precision eyeletting machine with automatic feed mechanism for eyelets with shank diameter less than 0.065 inch for contact assembly 61. High precision hydraulic presses with variable steps and variable capacity up to 5 tons suitable for mounting on assembly tables 62. High precision semi-automatic rivetting machine for contact assembly with rivet shank diameter less than 0.125 inch 63. High speed precision press (600 strokes per minute or better) for the manufacture of electronic components 64. Hot air levelling equipment for PCB production 65. Hydraulic blanking machine for manufacture of DC micromotors 66. In circuit component testing/populated PCB testing machine 67. Infrared radiant driers for electronic components 68. Isothermal magnetic heat treatment furnace for cast alloy permanent magnets 69. Laminating press for manufacture of multilayer printed circuit boards 70. Leak tester and/or vibration tester for capacitors 71. Life test equipment for semiconductor manufacture 72. Lux meter 73. Magnetic tape coating plant with/without calendering machine and with/without dryer 74. Mask cleaner for semiconductor manufacture 75. Microprocessor controlled auto temperature character tester for crystals 76. Multislide punching and forming machine 77. NID meter 78. Nitriding equipment for semiconductor manufacture 79. PCB lead cutting and bonding tools, pneumatically or electrically operated 80. Peak millivoltmeter 81. Digital RMS multimeters and voltmeters (6-1/2 digits and above) 82. Quartz watch analyser 83. RF attenuator 84. Sand mill for manufacture of magnetic tapes 85. Semi-automatic/automatic work holders/handlers and accessories for semiconductor manufacture 86. Silicon bar sawing machine 87. Slurry agitator for manufacture of magnetic tape 88. Slurry mixer for manufacture of magnetic tape 89. Sound level meter 90. Special testing and calibration equipments for electronic milk analysers, including calibrator, milko tester, homogeniser tester, cuvette tester and electronic circuit tester 91. Spot welder machine for metal welding for electron tube or electron gun manufacture 92. Stripper for PCB production 93. Surface roughness tester/surface flatness tester 94. Surge tester for power devices 95. Sweep oscillators 96. Temperature cycling and environmental oven for heat stabilisation of electronic components 97. Thermal resistance testers for semiconductor manufacture 98. Transfer moulding press (hydraulic) for transistors, diode, integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices 99. Ultrasonic welding machine including plastic welder for electronic components 100. VHF or UHF or VHF-UHF modulator 101. VHF/UHF/VHF-UHF/Microwave sweep generator 102. Vacuum annealing oven for piezo electric crystals manufacture 103. Vertical and horizontal glass working lathes for manufacture of electron tubes 104. Vibro energy milk or continuous vibration mill for manufacture of ferrites 105. Video IF sweep generator with marker generator 106. Video response generator (burst generator) 107. Wave soldering/flow soldering/reflow soldering/drag soldering systems/machines 108. Wiper forming machine for manufacture of potentiometers 109. Wiper wire straightening machine for manufacture of potentiometers 110. Wire forming machine for ceramic capacitors 111. Wire wrapping machines/wire wrapping took 112. Wow and flutter wave analysers.