Prescribes duty on specified equipments for safety in chemicals industry - 068/89 - Customs -Tariff

Prescribes duty on specified equipments for safety in chemicals industry Notification No. 68/89-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 the goods specified in the Table below, when imported into India for the purposes of safety in chemical industries or for the purposes of environmental pollution control, from - (a) so much of that portion of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of 35 per cent ad valorem ; and (b) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, subject to the condition that the importer, at the time of clearance produces a certificate from an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Chemicals and Petro Chemicals or in the Ministry of Environment and Forest, as the case may be, indicating in each case the quantity of the goods in question as are or will be required for the purpose specified above. TABLE S. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Monitoring Instruments of various ranges suitable for ambient air and stack monitoring for toxic/hazardous chemicals. 2. Gas detectors/alarms for measuring concentration of toxic/ hazardous gases. 3. Personal samplers with re-chargeable battery units. 4. Toxic gas monitoring kits containing personal samplers, sampler with filter head, filter holders, membrane filter of different pore sizes, small cyclone for respirable dust monitoring and activated carbon tubes for collection of specified chemical pollutants. 5. Direct reading colorimetric indicator tubes with accessories for monitoring toxic gases/vapour. 6. Long term direct reading detector tubes with peristaltic pump, for monitoring toxic gases/chemicals. 7. Direct reading instruments for monitoring and evaluation of air borne particles. 8. Direct reading instruments for air borne gases and vapours incorporating the principles of ultra violet or infrared absorption, chromatography with flame ionisation or photo-ionisation detector or micro-processor control solid state circuitry. 9. Platinum based catalyst and systems to incinerate formaldhyde in gaseous emissions. 10. Special incineration system for various toxic gases/solids. 11. Condensing heat exchangers for reducing thermal pollution through stack gases. 12. Self contained and compressed air/blower based breathing apparatus. 13. Full Body protection suit for dealing with emergencies created due to leakage/spillage of highly toxic chemicals. 14. Hypalon suits for emergencies for hydroflouric acid. 15. Ultrasonic or irradiation type thickness testers. 16. Instruments for liquid effluent control, namely :- (a) Ion chromotograph for anions (b) Atomic absorption spectroscope for metal analysis (c) Differential pulse polarograph for metal analysis. 17. Plate type compact clarifiers. 18. Sulzer or equivalent high efficiency packing for distillation columns for pollution control. 19. Bag Filter with special fabrics to withstand above 200°C temperatures and 100 micron or less size particle removal. 20. Special plastic media for fixed film technology used in Anaerobic treatment of high strength organic waste effluents. 21. Automatic absorption Spectro photometer. 22. Gas Chromatograph. 23. Analysers for carbon monoxide and Hydrocarbon. 24. Auto analyser for phosphate and nitrogen. 25. Thermohydrograph.