Amendment to Notification No. 118/80 - 068/88 - Customs -Tariff

Amendment to Notification No. 118/80 Notification No. 68/88-Cus. Dated 1-3-1988 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 makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, (Department of Revenue) No. 118/80-Customs, dated the 19th June, 1980, namely :- In the said notification, for the Table, the following Table shall be substituted, namely :- THE TABLE Sl. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. AC/DC standards. 2. Absolute filter (99.9% efficiency) for air for electronic component industry 3. Ageing and/or reforming machine 4. Air gap grinding machine for ferrites 5. Air velocity meters to monitor the performance of laminar flow stations for semiconductor manufacture 6. Aluminising machine for television picture tubes 7. Angle lapper for revealing junction in semiconductor manufacture 8. Annular wafering/lap cutting/multiblade wafering machine for silicon/quartz crystals 9. Artificial ears/artificial mastoids 10. Attritor or circulation type attritor for manufacture of ferrites 11. Automatic Vacuum coater, evaporator including Electron beam evaporation systems/sputtering unit, heat aided coater for depositing various metal films, metal oxides film and photoresist films 12. Automatic bar cut off with stripper attachment 13. Automatic capacitance-voltage measurement equipment, junction profiler for semiconductor manufacture 14. Automatic coil or foil winding machine 15. Automatic component insertion/placement/mounting machine with accessories 16. Automatic contact welding or bonding machine for semiconductor manufacture 17. Automatic counting and packaging system for electronic components 18. Automatic curling machine 19. Automatic epoxy resin injector filler/encapsulating equipment/microdispensing equipment 20. Automatic frequency plating system or automatic vacuum coater for frequency adjustment for peizo electric crystals 21. Automatic grid hole checking machine for PCB 22. Automatic head tinning machine/automatic end tinning machine 23. Automatic lapping controller 24. Automatic lead soldering machine for loudspeaker/loudspeaker components 25. Automatic lead welding machine with programmed lead assembly stations and automatic solder adopter stations 26. Automatic machine for assembling cover to potentiometer tracks 27. Automatic machine for inserting lead screw into potentiometer housing for potentiometer 28. Automatic machine for resistors with one or more of the following functions, namely :- (a) Leadwelding (b) Lacquering (c) Testing (d) Colour coding (e) Sorting (f) Packing 29. Automatic moulding machine, with/without pulp beater for manufacture of paper cones for loudspeakers, complete with accessories 30. Automatic paper tube cutting machine for loudspeaker/loudspeaker components 31. Automatic paper tube making machine for loudspeaker/loudspeaker components 32. Automatic photolithography inspection station for semiconductor manufacture 33. Automatic pin/lead forming machines for pin/lead diameter upto 1 mm 34. Automatic plating systems (all types) for electronic components 35. Automatic resistance value (performing machine by helix cutting 36. Automatic resistor bodies sorting machine 37. Automatic rider block assembling machine for cermet variable resistors 38. Automatic rimbanding machine for electron tubes 39. Automatic screen printing machine for electronic components 40. Automatic sleeving or assembly machine, or both for capacitors 41. Automatic slitters 42. Automatic solder dipping machine 43. Automatic sorter and/or handler for electronic components 44. Automatic spider forming and cutting machine for loudspeaker/loudspeaker components 45. Automatic stitcher or automatic winder or a combination thereof for Electrolytic Capacitors 46. Automatic tab making/setting machine. 47. Automatic tape wrapping machine for capacitors 48. Automatic temperature controlled precision moulding press for encapsulation 49. Automatic terminal capping machine for capping resistors 50. Microwave sweep generator 51. VHF/UHF sweep generator 52. AC/DC Sources 53. Automatic testing machine for capacitors with one or more of the following test functions (i) Capacitance (ii) Tan-Delta (iii) HF Impedance (iv) Leakage current (v) Insulation resistance 54. Automatic testing or marking or printing or taping machine or any combination thereof 55. Automatic varnishing or impregnating machine for copper clad laminates 56. Automatic welding machine for termination of plastic film capacitors (metallised and foil types) 57. Automatic welding or coating or stamping machine for cermet variable resistors 58. Automatic wire cutting and stripping machine, with or without welding attachment 59. Automatic, semi-automatic test equipment for solar cells 60. Automatic/semi-automatic carbon track and terminal assembly machine for potent iometer 61. Axtal lead diode reel packer 62. Balancing machine for manufacture of rotating anode X-Ray tubes 63. Bare-board continuity tester for PCB 64. Bevelling equipment or automatic contour generator for manufacture of piezo-electric crystals 65. Blank cleaning and etching system for crystals manufacture 66. Board piercing, cropping or tagging machine for manufacture of potentiometers 67. Bulk eraser machine 68. CNC automat, bar capacity upto 25 mm, for manufacture of connectors, relays or switches 69. CNC/Numerically controlled high speed multihead drilling machine for printed circuit boards 70. Calendering machine for electronic components 71. Capacitance discharge welding machine with power supply and weldhead with maximum energy setting upto 750 watt-seconds suitable for precision metal welding 72. Carbon and/or metal or resistive composition/cermet track writing/coating machine 73. Central signal supply for television testing comprising of (a) Television synch generator, Test generator, CTV Test pattern generator/function generator (b) Modulator (c) Transmitter 74. Central signal sweep system comprising of (i) RF Distribution amplifier (ii) Accessories : (a) Attenuators (b) Marker adder (c) Signal distributor (iii) Current probes (iv) Voltage probes 75. Centrifuge tester for testing semiconductor devices 76. Ceramic element punching/forming machine for capacitors/electro-ceramics 77. Character generator 78. Chemical vapour degreasing/cleaning/desmearing equipment 79. Cold chamber minus 30 degree centrigrade and below 80. Cold welding machine for welding of aluminium foils for manufacture of Electrolytic Capacitors 81. Colour TV pattern generator 82. Colour analyser or white balance checker or white balance tester 83. Colour coding machine with auto-feeder 84. Colour purity meter 85. Colour synthesiser 86. Compression revetters with quick return mechanism 87. Conveyor furnace with or without atmosphere control/gas handling system with accessories and options, for electronic components 88. Copper foil after treatment plant, for production of copper foil, with accessories 89. Copper foil generation plant for production, of copper foil, with accessories 90. Crystal Impedance meter 91. Crystal growth equipment for growing semiconductor single crystal 92. Curve tracer for displaying semiconductor device characteristics 93. Decade resistance standards or decade capacitance standards 94. Degaussing coil/degausser 95. Desoldering machine/tool for removing of components from PCB 96. Die bonders or wire bonders or a combination thereof for semiconductor manufacture 97. Die remover to remove dies from substrates for semiconductor manufacture 98. Diffusion furnace for semiconductor manufacture 99. Dip coating/Powder coating/Conformal coating machine for electronic components 100. Direct and back geared miniature punch presses suitable for mounting on assembly tables 101. Distortion measurement control unit 102. Double disc grinding machine for manufacture of ferrites 103. Dryfilm soldermask laminator 104. Dust level monitor/fume hoods/dust precipitators 105. Dynamic balancing machine for Micro-motors of voltage rating upto 13.5 volts and not exceeding 20 watts rating 106. Electrolyte impregnating equipment for electrolytic capacitors 107. Electron microscope 108. Electron tube test equipment including gas ratio test equipment 109. Electrostatic epoxy coating machine for manufacture of DC Micromotors. 110. Epitaxial reactors or chemical vapour deposition equipment or combination thereof 111. Etching system complete with etchant regeneration in-line ink removal and washing for PCB production 112. Etching/forming machine for aluminium electrolytic capacitors and/or etched aluminium foils 113. Exhaust dolleys for television picture tubes 114. Exhaust equipment (pumping system) for electron tube manufacture 115. field strength meter/field level meter/selective level meter 116. First reduction camera (upto 50 reduction) 117. Floppy disk jacket folding machine 118. Floppy disk punching machine 119. Flux meter 120. Focus checker 121. Forced air or inert atmospheric hydrogen or vacuum baking/sintering oven for electronic components 122. Frequency synthesisers 123. Frequency/wave/spectrum/modulation analysers 124. Gap interface and head profiling process equipment, complete with accessories for manufacture of magnetic heads 125. Gas purifiers for semiconductor manufacture 126. Hand crimping tools 127. Helium leak detector 128. Heterodyne voltmeter 129. High accuracy LCR bridges (accuracy 0.01% and above) 130. High precision eyeletting machine with automatic feed mechanism for eyelets with shank diameter less than 0.065 inch for contact assembly 131. High precision hydraulic presses with variable steps and variable capacity up to 5 tons suitable for mounting on assembly tables 132. High precision semi-automatic rivetting machine for contact assembly with rivet shank diameter less than 0.125 inch 133. High speed duplicating system (excluding cassette to cassette type) for manufacture of pre-recorded audio cassette 134. High speed precision press (600 strokes per minute or better) for the manufacture of electronic components. 135. High speed presses for ferrites and electroceramics 136. Hook pull tester with accessories for semiconductors 137. Hot air levelling equipment for PCB production 138. Hydraulic blanking machine for manufacture of DC micromotors 139. Hysterisis loop tracer for manufacture of ferrites 140. In-circuit component testing/populated PCB testing machine 141. Infra-red radiant driers for electronic components 142. Instrument for measuring life time carriers in semiconductor materials 143. Ion implantation machine for doping semiconductor 144. Isothermal magnetic heat treatment furnace for cast alloy permanent magnets 145. Jacket Lamination machine for floppy disks 146. Laminating press for manufacture of multilayer printed circuit boards 147. Laser power meter, collimeter and spatial filter for electron tubes and television tube manufacture 148. Laser trimmers/laser trimming systems with handlers, tools accessories or any combination thereof 149. Leak tester and/or vibration tester for capacitors 150. Leakage tester for hermetically sealed film capacitors 151. Life test equipment for semiconductor manufacture 152. Luminosity test equipment with calibrated light source for testing of light emitting diodes 153. Lux meter 154. Machine for rotation of potentiometer shaft during testing 155. Magnetic media certification equipment/certifier 156. Magnetic tape coating plant with/without calendering machine and with/without dryer. 157. Mask cleaner for semiconductor manufacture 158. Metalisation plant or metal spraying equipment for metallised plastics film for capacitors 159. Metalisation plant or metal spraying equipment for plastic film capacitors 160. Metallurgical microscope for semiconductor manufacture (magnification equal to or greater than 400) 161. Micro soldering unit (hot gas) for semiconductor manufacture 162. Microprocessor controlled auto temperature character tester for crystals 163. Moisture monitor and dew point meter for semiconductor manufacture 164. Monitor for plated thickness or vapour deposited thickness 165. Multislide punching and forming machine 166. NID meter 167. Network analysers 168. Nitriding equipment for semiconductor manufacture 169. Noise generators 170. Noise measuring and/or noise analysing equipment 171. Octave filter with or without amplifier and/or recorder attachments 172. Optical inspection station for in process inspection of semiconductor chips, devices and lead frames 173. Optical measuring equipment for inspection of grids, cathodes, microwave cavities for manufacture of electron tubes/gun 174. Oscilloscope calibration system 175. Oxygen monitor to measure oxygen in gases used in the semiconductor device manufacture with sensitivity 500 ppm or better 176. PCB lead cutting and bonding tools, pneumatically or electrically operated 177. Particle counter for monitoring dust count in clean rooms for electronic components 178. Peak millivoltmeter 179. Phase delay unit 180. Phase meter 181. Photo repeaters with associated environmental chamber 182. Plasma deposition system 183. Plasma etching machine or wafer etching machine or a combination thereof, for dry or spray etching of silicon wafers 184. Plasma welder 185. Playback or erase or record and playback test station complete with accessories for magnetic heads 186. Porosity Tester 187. Pre-leadering machine 188. Digital RMS multimeters and voltmeters (6-1/2 digits and above) 189. Printed circuit board post soldering-lead trimming machine 190. Profile thermocouples and temperature measurement equipment for electronic component industry 191. Projection welding equipment for semiconductors 192. Pulse generator for testing semiconductor/electron tubes 193. Puridriers for semiconductor manufacture 194. Quartz/crystal slicing machine 195. Quartz watch analyser 196. RF attenuator 197. Reduction furnace for barrier layer ceramic discs 198. Reoxidation furnace for barrier layer ceramic discs 199. Resistivity type measuring and/or sorting equipment for silicon wafers/semi-conductor manufacture 200. Reverberation unit for pre-recorded cassettes manufacture 201. Roll mill or tripple roll mill for manufacture of potentiometers 202. Rotary Screening Machine for Phosphor depositing and coating on electronic tubes 203. Rotary/Oscillating furnace for ferrites 204. Sand mill for manufacture of magnetic tapes 205. Sealant dispensing unit for manufacture of potentiometers 206. Sealing equipment for electronic component industry 207. Semi-automatic/automatic work holders/handlers and accessories for semiconductor manufacture 208. Semi-automatic and automatic terminal/pin forming and/or assembling machine for potentiometers 209. Semiconductor lead frame/header handling equipment/ attachments including those for use with bonders 210. Signal generator or source above 1 GHz. 211. Silicon bar sawing machine 212. Silicon/Quartz crystal/wafer lapping or grinding or polishing or abrading or edge profiling machine or any combination thereof 213. Sinad meter 214. Slurry agitator for manufacture of magnetic tape 215. Slurry mixer for manufacture of magnetic tape 216. Solvent coating equipment used for final sealing of potentiometer and hybrid micro-circuit packages 217. Sound level meter 218. Special testing and calibration equipments for electronic milk analysers, including calibrator, milko tester, homogeniser tester, cuvette tester and electronic circuit tester 219. Spectrometer for measuring level of contamination for semiconductors. 220. Spin driers/rinser driers/scrubbing machine/reribbing machine for PCBs 221. Spot welder machine for metal welding for electron tube or electron gun manufacture 222. Spray drier for ferrite materials 223. Stacking or aligning or glueing machine for electronic component manufacture 224. Step and repeat cameras 225. Stereozoom microscope 226. Stripper for PCB production 227. Stroboscope 228. Sub-micron filter for water or gases or fluids for electronic component industry 229. Surface profilometer to measure small steps in wafers in semiconductor manufacture 230. Surface roughness tester/surface flatness tester 231. Surge tester for power devices 232. Sweep oscillators 233. Temperature Test system for manufacture of piezo electric crystals 234. Temperature cycling and environmental oven for heat stabilisation of electronic components 235. Temperature test system or oscillator test system for manufacture of piezo electric crystals 236. Tension meters (upto 1 kg) or bond pull testers (upto 1 kg) 237. Test equipment for measuring equivalent series resistance in Elec-trolytic Capacitors 238. Testing and measuring instruments for loudspeakers consisting of one or more of the following : (a) Level chart recorder (b) High quality calibrated condenser microphone with stand (c) Sine random generator (d) Gating system (e) Response test unit (f) Spectrum analyser (g) Hetradyne analyser 239. Thermal resistance testers for semiconductor manufacture 240. Thermal wire stripping equipment 241. Thickness tester for measuring the dried print thickness of cermet prints used in the manufacture of potentiometers and hybrid micro-circuits 242. Third harmonic tester 243. Torque gauges or meters (not exceeding 250 gms-cms) 244. Transfer moulding press (hydraulic) for transistors, diode, integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices 245. Trimming plant for copper coated sheets or laminates 246. Trimming systems for hybrid microcircuit (rotary or step and repeat type) 247. UV intensity meter 248. Ultrasonic welding machine including plastic welder for electronic components 249. Ultrasonic/Thermal sealing system for floppy diskettes 250. VHF or UHF or VHF-UHF modulator 251. VHF/UHF sweep generator 252. Vacuum annealing oven for piezo electric crystals manufacture 253. Vacuum casting machine for melting and casting of oxygen free high conductivity copper anodes meant for electron tubes 254. Vacuum demountable annealing equipment for electron tube manufacture 255. Vacuum drying cabinet for evacuating and pre-drying of the press packs of copper coated sheets or laminates, complete with accessories 256. Vacuum measuring equipment for sealed off tubes 257. Vectroscope 258. Vertical and horizontal glass working lathes for manufacture of electron tubes 259. Vibration testing machine with auto frequency changes 260. Vibro energy mill or continuous vibration mill for manufacture of ferrites 261. Video IF sweep generator with marker generator 262. Video response generator (burst generator) 263. Video test signal tester 264. Viscosity meter 265. Wafer inspection equipment (including wafer probers and testers) or wafer mask inspection equipment (including wafer probers and testers) or any combination thereof 266. Wafer processing or wafer masking equipment or a combination thereof with one or more of the following functions : (i) Photoresist coating (ii) Spinning (iii) Exposure (iv) Alignment (v) Baking and (vi) Development 267. Wafer scriber or wafer slicer or wafer sawing machine or wafer fracturer or any combination thereof 268. Wafer thickness tester for silicon wafer/semiconductor industry 269. Watch crystal quality factor tester 270. Wave form monitor 271. Wave soldering/flow soldering/reflow soldering/drag soldering systems/machines. 272. Wiper forming machine for manufacture of potentiometers 273. Wiper wire straightening machine for manufacture of potentiometers 274. Wire forming machine for ceramic capacitors 275. Wire solderability tester for electronic components 276. Wire wrapping machines/wire wrapping tools 277. Wow and flutter calibrators 278. Wow and flutter wave analysers 279. X-Ray analyser for inspection of polished wafers used in semiconductor device manufacture 280. X-Ray geniometer or piezo geniometer