Exemption to 112 specified communication/broadcasting/ studio equipment - 059/88 - Customs -Tariff

Exemption to 112 specified communication/broadcasting/ studio equipment Notification No. 59/88-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 exempts the goods specified in the Table below and falling within Chapter 84, 85 or 90 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), when imported into India, from - (a) so much of that portion of the duty of customs leviable therein which is specified in the said First Schedule, as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of 55 per cent ad valorem ; and (b) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act. TABLE Sl. No. Description of the goods (i) Telecommunication transmission equipments, namely, - 1. Frequency division multiplexing equipment. 2. Direct to line multiplexing equipment. 3. Line doubling equipment. 4. Speech interpolation equipment. 5. Open-wire communicatian equipment. 6. Subscriber carrier communication equipment. 7. Power line carrier communication equipment. 8. Coaxial cable communication equipment. 9. Line concentrators. 10. Network/Transmission surveillance systems. 11. Voice frequency telegraphy systems. 12. Time division multiplexing systems. 13. Pulse code modulation (PCM) multiplexing equipment and related signalling converters, line terminal equipment and regenerative repeators. 14. Trans-multiplexers. 15. Drop and insert multiplexing equipment. 16. Single channel VHF communication equipment. 17. UHF communication systems (analog and digital). 18. Microwave communication equipment. 19. Multi-access radio telephone systems. 20. Equipments at Sl. No. 16 to 19 above, alongwith various subsystems viz. antennas, power supplies, feeder cables, duplexers, modulators, demodulators, combiners, equalizers. 21. Cellulor radio system. (ii) Satellite communication equipments, namely, - 1. Satellite earth stations with following sub-systems : -High power amplifiers. -Low noise amplifiers. -Ground communication equipment. -Single channel per carrier communication equipment. -Single channel per carrier communication equipment with DAMA capability. -Up/Down converters. -Antennae systems. -Radio networking terminals. 2. Television receive only terminals/Direct reception sets. (iii) Two-way radio communication equipment, namely, - 1. MF/HF/VHF/UHF Transceivers. 2. MF/HF/VHF Transmitters. 3. MF/HF/VHF Receivers. 4. Radio paging systems. 5. Cordless telephones. (iv) Switching equipment, namely, - 1. Electronic private automatic branch exchanges. 2. Electronic private automatic exchanges. 3. Key telephone systems. 4. Electronic switching systems (ESS)/Local exchanges. 5. Electronic local tandem exchanges. 6. Digital trunk automatic exchanges. 7. SPC telex exchange equipment. 8. Rural automatic exchanges. 9. Electronic transit exchanges. 10. Digital electronic international gateway exchanges. 11. Following allied equipment for switching equipment : -Billing systems. -Multikey executive phones. -Automatic message accounting system. -Multiline observation equipment. -Main distribution frame. -Operation maintenance equipment. (v) Data communication equipment, namely, - 1. Concentrator. 2. Controller. 3. Data modem. 4. Data multiplexer. 5. Front end processor. 6. Gateway. 7. Protocol conventer. 8. Integrated voice/Data terminals. 9. Packet assembles/Disassemblers. (vi) Terminals, namely, - 1. Telephone instruments. 2. Telephone answering/Recording machine, STD barring device, Diallers, Call Monitors. 3. Teleprinters. 4. Payphones 5. Facsimile equipment. (vii) T.V. Broadcast/Studio equipments namely, - 1. TV Transmitters and accessories. 2. Antennae system and accessories. 3. Transposers and translators. 4. TV Relay receivers. 5. Microwave links. 6. Telecine equipment and accessories. 7. Professional video cameras and accessories. 8. Camera control unit, Battery pack, Tripod/Dolly. 9. Professional video tape recorders and accessories. 10. Digital time base corrector (DTBC). 11. Editing controls for video tape recorders. 12. Outdoor broadcast vans without chessis/Vehicular parts. 13. Electronic field production vans without chessis/Vehicular parts. 14. Video and audio switcher. 15. Limiting amplifiers, Video distribution amplifiers, Stabilizing amplifiers. 16. Character generator. 17. Professional monitors for studio use. 18. View finders. 19. Zoom lenses. 20. Microphones. 21. Headset intercom equipment. 22. Computerised editing systems controlling more than three video editing machines. 23. Video computer graphic system. 24. Video animation equipment. 25. Telepromters. 26. Time code generator and reader. 27. Vision mixer (5-6 channels) capable of being used with computer edit system. 28. Telop camera. 29. Digital video library system. 30. Video jack system. 31. Wireless microphones. 32. Waveform monitors and vector scope. 33. Pattern generator. 34. Video and vector scope. 35. Lux meter, Color temperature meter, Dummy plumbicon tubes. 36. High ampere hour nickel rechargeable batteries. 37. Multicore, Multifunctional cables for video use. 38. Paint box (Electronic). 39. Digital video effects equipment/video mixer. 40. Chroma keyer. 41. Wipe extender. 42. Synchronous Generator. 43. Video typewriter. 44. Video duplicating system with master and slave control but without ½" recorder. (viii) Sound broadcast equipments, namely, - 1. Broadcast transmitters and accessories. 2. Antennae system and accessories. 3. Microphones. 4. Console tape recorders. 5. Heavy duty tape recorders. 6. Ultraportable tape recorders. 7. Professional turn tables. 8. Audio mixing consoles. 9. Graphic equaliser. 10. Reverbration generator. 11. Limiting amplifiers, Distribution amplifiers, Stabilising amplifiers. 12. Microwave links. 13. Synthesised receivers. 14. Communication receivers. 15. Rebroadcast receivers.