Exemption to 22 specified equipments required for the manufacture of microprocessor, LSI/VLSI etc. - 056/88 - Customs -Tariff

Exemption to 22 specified equipments required for the manufacture of microprocessor, LSI/VLSI etc. Notification No. 56/88-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 or Chapter 85 or Chapter 90, of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and are required for the manufacture of goods, falling under heading No. 85.42 of the said First Schedule, 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 15 percent ad valorem ; and (b) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the second mentioned Act. THE TABLE 1. LSI/VLSI Tester 2. Micromanipulators 3. Molecular Beam Epitaxy System (MBE System) 4. EpitaxialReactors 5. Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) System - Low Pressure CVD (LP CVD) Metal Organic CVD (MO CVD) 6. High Pressure oxidation systems 7. Chemical Etching Systems 8. Plasma Etchers 9. Reactive Ion Beam Etchers (RIBE) 10. Reactive Ion Etchers 11. RF Sputtering Systems 12. Direct Digital Control Furnaces 13. Ion - Implanters (Low/Medium/High Current) 14. Lithography Systems 15. Direct step on wafers/steppers 16. X-ray lithography system 17. E-beam mask making system 18. E-beam direct write system 19. Mask aligners 20. Mask Inspection Systems (Comparators) 21. Tape Automated Bounders 22. Laser Zappers