Exemption to specified machinery for use in silk industry - 023/88 - Customs -Tariff

Exemption to specified machinery for use in silk industry Notification No. 23/88-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 column (2) of the Table hereto annexed 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 for use in the silk industry, 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 35 per cent ad valorem ; and (b) the whole of the additional duty of customs leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975. THE TABLE S. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Automatic Hopper Feeder/Blending Hopper Feeder, Feeder with Automatic Quality Control (either with automatic quality weight or volume control/combined automatic weight) and volume control for silk card. 2. Rectilinear Combs. 3. Vogoreux Top/Silver Printing Machines. 4. Tow to Fibre/Top Converting Machine. 5. Top Bump Press. 6. Draw Frame/Roving Frame/Automatic Rubbing Frame/Bobbiners/Finishers. 7. Self-twist Spinning Machines/Sirospinning (2 Ply Spinning) Machines/Core Spinning Machines. 8. Fancy Yarn Twisting and Pattern machine. 9. Jumbo Hank Reeling Machine. 10. Yarn Brushing Machine. 11. Semi-automatic/Automatic Balling Machine, Labelling and Packaging Machine for hand Knitting/Crochet Yarn. 12. High Speed Inter-secting Rotary/Chain Pin Drawing Sets/GillBoxes. 13. Continues Yarn Baling, Relaxing Setting and Winding Machine. 14. Fibre Opening and blending Machine. 15. Raising/Brushing Machine. 16. Automatic Looms for Weaving Plain Plush Fabrics and Jacquard Plush Fabrics. 17. Continuous Milling and Scouring Machine. 18. Carding Sets. 19. Blender Defelter/Blender Defelter Red Breaker. 20. Hydraulic Flat Paper Press for Finishing of Fabrics (Both continuous and non-continuous). 21. Stenter (Multilayer Vertical Stenter) with or without heat setting Mechanism. 22. Hydraulic Flat Paper Press/Continuous Hydraulic Flat Paper Press. 23. Conversion Equipment for converting Shut Looms into Shuttleless Types. 24. Multi-needle Sewing machine. 25. Overlasting Stitch Sewing Machine for sewing selvedges of fabrics. 26. Silk Waste Processing Machine, namely :- Cocoon opener, Cutting machine, Degumming machine, Drying Chamber, Carding machine, Preparatory Machine. 27. Silk Opener.