Exemption to 15 pesticides - 015/88 - Customs -Tariff

Exemption to 15 pesticides Notification No. 15/88-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 pesticides, insecticides, fungicide and weedicide chemicals specified in the Table hereto annexed and falling under Chapter 29 or Chapter 38 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), when imported into India, from 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 25 per cent ad valorem . TABLE 1. Monocrotophos 2. Methyl Parathion 3. Dimethoate 4. BHC 5. Malathion 6. Endosulfan 7. Phorate 8. Dithane 9. Zineb 10. Maneb 11. Thiram 12. 2, 4-D 13. Butachlor 14. Benthiocarb 15. Isoproturon