Machineries/Equipments - 159/86 - Customs -Tariff

Machineries/Equipments Notification No. 159/86-Cus. Dated 1-3-1986 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 44/84-Customs, dated the 1st March, 1984, 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 Chapters 82 or 84 or 85 or 90 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and designed for use in the manufacture of gem and jewellery, by the registered exporters of gem and jewellery and cooperative societies of goldsmiths and artisans, 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 twenty-five per cent ad valorem; and (b) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975 THE TABLE Sl. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. All types of dichroscopes refractometres and accessories 2. All types of gauges for measuring size of diamonds or precious stones jewellery 3. All types of loupes and lenses 4. All types of spectroscopes and accessories 5. Automatic machines for making bracelets 6. Automatic soldering machine with motor 7. Balancing machine 8. Ball burnishing vibration (for polishing chains) 9. Boart crushers 10. Bruting or girdling machine - single and double spindle 11. Bulls eye condenser with stand 12. Calibrating machine 13. Carving machine 14. Centrifugal/Vacuum casting machine, manual/automatic 15. Ceres diamond probe or equivalent 16. Chain hammering machine (for decoration of chains) 17. Cleaver's Box with shell and lead block 18. Clorimeter (for rough diamonds) 19. Colour grader 20. Colour master 21. Combined caliberating and beveling or chamforing machine 22. Combined conveyor belt and wire annealing furnace with controlled atmosphere 23. Complete automatic chain making machine 24. Continuous casting machine of gem and jewellery 25. Dops of all types 26. Dial micrometer 27. Diamond compound kit 28. Diamond counting machines 29. Diamondlite 30. Dopping press or machine 31. Drilling machines 32. Electroplating units for flash plating 33. Faceting machine or Faceter 34. Forming machines 35. Gem carving machines 36. Gem minilab 37. Gem print 38. Gem slicing machine 39. Gem testing lamps 40. Gluing apparatus 41. Grinding machine 42. Hydrogen welding machine with flame temperature high frequency 43. Jewellers' microscope-stereo-zoom type and accessories 44. Lapping machine 45. Multiple stones bearers 46. Multiple wire drawing machine with diamond dies 47. Pearl drilling machines/pearl processing machines 48. Paint grinding machine 49. Polishing machines 50. Polishing tangs 51. Powder rollers 52. Precious balance electrically operated/hand weighing balances weighing in carats and grams (giving minimum reading capacity 0.05 gm or less) 53. Proportion scope/proportion metres 54. Quartz lamps for testing precious stones 55. Roundiam (roundist machine) 56. Saws, blades, laps, grinding wheels, dressers, discs, diamond impregnated or otherwise specially designed for machines 57. Sawing blades for diamond sawing machines 58. Sawing machines 59. Sawing spindles 60. Scaifes 61. Scaife cutting lathe 62. Scouring machine 63. Semi-automatic stone setting machines 64. Shaping machines 65. Sieves for diamonds, pearls or precious and semi-precious stones 66. Slab and trim saws 67. Steel pots, steel counter pins 68. Strip runner 69. Suction equipment for diamond 70. The illuminator polariscope 71. Thesonbip 72. Tumbling machines 73. Tweezers 74. Wire runner