Food processing and packing machines - 125/86 - Customs -Tariff

Food processing and packing machines Notification No. 125/86-Cus. Dated 17-2-1986 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 under Chapter 84 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 thereon which is specified in the said First Schedule as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of 10% ad valorem ; and (b) the whole of the additional duty leviable thereon under Section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act. TABLE S. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Food processing machines, namely :— Fruit and vegetable cutting, coring, cubing, slicing, seeding, clearing, removing and stem removing machines. 2. Maearoni, noodles, sphagetti, vermicelli, manufacturing machinery. 3. Vacum fillers. 4. Sauce filling machine. 5. Homogenisers. 6. Meat processing machines, namely — mincing, deboning, mixing, cutting, chopping, flaking and skinning machines (industrial types). 7. Meat tendering equipment. 8. Hamburgers and meat ball forming machines. 9. Lines for battering and frying of meat items. 10. Equipment for production of mechanical deboned meat. 11. Automatic meat filling machine with automatic weighing arrangement. 12. Coated/animated/lined carton systems. 13. Retortable pouch system. 14. Sta-lox system. 15. Tray-seal system. 16. Stand-up pouch system. 17. FFS with vacuumising and inert gas flushing. 18. Gas flush packing system for flexible packages. 19. Gas and vacuum packaging system for flexible packages. 20. Automatic bottle labelling machine. 21. Coding, marking including ink jet printing machine other than over-printing machines. 22. Check weighing volumetric/gravimetric fillers. 23. Aseptic packaging and/or processing machinery with or without presterilising/pasturising, comprising, forming, filling, sealing, coding/marking fully automatic. 24. Filling and sealing machines for laminated collapsible tubes. 25. Filling for thermo-formed trays and top sealing machines. 26. Filling and sealing system for bag-in-box with or without vacuum/gas flush system. 27. Flat carton system for bagged items and solid products in pouches. 28. Case packing machine. 29. High speed automatic wrappers — other than cigarette pack wrappers. 30. Stretch blow moulding machine. 31. On line inspection systems for filled packages. 32. Multi layer coater/extruding machine. 33. Continuous vacuum thermo-forming machine other than blister packaging for tablets. 34. Plastic and laminate collapsible tube making machine. 35. Bag-in-box system. 2. This notification shall come into force on the 28th day of February, 1986 and shall be in force upto and inclusive of the 31st day of March, 1986.