Exempts Handicraft and certain goods of cottage industry - 17/2011-Central Excise - Central Excise - Tariff

Recinded vide Notification No. 9/2017-Central Excise Dated 30th June, 2017 w.e.f. 1st day of July, 2017.

Notification No. 17/2011-Central Excise

New Delhi, the 1st March, 2011

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance ( Department of Revenue) no. 76/86- Central Excise, published vide G.S.R 168 (E), dated the 10th February, 1986, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts goods of the description specified in column (2) of the Table below and falling in the First schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 ( 5 of 1986), from the whole of the duty of excise leviable thereon under the said Tariff Act.

Table

S.No.	Description of the excisable goods
(1)	(2)
1.	1[Handicrafts, other than the handicrafts falling under heading 7113 of the said Schedule to the said Act].
2.	Scented Chunnam (Lime)
3.	Vibhuthi (Thiruneeru)
4.	Contraceptives
5.	Enamelware
6.	Agriculture grade pyrites
7.	Coke-oven gas and blast furnace gas
8.	Sludge obtained in the sewage or effluent treatment plant belonging to municipal corporation, local authority or an industrial unit
9.	(a) Animal drawn vehicles manufactured out of iron sheets, rods, bars, angles or wooden planks; and (b) the following parts of animal drawn vehicles:     (i) Wheels; and     (ii) Axles.
10.	Erasers
11.	Spent Fuller’s Earth

[F. No. 334/3/2011-TRU]

(Sanjeev Kumar Singh)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

 

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Notes:-

1. Substituted vide Not. 29/2016 - Dated 26-7-2016  before it was read as, "Handicrafts"