CUSTOMS - SOCIAL WELFARE SURCHARGE (SWS)

A.

AMENDMENT TO NOTIFICATION NO. 11/2018 – CUSTOMS, DATED 02.02.2018 (w.e.f. 24.07.2024)

S.No.

Description

Following goods are being exempted from levy of Social Welfare Surcharge

1.

Natural Graphite

2.

Natural sands

3.

Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite

4.

Strontium sulphate (natural ore)

5.

Copper ores and concentrates

6.

Cobalt ores and concentrates

7.

Tin ores and Concentrates

8.

Tungsten Ores and Concentrates

9.

Molybdenum ores and concentrates

10.

Zirconium ores and concentrates

11.

Hafnium Ores and concentrates

12.

Vanadium ores and concentrates

13.

Niobium or tantalum ores and concentrates

14.

Antimony Ores and Concentrates

15.

Tellurium

16.

Silicon, containing by weight not less than 99.99% of silicon

17.

Other silicon

18.

Selenium

19.

Alkali or alkaline earth metals, Rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or inter alloyed

20.

Silicon dioxide

21.

Potassium hydroxide

22.

Oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium or barium

23.

Cobalt oxides

24.

Cobalt hydroxides

25.

Commercial cobalt oxides

26.

Lithium oxide and hydroxide

27.

Vanadium oxides and hydroxides

28.

Germanium oxides

29.

Molybdenum oxides and hydroxides

30.

Antimony Oxides

31.

Cadmium oxide

32.

Chlorides of Nickel

33.

Strontium chloride

34.

Sulphates of Nickel

35.

Nitrates of potassium

36.

Lithium carbonates

37.

Strontium carbonate

38.

Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids of Beryllium and Rhenium

39.

Compounds, inorganic or organic of rare earth metals

40.

Bismuth citrate

41.

Artificial Graphite, colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite, preparations based on graphite or other carbon in form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semimanufactures

42.

Unwrought Tin

43.

Unwrought tungsten, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering

44.

Unwrought molybdenum, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering

45.

Unwrought tantalum, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering, powders

46.

Cobalt, unwrought

47.

Bismuth, unwrought

48.

Unwrought zirconium, powders, Containing less than 1 part hafnium to 500 parts zirconium by weight

49.

Unwrought antimony, powders

50.

Beryllium unwrought, powders

51.

Hafnium unwrought, waste and scrap, powders

52.

Rhenium unwrought

53.

Cadmium unwrought, Powders

54.

Cadmium, wrought

55.

Unwrought; Waste and scrap; powders of :-

(i) Gallium

(ii) Germanium

(iii) Indium

(iv) Niobium

(v) Vanadium