GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
Notification No. 28/95-Customs
Date: 16-3-1995
Preferential rates of duty for specified goods imported from Mauritius, Seychelles or Tonga
G.S.R. 157(E).- 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 (3) of the Table annexed hereto and falling within Chapter, heading No. or sub-heading No. of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), specified in column (2) of the said Table, when imported into India from Mauritius, Seychelles or Tonga, 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 specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table:
Provided that the importer proves to the satisfaction of the proper officer of customs that the goods in respect of which the exemption under this notification is claimed are being imported in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Tariff (Determination of Origin of other Preferential Areas) Rules, 1977, published with the notification of the Government of India in the Department of Revenue and Banking (Revenue Wing) No. 99-Customs, dated the 1st July, 1977.
Table
|
S. No. |
Chapter or heading No. or sub-heading No. |
Description of goods |
Rate |
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
|
1. |
0904.20 |
Unground chillies |
22.5 per cent ad valorem |
|
2. |
0908.20 |
Unground mace |
22.5 per cent ad valorem |
|
3. |
0910.10 |
Unground ginger |
22.5 per cent ad valorem |
|
4. |
12.11 |
Plants and parts of plants used primarily in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
5. |
1301.90 |
Gums, Benjamin and Damar |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
6. |
25.30 |
Battery grade manganese-di-oxide |
15 per cent ad valorem |
|
7. |
2907.12 |
Cresylic acid |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
8. |
29.35 |
Sulpha Drugs |
24 per cent ad valorem |
|
9. |
2939.61, 2939.62, 2939.63, 2939.69, 2939.90 or 2939.99 |
Alkaloids used solely or predominantly as drugs |
24 per cent ad valorem |
|
10. |
29 |
Pharmaceutical chemicals, namely, chemicals having prophylactic or therapeutic value and used solely or predominantly as drugs, other than,-
|
24 per cent ad valorem |
|
11. |
3006.60 |
Medicaments (including veterinary medicaments) |
Nil |
|
12. |
3204.90 |
Optical bleaching agents |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
13. |
3301.90 |
Natural essential oils of citronella, cinnamon and cinnamon leaf |
25 per cent ad valorem |
|
14. |
3402.20 |
Organic surface-active agents |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
15. |
3402.90 |
Organic surface-active preparations |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
16. |
3812.20, 3812.30 |
Prepared rubber chemicals |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
17. |
38.12 |
Plasticisers not elsewhere specified |
20 per cent ad valorem |
|
18. |
3815.19 |
Compound catalysts |
15 per cent ad valorem |
|
19. |
38.24 |
Water treatment chemicals, not elsewhere specified |
20 per cent ad valorem |
Notification No. 28/95-Cus., dated 16-3-1995 as amended by Notifications No. 175/95-Cus., dated 29-12-1995; No. 45/96-Cus., dated 23-7-1996; No. 17/97-Cus., dated 1-3-1997, No.27/99-Cus., dated 28-2-1999, No.135/2001-Cus., dated 31.12.2001 and No.24/2002 dated 01.03.2002.
