Exempts tea & tea waste from additional customs duty

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

May 14, 2003

Notification No. 78/2003-Customs

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 tea and tea waste, when imported into India, from so much of the additional duty leviable thereon under sub- section (1) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 ( 51 of 1975 ) as is equivalent to the additional duty of excise leviable thereon under section 157 of the Finance Act, 2003 (32 of 2003).

V. Sivasubramanian
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India

F.No. B-6/1/2003-TRU