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Customs - Notifications (Tariff)05.05.2020

Amends notification No. 18/2019-Customs dated 6th July, 2019 so as to increase effective rate of Road and Infrastructure Cess (RIC) collected as additional duty of customs on petrol and diesel by Rs. 8 per litre.

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[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)] GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE) Notification No. 21/2020-Customs New Delhi, the 5th May, 2020 G.S.R. (E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 111 of Finance Act, 2018 (13 of 2018), read with 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 makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 18/2019-Customs, dated the 6th July, 2019, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 475 (E), dated the 6th July, 2019, namely:- In the said notification, in the Table,- (i) against Sl. No. 1, for the entry in column (4), the entry “Rs. 18 per litre” shall be substituted; (ii) against Sl. No. 2, for the entry in column (4), the entry “Rs. 18 per litre” shall be substituted; 2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 6th May, 2020. [F. No. 354/123/2014 –TRU (Pt-1)] (Gaurav Singh) Deputy Secretary to the Government of India Note. - The principal notification No. 18/2019-Customs, dated the 6th July, 2019 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide, number 475 (E), dated the 6th July, 2019 and last amended by notification No. 15/2020-Customs dated 13th March, 2020 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide, number G.S.R. 173(E), dated the 13th March, 2020.

Source: Government of India — Customs - Notifications (Tariff), dated 05.05.2020. Text is machine-extracted for reference; the officially published version prevails. Not legal advice.

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