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Customs - Notifications (Tariff)11.10.2018

Further amends the notification No. 57/2017-Customs, dated the 30th June, 2017 [G.S.R. 798E)].

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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. 75/2018 – Customs New Delhi, the 11th October, 2018 G.S.R. (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 makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 57/2017- Customs, dated the 30th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide, number G.S.R. 798 (E), dated the 30th June, 2017, namely:- In the said notification, in the Table, for serial number 20 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be substituted, namely: - (1) “20 8517 62 90 All goods other than following goods, namely: - (2) (3) (4) 10% (5) - (a) Wrist wearable devices (commonly known as smart watches) (b) Optical transport equipment (c) Combination of one or more of Packet Optical Transport Product or Switch (POTP or POTS) (d) Optical Transport Network (OTN) products (e) IP Radios 21 8517 69 90 All goods other than following goods, namely: - 10% -” . (a) Soft switches and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment, namely, VoIP phones, media gateways, gateway controllers and session border controllers (b) Carrier Ethernet Switch, Packet Transport Node (PTN) products, Multiprotocol Label Switching- Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) products (c) Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) products 2. This notification shall be effective from the 12th October, 2018. [F.No.354/374/2018-TRU] (Gunjan Kumar Verma) Under Secretary to the Government of India Note: The principal notification No.57/2017-Customs, dated the 30th June, 2017 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide, number G.S.R. 798(E), dated the 30th June, 2017 and last amended, vide, notification No. 37/2018 -Customs, dated the 2nd April, 2018, published, vide, number G.S.R.325 (E), dated the 2nd April, 2018.

Source: Government of India — Customs - Notifications (Tariff), dated 11.10.2018. Text is machine-extracted for reference; the officially published version prevails. Not legal advice.

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1962201720188517

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