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Customs - Notifications (Tariff)30.12.2006

Preferential area imports - Further amends notification No.85/2004-Cus. dated 31st August, 2004.

Document Text

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART-II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (ii)] GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE ……… NEW DELHI, THE 30TH DECEMBER, 2006. 9 PAUSA, 1928(SAKA ) NOTIFICATION No. 131/2006-Customs 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, on 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. 85/2004-Customs, dated the 31st August, 2004, namely:- In the said notification, in the TABLE:- (i) after S.No.22 and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be inserted namely :- “22A 3907 70 00 All goods”; (ii) against S.No.27, for the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be substituted namely :- “27 4412 10 00 27A 4412 39 Plywood of bamboo, consisting solely of sheets of wood, each ply not exceeding 6mm thickness All goods”; (iii) S. No.33A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (iv) S. No. 34A, and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (v) S. No. 35A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (vi) against S. No. 36, and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be substituted, namely:- “36 7229 90 All goods other than wire of high speed steel’; (vii) S. No. 36A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (viii) After S.No.51 and the entries relating thereto, the following S.No. and entries shall be inserted:- 51A 8486 90 Parts of machinery, plant or for laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated and other (excluding furnaces, ovens equipment of heading 8514), the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, rectifying, sterilisings, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non- electric. distilling, domestic roasting, used for (ix) after S. No.56 and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and entries shall be inserted, namely :- “56A 8443 39 53 Staplers (stapling machines)”; (x) against S. No.61, and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely :- “61 8472 90 All goods other than addressing machines and address plate embossing machines”; (xi) S. No.61A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (xii) after S.No.69 and the entries relating thereto, the following S.No. and the entries shall be inserted namely :- “69A 8508 Industrial Vacuum cleaners and parts thereof”; (xiii) against S.No.72, - (a) for the entry in column (2), the entry “8443 997” shall be substituted; (b) for the entry in column (3), the entry “parts of goods falling under tariff item 8443 31 00 or 8443 32 00” shall be substituted; (xiv) S.No.72A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (xv) for S.No.73, and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be substituted namely :- “73 8523 40 10, 8523 40 20, 8523 40 30, 8523 40 60. 73A 8523 40 40 73B 8523 40 50 All goods Unrecorded Compact Disc (audio) Compact Disc readable”; (xvi) against S.No.74, for the entry in column (2), the entry “8528 72” shall be substituted; 2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of January, 2007. F.No. 528/5/2006-Cus (TU) (S. Bajaj) Under Secretary to the Government of India Note: The principal notification No. 85/2004-Customs, dated the 31st August, 2004, was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide G.S.R.560(E) dated the 31st August, 2004 and was last amended by notification No. 86/2006-Customs, dated the 30th August, 2006 [G.S.R. No.513(E), dated the 30th August, 2006].

Source: Government of India — Customs - Notifications (Tariff), dated 30.12.2006. Text is machine-extracted for reference; the officially published version prevails. Not legal advice.

HS Codes Referenced

192819622004200620073907441272298443847284868508851485238528

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