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Customs Notification No-132/2006 dated 30.12.2006 
Amendments in the notification - exempt certain goods from the whole of the duty of customs leviable (Changes in Customs Tariff)

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 amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.24/2005-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2005, namely:-

In the said notification

(i) in the opening paragraph for the words, figures and letters “following goods, falling under the heading, sub-heading or tariff-item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and specified in column (2) of the Table below”, the words “following goods of the description as specified in column (3) of the Table below and falling under the heading, sub-heading or tariff-item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table” shall be substituted;

(ii) for the table, the following table shall be substituted, namely:-

Table

Sr. No. Heading, sub-heading or tariff item Description
1 2 3
1 3818 00 All goods
2. 8443 31 00 or 8443 32 00 All goods
3 8443 39 (a)Electrostatic photocopying apparatus, operating by reproducing the original image directly onto the copy (direct process ); and (b)Photocopying apparatus, other than electrostatic, incorporating an optical system
4 8443 99 Parts and accessories of the following goods namely(a) all goods falling under tariff items 8443 3100, and 8443 3200; (b) Electrostatic photocopying apparatus, operating by reproducing the original image directly onto the copy (direct process ); and(c) Photocopying apparatus, other than electrostatic, incorporating an optical system
5 8456 90 10 or 8486 20 Machine tools for dry etching pattern on semi conductor material
6 8469 00 10 All goods
7 8470 All goods
8 8471 All goods
9 8473 21 00 or 8473 29 00 All goods
10 8473 30 All goods
11 8473 50 00 All goods
12 8486 20 00 Apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitized semiconductor materials
13 8517 All goods
14 8519 50 00 All goods
15 8523 (a)All prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other phenomena, other than cards incorporating a magnetic stripe(b)Recorded media for reproducing phenomena other than sound or image
16 8525 60 All goods
17 8528 41 or 8528 51 or 8528 61 All goods
18 8529 90 90 Parts and accessories of 8528 41 or 8528 51 or 8528 61
19 8531 20 00 All goods
20 8532 All goods
21 8533 All goods
22 8534 00 00 All goods
23 8541 All goods
24 8542 or 8523 52 Electronic Integrated circuits
25 8543 10 10 or 8486 20 Ion Implanters for doping semi conductor material
26 8543 70 11 or 8523 59 Proximity cards and Tags
27 8543 90 or 8548 90 Electronic Microassemblies
28 8544 70 All goods
29 9013 80 10 All goods
30 9013 90 10 All goods
31 9026 All goods
32 9027 20 00 All goods
33 9027 30 All goods
34 9027 50 All goods
35 9027 80 All goods
36 9030 40 00 All goods
37 9030 82 00 All goods
38 9031 41 00 All goods
39 All chapters All goods for the manufacture of goods covered by S.Nos. 1 to 38 above, provided that the importer follows the procedure set out in the Customs (Import of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty for Manufacture of Excisable Goods) Rules, 1996.”.

2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1st January, 2007.

[F.No.528/5/2006-Cus(TU)]

(S. Bajaj)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note. - The principal notification No. 24/2005-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2005 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R.122(E), dated the 1st March, 2005.