Customs duty Notification Amendment for Non-Least Developed Countries under SAFTA

[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. 68 /2012-Customs 

 New Delhi, the 31^st December, 2012

G.S.R 953 (E).” In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 125/2011-Customs, dated the 30^th December, 2011 [G.S.R.929 (E), dated the 30th December, 2011] except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts,-

(i)     all goods, other than the goods specified in TABLE II,  of the description specified in column (3) of the TABLE I hereto annexed and falling under the Chapter, Heading, Sub-heading or Tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), and specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said TABLE, from so much of the duty of customs leviable thereon as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the aforesaid TABLE;

(ii)   all goods of the description specified in column (3) of the TABLE II hereto annexed and falling under the Chapter, Heading, Sub-heading or Tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), and specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said TABLE, from so much of the duty of customs leviable thereon as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the aforesaid TABLE,

when imported into India from a country listed in APPENDIX to this notification:

Provided that the importer proves to the satisfaction of the Deputy Commissioner of Customs or Assistant Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be, that the goods in respect of which the benefit of this exemption is claimed, are of the origin of the country listed in the APPENDIX in accordance with the Rules of Determination of Origin of Goods under the Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), 2006, published in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department Revenue) No 75/2006-Customs(NT) dated the 30^th June,2006.

2.         Nothing contained in sub-paragraph (i) and (ii) of paragraph 1 of this notification shall apply to goods specified in TABLE III.

3.         This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of January 2013.

Customs duty Notification Amendment for Non-Least Developed Countries under SAFTA