Seeks to increase import tariff rate on specified electronic goods under First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act by invoking section 8A (1) of the Customs Tariff Act. - 91/2017 - Customs -Tariff

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE) Notification No. 91/2017 Customs New Delhi, the 14th December, 2017 G.S.R. 1514 (E).- WHEREAS the Central Government on being satisfied that the import duty leviable on certain goods and parts thereof, falling under chapters 85 , 90 and 94 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) , should be increased and that circumstances exist which render it necessary to take immediate action. NOW, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 8A of the said Customs Tariff Act , the Central Government, hereby directs that the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act , shall be amended in the following manner, namely:- In the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, - (a) in Section XVI, in Chapter 85 , - (i) for the entry in column (4) occurring against the tariff item 8516 50 00, the entry 20% shall be substituted; (ii) for the entry in column (4) occurring against the tariff items 8517 12 10 and 8517 12 90, the entry 15% shall be substituted; (iii) for the entry in column (4) occurring against the tariff item 8521 90 90, the entry 15% shall be substituted; (iv) for the entry in column (4) occurring against the all the tariff items of sub-heading 8525 80, the entry 15% shall be substituted; (v) for the entry in column (4) occurring against the tariff item 8528 71 00, the entry 20% shall be substituted; (vi) for the entry in column (4) occurring against all the tariff items of sub-heading 8528 72, the entry 20% shall be substituted; (vii) for the entry in column (4) occurring against the tariff item 8539 50 00, the entry 20% shall be substituted; (b) in Section XVIII, in Chapter 90 , for the entry in column (4) occurring against the all the tariff items of sub-heading 9028 30, the entry 15% shall be substituted; and (c) in Section XX, in Chapter 94 , for the entry in column (4) occurring against all the tariff items of heading 9405 the entry 20% shall be substituted. [F.No.354/20/2017-TRU] (Gunjan Kumar Verma) Under Secretary to the Government of India