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[Indian Customs Tariff Notification] : Seeks to notify the basic customs duty rates [under notification No. 69/2011-Customs dated 29th July 2011 (India-Japan CEPA)] on tariff item 84082020 and tariff item 87084000 at 6.8% and 8.75%, respectively w.e.f. 01st January 2015.
[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. 36/ 2014 - Customs
New Delhi, dated the 29th December, 2014
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.69/2011-Customs dated the 29th July, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 593 (E), dated the 29th July, 2011, namely:-
In the said notification, in the Table,-
(a) against S. No. 521, for the entry in column (4), the entry "6.8" shall be substituted;
(b) against S. No. 746, for the entry in column (4), the entry "8.75" shall be substituted.
2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of January, 2015.
[F. No. 354/199/2009-TRU]
(Akshay Joshi)
Under Secretary to Government of India
Note.- The principal notification No. 69/2011-Customs, dated the 29th July, 2011, was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 593 (E), dated the 29th July, 2011 and was last amended vide notification No. 09/2014-Customs, dated the 01st of April, 2014, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 255 (E), dated the 01st of April, 2014.
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[Indian Customs SG Notification] : Seeks to levy safeguard duty on imports of Sodium Citrate, for a period of three years
[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. 04/2014-Customs (SG)
New Delhi, the 31st December, 2014
G.S.R. (E). – Whereas, in the matter of import of Sodium Citrate (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under tariff item 2918 15 20 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the Customs Tariff Act), the Director General (Safeguard), in his final findings, published vide number G.S.R. 663 (E), dated the 16th September, 2014, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), has come to the conclusion that increased imports of Sodium Citrate into India has caused and threatened to cause further serious injury to the domestic producers of Sodium Citrate, necessitating the imposition of safeguard duty on imports of Sodium Citrate into India, and accordingly has recommended the imposition of safeguard duty on imports of the subject goods into India.
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 8B of the Customs Tariff Act, read with rules 12, 14 and 17 of the Customs Tariff (Identification and Assessment of Safeguard Duty) Rules, 1997, the Central Government after considering the aforesaid findings of the Director General (Safeguards), hereby imposes on Sodium Citrate falling under tariff item 2918 15 20 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, when imported into India, a safeguard duty at the following rate, namely:-
(a) thirty per cent. ad valorem when imported during the period from 31st December, 2014 to 30th December, 2015 (both days inclusive);
(b) twenty per cent. ad valorem , when imported during the period from 31st December, 2015 to 30th December, 2016 (both days inclusive); and
(c) ten per cent. ad valorem , when imported during the period from 31st December, 2016 to 30th December, 2017 (both days inclusive).
2. Nothing contained in this notification shall apply to imports of Sodium Citrate from countries notified as developing countries under clause (a) of sub-section (6) of section 8B of the Customs Tariff Act, other than the People’s Republic of China.
[F.No.354/229/2014-TRU]
(Akshay Joshi)
Under Secretary to the Government of India