Customs Non-Tariff Notification 103/2008

Jurisdiction of Dispute Resolution Panel-Income Tax Order No.3 Delhi High Court directs Army & Air Force to grant Permanent Commission to Women Officers Employment of washing process in the manufacture of agglomerates etc from imported plastic waste and scrap-SEZ Instruction No.48 Haryana Government imposes surcharge ranging from 0.25 per cent to 0.7 per cent on VAT Service Tax Notification No. 17/2010 which exempts the taxable service providing packaged or canned software, intended for single use and packed accordingly amended-Service Tax Notification No.18 Procurement, Import and Export of Prohibited and Restricted Goods by SEZ Units-SEZ Instruction No. 47 Tractors are chargeable to tractor cess in terms of the Tractor Cess Rules, 1992 read with the IDRA Act, 1951-Central Excise Circular No. 916 Authority for Advance Ruling rules the amounts received/receivable by Technopromexport from NTPC under contract for Offshore supply of all plant and equipment including mandatory spares are not liable to tax in India under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and DTAA between India and Russia-AIT-2010-79-AAR whether Cess levied under section 5 of Textile Committees Act, 1963 is includable as a component of CVD-AIT-2010-78-HC Export warehousing –Extension of facility at Gautam Budh Nagar in UP and Nagpur in Maharashtra-Central Excise Circular No. 917 Implementation of the provisions of COTP Act, 2003 and The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008- Empowering the Customs & Central Excise Officers-Central Excise Circular No. 918 Toilet linen and kitchen linen, of terry toweling or similar terry fabric, of cotton and of other textile materials added in Focus Product Scheme for exports made after 1st Jan 2010-DGFT PN 46 TDS on payment of interest on time deposits under Section 194A of the Income Tax Act by banks following Core-Branch Banking Solutions software-Income Tax Circular No.3 Tariff value for import of Brass scrap is 3732 and for poppy seeds 4640-Customs Non-Tariff Notification No.19 Duty Credit Scrips can also be used / debited towards payment of Customs Duties in case of EO defaults under Authorizations issued under Chapters 4 and 5 of the Policy-DGFT Notification No.32 SC Ruling-the nature of roll over premium charge incurred by the assessee as also the scope and applicability of Section 43A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, in the context of such charges-we find no merit in the contention of the assessee that roll over charges have nothing to do with the fluctuation in the rate of exchange-AIT-2010-75-SC Pre-authentication of excise invoices dispensed with Excise duty on Goggles and OTS cans hiked to 10 per cent av gas and mosquito net impregnated with insecticides subjected to 4 per cent excise Outright exemption from additional duty of customs (of 4%) leviable under sub-section (5) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 to goods imported in a pre-packaged form and intended for retail sale Benefit of allowing Cenvat credit to be reversed on proportionate basis (when common inputs are used for the manufacture of dutiable and exempt products) extended retrospectively Bad News for flat bookers-unless the entire consideration for the property is paid after the completion of construction (i.e. after issuance of completion certificate by the competent authority), the activity of construction would be deemed to be a taxable service provided by the builder/promoter/developer to the prospective buyer and the service tax would be charged accordingly Bad News for ladies-sanitary napkins & kids diapers subjected to 10 per cent excise excise duty @ 4% imposed on specified IT products like microprocessor other than motherboards, floppy disc drives, CD-Rom drive etc when these items are meant for external use with a computer or laptop as a plug-in device Packaged software or canned software exempted from excise excise duty on Cartons, boxes and cases, of corrugated paper or paperboard manufactured by Standalone manufacturers lowered from 8% to 4% all ceramic tiles, whether manufactured by using electricity for firing the kiln or not, will attract a single excise duty rate of 10% process of drawing or redrawing of aluminium tubes and pipes as amounting to " manufacture" Excise duty on replaceable kits of all domestic water filters except those operating on RO technology reduced from 8% to 4% Excise duty exemption on parts, components and accessories of mobile handsets including cellular phones extended to parts of two accessories namely, battery chargers and hands-free headphones of these devices.

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Schedule 82-97

Notification No. 103/2008 - CUSTOMS (N.T.)

New Delhi, dated the 29th August, 2008

G.S.R. (E). In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 75 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), sub-section (2) of section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), and section 93A and sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) read with rules 3 and 4 of the Customs, Central Excise Duties and Service Tax Drawback Rules, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules) and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.68/2007-Customs (N.T.), dated the 16th July, 2007 [GSR 485 (E), dated the 16th July, 2007] except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby determines the rates of drawback as specified in the Schedule annexed hereto (hereinafter referred to as the said Schedule) subject to the following notes and conditions, namely:-

Notes and conditions:

(1) The tariff items and descriptions of goods in the said Schedule are aligned with the tariff items and descriptions of goods in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975(51 of 1975) at the four-digit level only. The descriptions of goods given at the six digit or eight digit or modified six or eight or ten digits are in several cases not aligned with the descriptions of goods given in the said First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975

(2) The General Rules for the Interpretation of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975 shall mutatis mutandis apply for classifying the export goods listed in the said Schedule.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the said Schedule, all artware or handicraft items shall be classified under the heading of artware or handicraft (of constituent material) as mentioned in the relevant Chapters.

(4) The figures shown in columns (4) and (6) in the Schedule refer to the rate of drawback expressed as a percentage of the free on board ( f.o.b.) value or the rate per unit quantity of the export goods, as the case may be.

(5) The figures shown in columns (5) and (7) in the said Schedule refer to the maximum amount of drawback that can be availed of per unit specified in column (3).

(6) The figures shown under the drawback rate and drawback cap appearing below the column “Drawback when Cenvat facility has not been availed” refer to the total drawback (customs, central excise and service tax component put together) allowable and those appearing under the column “Drawback when Cenvat facility has been availed” refer to the drawback

allowable under the customs component. The difference between the two columns refers to the

central excise and service tax component of drawback. If the rate indicated is the same in both the columns, it shall mean that the same pertains to only customs component and is available irrespective of whether the exporter has availed of Cenvat or not.

(7) Drawback at the rates specified in the said Schedule shall be applicable only if the procedural requirements for claiming drawback as specified in rules 11, 12 and 13 of the said rules, unless otherwise relaxed by the competent authority, are satisfied.

(8) The rates of drawback specified in the said Schedule shall not be applicable to export of a commodity or product if such commodity or product is-

(a) manufactured partly or wholly in a warehouse under section 65 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962);

(b) manufactured or exported in discharge of export obligation against an Advance Licence or Advance Authorisation issued under the Duty Exemption Scheme of the relevant Export and Import Policy or the Foreign Trade Policy:

Provided that where exports are made against Advance Licences issued on or after the 1st April, 1997, in discharge of export obligations in terms of notification No. 31/97 - Customs, dated the 1st April, 1997, or against Duty Free Replenishment Certificate Licence issued in terms of notification No. 48/2000-Customs, dated the 25th April, 2000, or against Duty Free Replenishment Certificate Licence issued in terms of notification No. 46/2002-Customs, dated the 22nd April, 2002, or against Duty Free Replenishment Certificate Licence issued in terms of notification No. 90/2004-Customs, dated the 10th September, 2004, drawback at the rate equivalent to Central Excise allocation of rate of drawback specified in the said Schedule shall be admissible subject to the conditions specified therein;

(c) manufactured or exported by a unit licensed as hundred per cent. Export Oriented Unit in terms of the provisions of the relevant Export and Import Policy and the Foreign Trade Policy;

(d) manufactured or exported by any of the units situated in free trade zones or export processing zones or special economic zones;

(e) manufactured or exported by availing the rebate of duty paid on materials used in the manufacture or processing of such commodity or product in terms of rule 18 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002;

(f) manufactured or exported in terms of sub-rule (2) of rule 19 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002;

(g) manufactured or exported availing of the facility under the Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme as contained in paragraph 7.14, read with paragraph 7.17 of the Export and Import Policy 1997-2002 or manufactured or exported availing of the facility under the Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme as contained in paragraph 4.3 of the Export and Import Policy 2002-2007, notified under section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992), read with paragraph 4.37 of the Hand Book of Procedures (Volume 1) issued in pursuance of the provisions of paragraph 2.4 of the said

policy or manufactured or exported availing of the facility under the Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme as contained in paragraph 4.3 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2004-2009, notified under section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992), read with paragraph 4.37 of the Hand Book of Procedures (Volume 1) issued in pursuance of the provisions of paragraph 2.4 of the said policy.

(9) Where the export product is not specifically covered by the description of goods in the said Schedule, the rate of drawback may be fixed, on an application by an individual manufacturer or exporter in accordance with the Customs, Central Excise Duties and Service Tax Drawback Rules, 1995.

(10) The rates of drawback specified against the various tariff items in the said Schedule in specific terms or on ad valorem basis, unless otherwise specifically provided, are inclusive of drawback for packing materials used, if any.

(11) The term “dyed”, wherever used in the said Schedule in relation to textile materials, shall include yarn or piece dyed or predominantly printed or coloured in the body.

(12) Wherever specific rates have been provided against tariff item in the Schedule, the drawback shall be payable only if the amount is one per cent or more of free on board value, except where the amount of drawback per shipment exceeds five hundred rupees.

(13) The expressions “when Cenvat facility has not been availed”, used in the said Schedule, shall mean that the exporter shall satisfy the following conditions, namely:-

(i) The exporter shall declare, and if necessary, establish to the satisfaction of the Assistant Commissioner of Customs or Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or Deputy Commissioner of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, that no Cenvat facility has been availed for any of the inputs or input services used in the manufacture of the export product;

(ii) if the goods are exported under bond or claim for rebate of duty of central excise, a certificate from the Superintendent of Customs or Superintendent of Central Excise in-charge of the factory of production, to the effect that no Cenvat facility has been availed for the goods under export, is produced:

Provided that the certificate regarding non-availment of Cenvat facility shall not be required in the case of exports of handloom products or handicrafts (including handicrafts of brass artware) or finished leather and other export products which are unconditionally exempt from the duty of central excise.

(14) Whenever a composite article is exported for which any specific rate has not been provided in the said Schedule, the rates of drawback applicable to various constituent materials can be extended to the composite article according to net content of such materials on the basis of a self-declaration to be furnished by the exporter to this effect and in cases of doubt or where there is any information contrary to the declarations, the proper officer of customs shall cause a verification of such declarations.

(15) The term ‘article of leather’ in Chapter 42 of the said Schedule shall mean any article wherein 60% or more of the outer visible surface area (excluding shoulder straps or handles or fur skin trimming, if any) is of leather notwithstanding that such article is made of leather and any other material.

(16) The term “dyed” in relation to fabrics and yarn of cotton, shall include “bleached or mercerized or printed or mélange.”

(17) The term “dyed” in relation to textile materials in Chapters 54 and 55, shall include “printed or bleached”.

(18) In respect of the tariff items appearing in Chapter 64 of the said Schedule, leather shoes, boots or half boots for adult shall comprise the following sizes, namely: -

(a) French point or Paris point or Continental Size above 33;

(b) English or UK adult size 1 and above;

(19) In respect of the tariff items appearing in Chapter 64 of the said Schedule, leather shoes, boots or half boots for children shall comprise the following sizes, namely: -

(a) French point or Paris point or Continental Size upto 33;

(b) English or UK children size upto 13;

2. All claims for duty drawback shall be filed with reference to the tariff items and descriptions of goods shown in columns 1 and 2 of the said Schedule respectively.

3. This notification shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 2008.

[F.No.609/40/2008-DBK]

(Najib Shah)
JOINT SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA