Notification No. 131/2006-Cus Dated 30/12/2006

Amendments in the Notification No. 85/2004-Cus.- 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. 85/2004-Customs, dated the 31st August, 2004, namely:-  

 In the said notification, in the TABLE:-

 

(i) after S.No.22 and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be inserted namely :-

  

 

“22A

 

 

3907 70 00

 

All goods”;

 

(ii) against S.No.27, for the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be substituted namely :-

                                               

 

“27

 

 

4412 10 00

 

Plywood of bamboo, consisting solely of sheets of wood, each ply not exceeding 6mm thickness

27A

4412 39

All goods”;

 

(iii) S. No.33A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

 

(iv) S. No. 34A, and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

 

(v) S. No. 35A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

 

(vi) against S. No. 36, and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be substituted, namely :-

                                                 

 

 

“36

 

 

7229 90

 

All goods other than wire of high speed steel’;

 

(vii) S. No. 36A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

 

(viii) After S.No.51 and the entries relating thereto, the following S.No. and entries shall be inserted:-

 

51A

8486 90

Parts of machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilisings, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric.

 

 

(ix) after S. No.56 and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and entries shall be inserted, namely :-

                                               

 

“56A

 

 

8443 39 53

 

Staplers (stapling machines)”;

 

(x) against S. No.61, and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely :-

                                               

 

“61

 

 

8472 90

 

All goods other than addressing machines and address plate embossing machines”;

 

(xi) S. No.61A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

 

(xii) after S.No.69 and the entries relating thereto, the following S.No. and the entries shall be inserted namely :-

  

 

“69A

 

 

8508

 

Industrial Vacuum cleaners and parts thereof”;

 

(xiii) against S.No.72, -

 

(a)    for the entry in column (2), the entry “8443 997” shall  be substituted;

(b)    for the entry in column (3), the entry “parts of goods falling under tariff item 8443 31 00 or 8443 32 00” shall  be substituted;

 

(xiv) S.No.72A and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;

 

(xv) for S.No.73, and the entries relating thereto, the following S. No. and the entries shall be substituted namely :-

  

“73

 

8523 40 10,

8523 40 20,

8523 40 30,

8523 40 60.

All goods

73A

8523 40 40

Unrecorded Compact Disc (audio)

73B

8523 40 50

Compact Disc readable”;

 

(xvi)  against S.No.74, for the entry in column (2), the entry “8528 72” shall  be substituted;

 

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

F.No. 528/5/2006-Cus(TU)  

(S. Bajaj)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

 

 

Note: The principal notification No. 85/2004-Customs, dated the 31st August, 2004, was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide G.S.R.560(E) dated the 31st August, 2004 and was last amended by notification No. 86/2006-Customs, dated the 30th August, 2006 [G.S.R. No.513(E), dated the 30th August, 2006].