Notification No. 50 /2017-Customs Dated 30/06/2017
Seeks to supersede notification No. 12/2012- Customs dated 17.03.2012 and prescribes effective rates of customs duty and IGST for goods imported into India
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) and sub-section (12) of section 3, of Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 12/2012 -Customs, dated the 6[17th March, 2012] old [17th March, 2017] published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 185 (E) dated the 6[17th March, 2012] old [ 17th March, 2017], 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 the goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below or column (3) of the said Table read with the relevant List appended hereto, as the case may be, and falling within the Chapter, heading, sub-heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, as are specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, when imported into India,-
(a) from so much of the duty of customs leviable thereon under the said First Schedule as is in excess of the amount calculated at the standard rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table; and
(b) from so much of integrated tax leviable thereon under sub-section (7) of section 3 of said Customs Tariff Act, read with section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017) as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (5) of the said Table,
subject to any of the conditions, specified in the Annexure to this notification, the condition number of which is mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (6) of the said Table:
|
S.No. |
Chapter or |
Description of goods |
Standard |
Integrated Goods and Services Tax
|
Condition |
|
495. |
8507 |
Batteries for electrically operated
vehicles, including two and three wheeled electric motor vehicles. Explanation: For the purposes of this entry, "electrically operated vehicles" means vehicles which are run solely on electrical energy derived from an external source or from one or more electrical batteries fitted to such road vehicles and shall include electric motor assisted cycle rickshaw driven by rechargeable solar batteries, also known as ‘soleckshaw’. |
15% | - | 9 and 72 |
| 528 A. |
8507 |
Battery pack for use in the manufacture of electrically operated vehicle or hybrid vehicle | 15% | - | 9 |