Notification No 19/2019 Customs date on 6th July, 2019

 

CUSTOMS Notification No 19 of 2019 dated 6th July, 2019

  

 Seeks to exempt specified defense equipment and their parts from Basic Customs Duty for a period of 5 years 

The extract of CUSTOMS Notification No. 19/2019- CUSTOMS is given below: 

 Notification No. 19/2019-CUSTOMS

 

 [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. 19/ 2019-Customs

 

New Delhi, the 6th July, 2019

 

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, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below and falling within the chapter, heading, sub-heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, when imported into India by the Ministry of Defence, Government of India or the defence forces, from the whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon, subject to the following conditions, namely:-

 

(a) an officer not below the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Defence certifies,

 

(i)       the quantity, description and technical specifications of the imported goods; and

 

(ii)      that the said goods are intended for the purpose of and use by the defence forces only and recommends the grant of exemption to the imported goods;

 

(b)the importer shall, at the time of import, furnish the said certificate to the Deputy Commissioner of Customs or the Assistant Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be.

 

 

 

Table

Sl.

Chapter or

Description of goods

No.

Heading or

 

 

Sub-heading

 

 

or tariff item

 

 

 

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

 

 

 

1.

8406 82 00

Steam Turbines and other vapour turbines with output between 5-15 MW

 

 

for Naval craft

 

 

 

2.

8408 10 93

Compression Ignition Internal Combustion piston engine with output more

 

 

than 3 MW for Naval craft

 

 

 

3.

8411 12 00

Turbojets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines for Mig-29 K or LCA

 

 

 

4.

8411 21 00,

Turbojets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines for Multi-role or Utility

 

8411 22 00

Helicopters

 

 

 

5.

8487 10 00

Ships  or  boats  propellers  and  blades  required  as  Controllable  pitch

 

 

propellers for Naval craft

 

 

 

6.

8502 13 20,

Electric generating sets with power output 1-3 MW

 

8502 13 30,

 

 

8502 13 40

 

 

 

 

7.

8502 39 90

Electric generating sets with power output 1 MW and above

 

 

  1. 8543 70 13Mine detector for Mine Detection Sweep 

 

9.

8705 90 00

Special purpose motor vehicle, other than those principally designed for the

 

 

transport of persons or goods for Vehicle based Mine scattering system

 

 

 

10.

84, 85,

(I) Helicopters of an unladen weight exceeding 2000 kg of the following

 

8802 12 00,

types, -

 

 

 

 

 

 

or 90

(a)

Military Helicopters  with  co-axial  intermeshing  or  tandem

 

 

rotors (KA 31, Kamov Ka 226, Chinook)

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

Military Helicopters with empty weight more than 3500 Kg

 

 

 

(Multi role and utility helicopters, Apache AH 64E)

 

 

(II) Associated  Role  Equipment,  Ground  Support  Equipment,  Ground

 

 

handling Equipment, Ammunition, Special Maintenance Tools, Special

 

 

Test Equipment and spares for goods mentioned at (I) above

 

 

 

11.

84, 85,

(I) Aeroplanes and other aircraft of an unladen weight not exceeding 2000

 

8802 20 00

kg required under the category of Military trainer aircraft

 

 

 

 

 

or 90

(II) Associated

Role  Equipment,  Ground  Support  Equipment,  Ground

 

handling Equipment, Ammunition, Special Maintenance Tools, Special

 

 

 

 

Test Equipment and spares for goods mentioned at (I) above

 

 

 

12.

84, 85,

(I) Aeroplanes and other aircraft of an unladen weight exceeding 2000 kg,

 

8802 30 00

but not exceeding 15,000 Kg required under the following categories, -

 

 

 

 

 

or 90

 

(a) RPA for military use- Operating altitude more than 35000

 

 

feet (HALE-High Altitude Long Endurance);

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Fighter aircraft (MMRCA, MRFA)

 

 

(II) Associated  Role  Equipment,  Ground  Support  Equipment,  Ground

 

 

handling Equipment, Ammunition, Special Maintenance Tools, Special

 

 

Test Equipment and spares for goods mentioned at (I) above

 

 

 

13.

84, 85,

(I) Aeroplanes and other aircraft of an unladen weight exceeding 15,000

 

8802 40 00

Kg required under the following categories, -

 

 

 

 

 

or 90

 

(a)

Carrier Borne Fighter aircraft;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)

Military Transport aircraft (C-130, C-17);

 

 

 

(c)

Flight Refueller aircraft;

 

 

 

(d)

AWACS aircraft;

 

 

 

(e)

Recce and surveillance aircraft

 

 

 

(f)

Amphibious aircraft;

 

 

(II) Associated  Role  Equipment,  Ground  Support  Equipment,  Ground

 

 

handling Equipment, Ammunition, Special Maintenance Tools, Special

 

 

Test Equipment and spares for goods mentioned at (I) above

 

 

 

14.

8803

Parts of goods of heading 8801 or 8802

 

 

 

15.

8805 10 20

Deck Arrestor or similar gear required as Aircraft arrestor gears

 

 

 

16.

8906 90 00

Other vessels, including warships and lifeboats other than rowing boats

 

 

required under the category of underwater vehicle/ platforms for special

 

 

operations

 

 

 

 

  1. 9301 10Artillery weapons (for example guns, howitzers, and mortars) under the category of Guns (127 mm) 

 

18.

9301 10 90

Artillery weapons under the category of Heli Portable Howitzer of calibre

 

 

more than 150 mm and weight 4500 Kg or less

 

 

 

19.

9303

Rifles under the category of Sniper rifles .338 inch or more

 

 

20.    84, 85, 87, 90

(I) Rockets with calibre more than 250 mm;

 

or 9306

(II) Integrated Air Defence Weapons Systems (IADWS);

 

 

 

 

(III) Vehicles,

Launchers,   Missiles   with  containers,   Guns,   Radars,

 

 

Command posts, Sensor systems, Power generation units, Maintenance

 

 

and repair equipment for goods mentioned at (II) above

 

 

21.    84, 85, 90 or

(I) The following goods, namely, -

 

9306

(a)

Ship launched missiles with range 8-32 Km;

 

 

 

 

(b)

Land based missiles range more than 100 Km;

 

 

(c)

Torpedoes;

 

 

(d)  shoulder fired surface to air missile;

 

 

(e)  Submarine launched land attack cruise missile;

 

 

(f)  Harpoon anti-ship missile;

 

 

(g)  Medium range anti-ship missile

 

 

(II)  Long range Surface to Air Missile System (LR SAM)

 

 

(III) Missiles,  Command  and  control  Units,  Radars,  self-propelled

 

 

launchers,   Simulators,   Inflatable   dummies,   Vehicles,   Power

 

 

generation  units,  Maintenance  and  repair  equipment  for  goods

 

 

mentioned at (II) above

 

 

 

22.

84, 85, 87,

(I) Self-propelled Air Defence Gun Missile System

 

9301 10 10 or

(II) Vehicles, missiles, guns, radar, command and control post for goods

 

93

mentioned at (I) above

 

  1. 73, 84, 85, 90   (I) Parts, sub-parts, inputs for use in manufacture of AK-203 rifle;

or 93

(II) Machinery, Fixtures, Gauges, Tools and jigs for goods mentioned at (I)

 

 

above.

 

 

 

 

  1. Nothing contained in this notification shall have effect on or after the 1st day of July, 2024. [F. No. 334/3/2019–TRU]

 

(Ruchi Bisht)

Under Secretary to the Government of India


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