Tariff concessions on import under India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement

Seeks to amend notification No. 46/2011-Customs dated 01.06.2011 so as to provide deeper tariff concessions in respect of specified goods when imported from ASEAN under the India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement w.e.f. 01.01.2017 and to carry out editorial changes as a result of HS 2017 changes.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No. 63/2016 – Customs

New Delhi, dated the 31st December, 2016

G.S.R. 1203 (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.46/2011-Customs, dated the 1st June, 2011 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 423 (E), dated the 1st June, 2011, namely:-

In the said notification, for the Table, the following Table shall be substituted, namely:-

ethers; pentachlorophenol (ISO), its salts or its
esters; pelluorooctane sulphonic acid and its salts;

ethers; pentachlorophenol (ISO), its salts or its
esters; pelluorooctane sulphonic acid and its salts;

(ISO); bi napacry I ( I SO) ; camphechlor (ISO)

(toxaphene); captafol (ISO); chlordane (ISO); chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzilate (ISO); DDT (ISO) (d of enotane (1 N N), 1 ,1,1-tri chloro- 2,2-bis(p‑

chl orphenyl )ethane); dieldrin (ISO,INN), dinoseb (ISO), its salts or its esters; ethylene di bromi de (ISO) (1,2-di bromoethane); ethylene di chlori de( I SO); (1,2‑

di choloroethane); f I uoroacetami de( I SO);

heptwhl or( I SO) ; hexachl orobenzene( ISO);

1,2,3,4,5,6,- hexachl orocyd ()hexane (I-1CH ( I SO)),
including I i ndane (ISO, I N N); mercury compounds;

(ISO); bi napacry I ( I SO) ; camphechlor (ISO)

(toxaphene); captafol (ISO); chlordane (ISO); chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzilate (ISO); DDT (ISO) (dofenotane (INN), 1 ,1,1-trichloro- 2,2-bis(p‑

chlorphenyl)ethane); dieldrin (ISO,INN), dinoseb (ISO), its salts or its esters; ethylene di bromi de (ISO) (1,2-di bromoethane); ethylene di chlori de( I SO); (1,2‑

di choloroethane); f I uoroacetami de( I SO);

heptwhl or( I SO) ; hexwhl orobenzene( ISO);

1,2,3,4,5,6,- hexachl orocyd ()hexane (I-1CH ( I SO)),
including I i ndane (ISO, I N N); mercury compounds;

those containing, -aldrin (ISO); binapwryl

(ISO); camphechl or (ISO) (toxaphene);

captafol (ISO); chlordane (ISO);

chlordimeform (ISO); chlorobenzi late (ISO);

DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN), 1 ,1,1-

trichloro- 2,2-bis(p-chlorphenyl)ethane);
dieldrin (ISO,INN), dinoseb (ISO), its salts or

its esters; ethylene dibromide (ISO) (1,2-

dibromoethane); ethylene dichloride(ISO);

(HCH(ISO)), including lindare (ISO, INN);
mercury compounds; methamidophos (ISO);

monocrotophos (ISO); oxirane (ethylene

oxide); parathion (ISO); parathion-methyl

(ISO) (methyl parathion); pentwhlorophenol

(ISO); phosphamidon (ISO); 2,4,5-T (ISO) (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its salts or its esters;

in strips or rolls of a width exceeding 36
cm; or

Flat-surface grinding machines, in which the positioning in any one axis can be set up to an accuracy of at least 0.01 mm; or

Flat-surface grinding machines, in which the

positioning in any one axis can be set up to an

accuracy of at least 0.01 mm; or

plastics and other materials of heading 3901 to 3914; or

of articles of stone or of other mi nerd
substances;

suitable for use solely or principally with the machi nay of headings 8425 to 8430; or

for Surveying (including photogrammetrical

surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic,
hydrological, meteorological or geophysical

instruments and appliances, excluding
compasses, and for Rangefinders; or

2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of January, 2017.

Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note.- The principal notification No. 46/2011-Customs, dated the 1st June, 2011, was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number 423 (E), dated the 1st June, 2011 and was last amended by notification No. 58/2015- Cus, dated 30th December, 2015 which was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 1017 (E), dated 30th December, 2015.