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Customs Notification No- 161/2003 dated 4.11.2003
Mono or Bi Polar Membrane Electrolysers for Caustic Soda Units 15% Cus Duty
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 makes the
following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in
the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 21/2002-Customs, dated the
1st March, 2002, namely:-
In the said notification, in the Table, against S.No. 285, for the entry in
column (3), the following entry shall be substituted, namely:-
The following goods, namely:-
(1) Mono or Bi polar Membrane electrolysers and parts thereof including
secondary brine purification components, jumper switches, filtering elements for
hydrogen filters and any other machinery, required for, -
(i) modernization by using membrane cell technology, of an existing caustic soda
unit, or
(ii) capacity expansion of an existing caustic soda unit using membrane cell
technology or
(iii) setting up of a new caustic unit soda using membrane cell technology;
(2) Membrane and parts thereof for replacement of worn out membranes in an
industrial plant based on membrane cell technology.
Sd/-
(G.S. Karki)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
[F.No. 354/112/2003-TRU]
Note. The principal notification No. 21/2002-Customs, dated the 1st March,
2002 was published in the Gazette of India vide number G.S.R. 118(E), dated the
1st March, 2002 and was last amended vide notification No. 160/2003-Customs,
dated the 24th October, 2003 [G.S.R. 841 (E), dated the 24th October, 2003].