Customs airport designation expands unloading authority to specified airports for imported aircraft parts and materials.
Under the power conferred by clause (a) of section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962, the Central Government designates Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam airports as Customs airports for the unloading of imported aircraft parts, accessories and materials required for the manufacture of aircraft.

Origin determination rules require evidence and a certificate for preferential tariff concession on qualifying imports under the Bangkok Agreement
These Rules set criteria and procedures for claiming Special Tariff Concession for goods consigned from Bangkok Agreement Member States: the importer must claim eligibility at importation and produce prescribed evidence; a proper officer must be satisfied that origin conditions in the Schedule are complied with. The Schedule requires that wholly produced goods be produced within the exporting territory, and that partly or wholly manufactured goods have the final process in that territory with at least fifty percent of ex-factory cost attributable to goods produced and labour performed there; origin claims must be supported by a certificate of origin from an authorised body.

Import manifest obligations require duplicate filing, electronic passenger transmission, and separate sheets for dangerous or precious cargo.
Import manifest obligations require delivery in duplicate covering all goods and comprising a general declaration, passenger manifest, cargo manifest and crew private property list in prescribed Forms. Deliverers must register with Customs in Form V providing identity, PAN, authorised filers and enclosures. Cargo manifests must be on separate sheets by category and items such as arms, explosives, narcotics, gold and silver must be on distinct sheets ordered by ports of loading, with a nil declaration if absent. Passenger manifests must be furnished within fifteen minutes of flight closure and transmitted electronically, with limited alternative delivery where electronic transmission is unavoidably impossible.

Additional duty liability on stainless steel household manufactures under Customs Tariff Act, superseding an earlier notification.
Notification 357-Cus dated 2-8-1976, issued under section 3(3) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, directs that articles in the annexed Schedule shall be liable to additional duty as determined by the Additional Duty Rules, 1976. The Schedule includes stainless steel manufactures for household use. The notification supersedes Notification No. 105-Customs (2 July 1969) and bears an amendment reference to Notification No. 125/95-Cus.

Additional duty equalisation: imported articles bear additional duty matching excise on the material used in their manufacture.
The rules levy an additional duty on specified imported articles equal to the excise duty leviable on the material corresponding to the imported article to the extent that material is used in its manufacture; the Table pairs articles with materials (e.g., household stainless steel manufactures paired with stainless steel) and the duty follows that correspondence.

Rules of origin: eligibility for special tariff concessions requires origin certification and minimum local value content.
Eligibility for the Special Tariff Concession for goods from the United Arab Republic and Yugoslavia requires compliance with the Rules of Origin: goods must be wholly produced or have the final manufacturing process performed in the exporting Participating State and the expenditure on materials and labour within that State must meet the prescribed minimum proportion of factory or works cost, with claims made at importation supported by a certificate of origin issued by an authorised governmental body.

Exemption for gifts and free samples exported by air: customs duty waived subject to limited exclusions.
The Central Government exempts gifts or free samples exported by air from customs duty under the Second Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, while excluding block mica and skins of reptiles and wild animals except where those excluded items fall below a specified small-value threshold.

Customs export exemptions for low-value samples and gifts sent by post; duty waived under the tariff schedule.
Exemption from customs duty applies to consignments exported by post: samples and gifts of mica and skins of reptiles and wild animals valued up to forty rupees are exempt from the whole of the duty under the Second Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975; all other goods (other than mica and those skins) valued up to three hundred rupees exported by post are also exempt from the whole of such duty.

Exemption from additional customs duty for certain imported goods under Heading 98.04, excluding tobacco and specified colour televisions.
Exempts from the whole of the additional duty levied under the Customs Tariff regime goods (other than tobacco products) falling under Heading No. 98.04 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act when imported into India, but excludes Colour Television Sets imported under the Government of India order made under the Imports and Exports (Control) Act; the exemption was later rescinded by a subsequent notification.

Exemption from additional duty removes the additional customs levy on imports of the specified tariff heading at importation.
Exempts goods classifiable under the specified Customs Tariff heading from the whole of the additional duty