Exemption from customs duty and AIDC on imported cotton temporarily suspends import levies to address public interest. Exemption from customs duty and Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC) is granted on imports of cotton under heading 5201 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, exempting such goods from the whole of the customs duty and the whole of the AIDC when imported, on a public interest basis, subject to the temporal limits and administrative terms set out in the issuing notification.