Customs duty cap limits duty on specified imported stamps, plans, proofs, illustrations and antique coins to an ad valorem rate.
The Central Government exempts specified imported goods classified under particular Customs Tariff headings from customs duty insofar as the duty exceeds an amount calculated at a 65% ad valorem rate, thereby capping payable duty at that ad valorem amount. The exemption is applied in the public interest and is limited to imports of the listed descriptions-unused postage stamps; plans, drawings and designs; proofs; illustrations for book binding; and antique coins-when classified under the stated First Schedule headings.

Customs duty exemption for printed books, periodicals and specified publications on import into India permitted.
Notification exercising statutory power to exempt goods listed by tariff heading in Chapters 49 and 97 from the whole of the duty of customs when imported into India; applicable categories include printed books and covers, periodicals and newspapers, music manuscripts, maps, charts, plans, drawings and designs, certain postage stamps not of current or new issue for the destination country, and medals.

Customs exemption for newsprint under specified tariff heading ensures import duty waived for printing newspapers, books and periodicals.
Central Government exercised its statutory power under the Customs Act to grant a complete customs duty exemption for newsprint for printing of newspapers, books and periodicals when imported into India, removing the whole of the customs duty leviable on such imported newsprint under the specified tariff heading.

Customs duty exemption for raw hides and skins removes import duty on goods falling in the relevant tariff chapter.
Full exemption of customs duty is granted on the importation of raw hides and skins (fresh, salted, dried, pickled or limed), whether or not split, including sheep skins in wool, where those goods fall within the relevant tariff chapter; the exemption is effected by executive notification under the Customs Act on public interest grounds and removes the whole of the customs duty leviable under the First Schedule on the specified goods.

Amendment to customs exemption rates increases specified ad valorem rates in prior notifications under the Customs Act.
Amendments substitute revised ad valorem rates into four existing customs exemption notifications by textual replacement of the previously expressed percentage figures and words in each instrument's schedule or table, thereby altering the tariff exemption parameters specified in the listed notifications.

Effective duty on plastic resins imposed, substituting tariff table to set specified ad valorem rates.
Amendment substitutes the Table in Notification No. 49/90-Cus., listing specified tariff headings for various plastic resins and related articles and assigning an ad valorem duty rate to each described item, thereby changing the customs duty treatment of the enumerated polymers and sheets.

Customs duty cap on specified agricultural chemicals limits customs duty excess on imports under notification.
Exempts specified agricultural chemicals from so much of the customs duty under the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act as is in excess of 15% ad valorem, by exercising powers under the Customs Act; the listed goods include Ovaprim (GnRH analogue with Domperidone), Dipping Oil, and Paclobutrazol (Cultar) classified in the relevant tariff chapters, thereby capping the effective import duty on those items at the stated ad valorem rate.

Customs duty amendments change tariff treatment of various film products and substitute revised duty rates.
Amendments revise multiple customs notifications by substituting Tables and column entries to change tariff treatment and duty bases for specified film products, converting certain specific per metre levies to ad valorem duties, omitting designated serial entries, and increasing ad valorem rates for particular items.

Customs exemption on imported natural and animal fertilisers limits duty above a specified ad valorem rate.
The Central Government exempts Guano and other natural animal or vegetable fertilisers, classifiable in Chapter 31 and not chemically treated, from that part of customs duty on import which exceeds a prescribed ad valorem rate, treating mixtures of such natural fertilisers as eligible and grounding the exemption on statutory authority and public interest.

Concessional customs duty cap for specified veterinary formulations limits import tariffs for listed animal drugs.
Concessional customs treatment is extended to a specified list of veterinary formulations by exempting the portion of duty shown in the tariff schedule that exceeds a prescribed ad valorem ceiling. The notification identifies eligible veterinary substances in a table and limits import duty liability to the stated ad valorem threshold for those named products.

Customs notification amendment: substituted drug descriptions to align exemption schedule nomenclature under customs authority.
The Central Government, invoking its powers under the Customs Act, 1962, amends the Schedule to Notification No. 208/81 Customs by substituting the Schedule entries: Serial No. 171 is replaced with "Isoflurane Liquid" and Serial No. 299 is replaced with "Mitoxantrone Injection," thereby altering the descriptive nomenclature of those pharmaceutical items within the exemption notification.

Customs duty exemption for bulk drugs used in manufacture of life saving medicines, subject to importer undertakings and record requirements.
Full exemption from customs duty is granted for bulk drugs within Chapters 28-30 when imported for manufacture of life saving medicines specified in the referenced Schedule, subject to the importer furnishing an undertaking, maintaining prescribed accounts evidencing receipt and consumption at the place of manufacture, producing a certified extract of those accounts within three months or an allowed extension, and paying, on demand, the duty difference if obligations are not complied with; "bulk drug" is as defined in the Drugs (Price Control) Order, 1987.

Concessional customs duty for specified veterinary bulk drugs, capping customs liability at a reduced ad valorem rate.
Notification exempts customs duty in excess of a concessional ad valorem rate for listed bulk drugs imported for manufacture of veterinary drugs, limiting customs liability on specified imports to the reduced ad valorem rate and granting exemption for the balance under the government's public-interest exemption power.

Customs exemption amendment raises specified ad valorem rates and omits a prior notification table entry to modify concessions.
Central Government directs amendments to three customs exemption notifications, substituting higher ad valorem rates in two notifications and omitting the first table entry in another, thereby modifying the tariff concession parameters and the scope of the prior notifications.

Customs exemption amendments increase ad valorem rates and revise exempted inputs for pharmaceutical manufacture and rename certain entries.
Amendments revise exempted inputs and substitute specified ad valorem rates in Notifications 64/79, 58/85, 67/91, 53/92 and 251/92; they insert, substitute or omit table entries naming inputs and intermediates for pharmaceutical manufacture and add an entry for Melagenina.

Customs duty rate increase adjusts tariff table and exemption entries, bringing specified corticosteroids within the revised tariff framework.
Amendment prescribes a new effective rate of Customs duty by substituting the ad valorem rate in the annexed Table, omitting certain serial entries and entries relating thereto, and inserting new entries for Hydrocortisone, Prednisolone, Betamethasone and Dexamethasone, thereby modifying the tariff/exemption treatment under the earlier notification.

Customs duty cap on specified bulk drugs limits liability to a fixed ad valorem rate, exempting excess duty.
The Central Government, invoking its statutory power and public interest, exempts specified bulk drugs (including salts and esters) from customs duty to the extent that such duty exceeds a stated ad valorem rate; the notification lists Pilocarpine, Sulfadoxin, Sulphamethoxypyrazine and Salazosulphapyridine as the eligible imported goods.

Concessional customs duty for specified drug intermediates: 50% ad valorem concession subject to usage and recordkeeping conditions.
Prescribes a concessional customs duty reducing effective duty to 50% ad valorem on specified intermediates imported for manufacture of listed bulk drugs. The concession applies only where importer furnishes an undertaking that goods will be used for the stated manufacture, the manufacturer maintains specified accounts, and a certified extract evidencing receipt at the manufacturing premises is produced within three months (or extended period). Failure to comply triggers recovery of the duty difference. The notification preserves other existing exemptions and defines eligible goods by an annexed Table.

Customs duty rates capped for specified chemical imports, fixing effective ad valorem liability across listed tariff headings.
The Central Government exempts specified chemicals imported under Chapters 28 and 29 from that portion of basic customs duty which exceeds the capped ad valorem rate stated for each listed tariff heading or subheading, with the Table identifying the goods and their corresponding effective ad valorem rates.

Customs duty cap on specified pesticides limits excess import duty by exempting surplus customs levy.
The Central Government exempts specified pesticide, insecticide, fungicide and weedicide chemicals imported under the First Schedule tariff classifications from so much of the customs duty as exceeds an amount calculated at the rate of 75% ad valorem, applying this public interest exemption to the chemicals listed in the annexed Table.