Customs exemption amendment: specified leather industry inputs are listed by substituted table, clarifying covered components.
Amendment to an existing customs exemption notification substitutes the prior table of exempted items with a new list specifying inputs for the leather industry, enumerating penetrators, narrow-width stamping foil, assorted metal fittings and certain buttons and fasteners under the relevant tariff heading.

Customs exemption for machine knives and blades limits import duty to the rate applicable to the parent machine.
Exemption exempts knives and cutting blades imported for machines or mechanical appliances under Heading No. 82.08 from customs duty insofar as duty exceeds the amount calculated at the rate applicable to the parent machine or mechanical appliance, the exemption being exercised under powers conferred by the Customs Act and subject to any notification in force under that power.

Declaration of warehousing station under the Customs Act establishes designated warehousing status for Village Hazira.
Declaration under Section 9 of the Customs Act, 1962 designates Village Hazira in Surat district, Gujarat, as a warehousing station by exercise of statutory powers, conferring recognized warehousing status for customs purposes and enabling application of customs warehousing rules and administrative controls.

Appointment as Collector of Customs confers limited adjudicatory authority over specified warehoused import consignments.
The Central Government appoints Shri K. Vishwanathan, Additional Director General, Directorate General of Inspection and Audit, Western Regional Unit, also to be Collector of Customs for the limited purpose of adjudicating specified warehoused import consignments of jumbo rolls of medical X ray films and graphic art films imported through Bombay Custom House by M/s. Northern Plastics Limited, with bill of entry identifiers and dates enumerated; the appointment supersedes an earlier notification.

Land customs station designation for cross border exports sets Ghasuapara as the authorised clearance point and route control.
Under clauses (b) and (c) of section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962, the Central Government designates Ghasuapara, under the Collector of Customs and Central Excise, Shillong, as a land customs station for clearance of goods exported by land or inland water to Bangladesh, and prescribes the road from Ghasuapara to Baluaghat as the sole authorised route by which such goods may pass.

Customs exemption amendment adds terry towel and terry towel cloth to the schedule of duty exemptions.
The Central Government, exercising statutory amendment power in the public interest, inserts a new serial entry into the Table of Notification No. 203/90-Customs to add terry towel and terry towel cloth, thereby bringing those goods within the notification's exemption from customs tariff treatment.

Warehousing station designation: Village Shapur declared a customs warehousing station under statutory customs authority.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs, exercising powers under section 9 of the Customs Act, 1962, declares Village Shapur in Kotda Sanghani Taluka, Rajkot District, Gujarat, to be a warehousing station, thereby bringing the location within the regulatory framework and obligations applicable to declared customs warehousing stations.

Auxiliary duty amendment expands customs notification schedule by inserting a new entry into the tariff exemption roster.
Amendment inserts Sl. No. 286 and an associated entry into the Schedule to Notification No. 180/90-Customs, effected by the Central Government under section 25(1) of the Customs Act read with section 64(4) of the Finance Act, thereby modifying the scope of the miscellaneous exemption notification concerning auxiliary duty and tariff treatment.

Customs exemption for jute machinery permits reduced import duty for registered industrial actual users producing jute products.
Exemption grants duty relief on specified machines and accessories in Chapters 84, 85 and 90 imported for jute manufacture by industrial actual users, by exempting customs duty in excess of 25% ad valorem and the additional duty under section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, subject to registration and production of documentary evidence of actual user status to customs at importation.