Rate of exchange determination under Customs Act provision fixes official foreign currency conversion rates affecting customs transactions.
Determination of official rate of exchange for specified foreign currencies under the Customs Act provision, effective 1 April 1986, superseding the earlier 1 January notification. The Central Government prescribes the units of each listed foreign currency equivalent to Rs.100 for conversion into Indian currency or vice versa, and provides a Schedule of eighteen currencies with corresponding exchange rates to be used for customs valuation and related statutory purposes.

Removal of expiry clause extends customs exemption for food processing and packing machines under amended notification.
Amendment deletes the phrase in paragraph 2 of Notification No. 125/86-Cus. that limited the notification's operation to the 31st day of March, 1986, thereby removing the temporal limitation on the customs exemption for food processing and packing machines under the prior notification.

Extension of customs notification expiry - government extends notification validity under section seven of the Customs Act.
Central Government, invoking clause (a) of section 7 of the Customs Act, 1962, amends paragraph 2 of Notification No. 257/85 Customs by substituting the previously specified expiry date with a later date, thereby extending the notification's period of validity.

Customs notification amendment extends exemption period for denatured ethyl alcohol, substituting the earlier expiry with a later 1986 date.
The Central Government amends Notification No. 39/85-Customs (28 February 1985) by substituting the expiry wording in paragraph 2, replacing the previously specified expiry date with a later expiry date, thereby extending the temporal effect of the exemption for denatured ethyl alcohol.

Customs amendment alters designated administrative authority for procedural oversight of imported capital goods on export.
The Central Government amends a customs notification by substituting the administrative authority named in condition (7), thereby changing the designated official responsible for procedural oversight of certain imported capital goods on export; the amendment is confined to that textual substitution and does not alter other operative terms of the original notification.

Extension of customs exemption period for lead glass used in manufacture of electrical lamp components continues import relief.
Notification No. 220/86-Cus dated 24-3-1986 amends Notification No. 117/85-Customs by substituting a later expiry date in paragraph 2 to extend the temporary import duty exemption for lead glass tubings and rods imported for use in the manufacture of components for electrical lamps and fluorescent tubes.

Customs exemption period extended for imports used in manufacture of Kruppmann light metal float bridge, prolonging relief.
Amendment to Notification No. 306/85 Customs substitutes the terminal date in paragraph 2 so as to extend the validity of the exemption for steel plates and aluminium alloy extruded hollow profiles imported for manufacture of the Kruppmann light metal float bridge; the change is made under sub section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 on public interest grounds.

Customs exemption extension for cork materials prolongs specified notification expiry, altering previously scheduled deadline.
Amendment extends the operative period of a customs exemption for cork wood and cork waste used in the manufacture of cork products by substituting the original expiry date with a later one, altering paragraph 2 of the earlier notification to prolong the benefit of the specified customs exemption for those materials.

Warehousing station designation: Kolhapur officially declared, enabling customs warehousing operations under statutory exercise of powers.
Kolhapur in District Kolhapur, Maharashtra, is declared a warehousing station by the Central Board of Excise and Customs under the powers conferred by section 9 of the Customs Act, 1962, providing the statutory basis for customs warehousing operations at that location.

Customs exemption extension for edible oils donated as gifts extends notification period under Customs Act provision.
The Central Government amends paragraph 2 of Notification No. 230/82-Customs to substitute the previously specified expiry date with a later date, thereby extending the customs exemption for edible oils donated as gifts under the miscellaneous exemption notifications framework.

Extension of customs exemption: fogging machines notification extended for one year under section 25(1) of the Customs Act.
Amendment extends the term of a customs exemption for fogging machines by substituting the expiry date in paragraph 2 of Notification No. 319 Customs (dated 16 October 1985), effected under section 25(1) of the Customs Act, 1962, on grounds of public interest; the change is limited to replacing the specified expiry date.

Customs exemption period extended for drilling rigs and spares for rural water supply projects, prolonging import duty relief.
Amendment extends the exemption for drilling rigs and spares imported for rural water supply projects by substituting the terminal date in paragraph 2 of Notification No.129-Customs, under the powers of section 25(1) of the Customs Act, thereby continuing the existing tariff relief for the specified imports for an additional year.

Customs tariff amendment: ad valorem duty imposed on specified electrical apparatus parts, altering their tariff treatment.
An amendment inserts a new tariff entry covering parts of goods related to electrical apparatus falling under specified subheadings and prescribes an 60 per cent ad valorem duty rate for those parts, by adding a serial entry after the existing second entry in the Table of the prior exemption notification.

Customs tariff amendment replaces specified tariff entries for iron or steel, altering applicable headings under the existing notification.
The Central Government amends Notification No. 61/86 Customs by substituting, against Serial No. 6 in column (2) of the Table annexed to that notification, the existing entries with the specified tariff headings for iron or steel, thereby changing the applicable customs tariff entries under the notification.

Exemption procedure amended to designate the Development Commissioner of the zone for specified imported capital goods on export.
The government, exercising statutory powers under the Customs Act, amended the Hindi text of an earlier notification by inserting the words "Development Commissioner of the said Zone" in condition No. (7) after the phrase "in this behalf by the", thereby clarifying the administrative authority responsible for exemptions relating to certain imported capital goods on export.

Customs exemption added for Gateway Telephone Exchange Project extending project imports relief under Customs Tariff Act provisions.
The Central Government, exercising powers under sub item (6) of Heading No. 98.01 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 and having regard to economic development, amends notification No. 110 Customs by inserting a new serial entry to include the Gateway Telephone Exchange Project among exempted project imports.

Customs exemption amendments modify notifications to expand cinematographic equipment coverage and remove several listed entries.
Amendments pursuant to executive power under section 25(1) of the Customs Act substitute, omit and insert specified entries in three Customs miscellaneous exemption notifications dated 1 March 1986: 187-Cus replaces the Sl. No. 48 entry with "Automatic film processor for use in the printing industry"; 189-Cus omits Sl. No. 12, removes the phrase excluding power cranes from Sl. No. 15, and inserts Sl. Nos. 26A and 26B listing cinematographic laboratory machines and cinematographic machines and apparatus; 190-Cus omits Sl. Nos. 31, 37, 52 and 63 from its Schedule.

Customs exemption amendments update listed notifications to omit entries, substitute tariff descriptions, and insert specific tariff items.
Customs exemption amendments direct targeted alterations to seven existing miscellaneous exemption notifications by omitting specified entries, substituting tariff descriptions, inserting additional tariff items, and varying description of parts and rates. The changes include omissions of listed serial entries, substitution of descriptive phrases for tariff items (for example replacing generic descriptions with references to specific sub headings or expanding "Parts" to "Parts and accessories"), and insertion of detailed tariff items with associated ad valorem rates for engines, pumps, compressors, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, electrostatic precipitators, and parts of specified machinery.

Customs notification amendment updates Development Wing designation to Ministry of Industry for re importation after repairs procedures.
The Central Government, exercising powers under the Customs Act, substitutes in the first proviso of Notification No. 204 Customs the words "(e) Development Wing of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry" with "(e) Development Wing of the Ministry of Industry (Directorate General of Technical Development)", thereby altering the departmental designation referenced in the exemption proviso concerning re importation of articles after repairs.

Warehousing station designation under Customs Act declared for Loni Kalbhor; facilitates customs-regulated storage and control.
Declaration under section 9 of the Customs Act designates Loni Kalbhor in Pune District as a warehousing station by Central Board notification, identifying the location for customs warehousing and subjecting it to customs regulatory control for storage of dutiable goods.