Customs duty revisions reshape tariffs to protect domestic manufacturing while exempting inputs and conditioning concessional rates.

Proposed revision of basic customs duty rates reallocates protection by increasing duties on finished consumer and automotive imports while reducing or exempting inputs and designated end-use materials to promote domestic manufacturing. Concessional rates and exemptions are conditional on specified end-uses and registrations, such as RNI registration for newsprint; electronic and mobile-phone components face staged duty increases with effective dates; defense-related imports by specified public sector undertakings are exempted subject to listed items.

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