Excise Duty Slashed to Nil from 6% on Roofing Tiles and Bricks

·        Steel for Shipbuilding – Nil

·        Jaggery Powder – 6%

·        Flattened Bamboo Boards and Bamboo Flooring Tiles – 6%

[Central Excise Notification No. 16 dated 8th May 2013]

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby directs that each of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) specified in column (2) of the Table hereto annexed shall be further amended in the manner specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, namely:-

Table

S. No.

Notification No. and Date

Amendments

(1)

(2)

(3)

1.

1/2011-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2011

In the said notification, in the Table,-

(i) after the serial number 9 and the entries relating thereto the following serial number and the entries shall be inserted, namely:- 

“9A

1701

Jaggery Powder”

(ii) after the serial number 52 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and the entries shall be inserted, namely:-

“52 A

44 or any chapter

Flattened Bamboo boards:

52 B

44 or any chapter

Bamboo Flooring tiles”.

(iii) serial number 81, 83 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted

2.

2/2011-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2011

In the said notification, in the Table,- 

(i) after the serial number 2 and the entries relating thereto, the

following serial number and the entries shall be inserted, namely:- 

“2A

1701

Jaggery Powder”

(ii) after the serial number 29 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and the entries shall be inserted, namely:- 

“29A

44 or any chapter

Flattened bamboo boards;

29B

44 or any chapter

Bamboo flooring tiles”.

(iii) serial number 45 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted

3.

12/2012-Central Excise, dated the 17th March, 2012

In the said notification, in the Table,-

(i) after the serial number 187 and the entries relating thereto, the

following serial number and the entries shall be inserted, namely:-

“187A

6901 00 01

All goods

Nil

-;

187B

6905 10 00

Roofing Tiles

Nil

-;

(ii) after serial number 306A and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and the entries shall be inserted, namely:- 

“306B

72

Steel supplied for use in the manufacture of goods falling under heading 8901,8902,8904,8905 (except sub-heading 8905 20) or 8906, in accordance with the provisions of section 65 of the Customs Act,1962 (52 of 1962)

Nil

2 and 3”.

(iii) against serial number 330, after the entry (vii) in column 3, the

following entry shall be inserted, namely:-

“(viii) Particle/fibre board manufactured from agricultural crop residues”.

[F.No. 334/3/2013-TRU]