60% Duty on Areca Nuts which Includes Betel Nuts Import from LDC Countries

·     Confusion on Classification of Betel Nuts under 0802 90 Removed

[Customs Notification No. 02 dated 27th January 2017]

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 96/2008-Customs, dated the 13th August, 2008 published vide number G.S.R. 590 (E), dated the 13th August, 2008, namely:-

In the said notification, in APPENDIX - I, in the TABLE, for serial number 14 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be substituted namely:-

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

14

080280

All goods

60%

F. No. 354/189/2005-TRU (Vol-II)]