No Duty on Container Tags in Re-export Cases

· A device such as tag, tracking device or data logger already affixed on the container at the time of import shall also be eligible for exemption from the duty of customs and the integrated tax as is available to the said container under this notification.

[Please see BIG’s Easy Reference Customs Tariff February 2023 under Re-Exports @page 1666 for notification text]

[Notification No. 14/2023-Customs dated 28 February, 2023]

G.S.R. …..(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 104/94-Customs, dated the 16th March, 1994 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 319(E), dated the 16th March, 1994, namely:-

In the said notification, after the Second proviso, the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely: -

“Explanation.- A device such as tag, tracking device or data logger already affixed on the container at the time of import shall also be eligible for exemption from the duty of customs and the integrated tax as is available to the said container under this notification.”.

[F. No. CBIC-190354/21/2023-TO(TRU-II)-CBEC]