Concessional Rate of 10% Duty Withdrawn on Bamboo for the manufacture of Agarbatties – Uniform Rate of 25% is Applicable Now

[Notification No. 27/2020-Customs dated 9 June 2020]

Seeks to further amend notification No. 50/2017-Cus dated 30.06.2017 so as to withdraw the concessional rate of 10% available to the import of Bamboo for the manufacture of Agarbattis, and to levy a uniform rate of 25% on import of Bamboos [HS 1401 10 00].

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) and sub-section (12) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), the Central Government, on 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, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 50/2017- Customs, dated the 30th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 785(E), dated the 30th June, 2017, namely:-

In the said notification, in the Table, for serial number 55 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be substituted, namely: -

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
“55	1401 10 00	Bamboos	25%	-	-”.

[F. No. 354/360/2017-TRU]