Zero Duty on Anti Tuberculosis Drugs, Diagnostic and Eqpts
Import upto 1 Oct 2015
[Customs Notification No. 49 dated 29th November 2013]
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 exempts goods of the
description specified in the Table below and falling within the First Schedule
to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), when imported into India, from
the whole of the duty of customs leviable
thereon which is specified in the said First Schedule and from the whole of
the additional duty leviable thereon under
section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act,1975 subject to the condition that the importer produces, at the time of clearance of the said goods, before the
jurisdictional Assistant or Deputy Commissioner of Customs, as the case may be,
a certificate from an officer not below the rank of Deputy Secretary to the
Government of India in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to the effect
that the said goods are required for the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme funded by the Global Fund to fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Explanation – Nothing contained in this
notification shall have effect on or after the 1st day of October,
2015.
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Table |
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Category |
Description of goods |
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Anti Tuberculosis Drugs |
New Cases
(PC-1), Re-treatment cases (PC-2), Prolongation Pouches (PC-4), Pediatric Box
(PC-13), Pediatric Box (PC-14), Pediatric Pouch (PC-15), Pediatric Pouch
(PC-16), Isoniazid-100 mg (PC-7), Ethambutol-800 mg (PC-10), Isoniazid-300 mg
(PC-11), Kanamycin 500 mg (PC-17), Kanamycin 1000 mg (PC-27), Capreomycin 500 mg (PC-42), Capreomycin
750 mg (PC-35), Capreomycin 1000 mg (PC-36),
Levoflox-250 mg (PC-28), Levoflox-500 mg (PC-29), Moxifloxacin
400 mg (PC-39), Cycloserine 250 mg (PC-24), Ethionamide 250 mg (PC-20), Ethionamide
125 mg (PC-30), Na-PAS 4 gm (PC-32), Na-PAS 10 gm (PC-25), Ethambulol 400 mg
(PC-45), Ethambulol 800 mg (PC-10), Pyrazinamide
500 mg (PC-8), Pyrazinamide 750 mg (PC-23), Pyridoxine 50 mg (PC-31),
Pyridoxine 100 mg (PC-26), Capreomycin 750 mg
(PC-35), Capreomycin 1000 mg (PC-36), Moxifloxacin 400 mg (PC-39), Isoniazid 300 mg (PC-11), Clofazimine 100 mg (PC-40), Linezolid 600 mg (PC-38), Amoxyclav 875/125 mg (PC-43), Sodium PAS 4 gm (PC-32), Sodium PAS 10 gm
(PC-25), Clarithromycin 500 mg (PC-37), Thiacetazone
150 mg (PC-44), Pyridoxine 100 mg (PC-26). |
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Diagnostics
and Equipments |
Biosafety
cabinet Class II A2 with UPS as per specification, Bacteriologic Incubator
(300 LT), Refrigerated centrifuge with UPS as per specification, Autoclaves:
Horizontal, Autoclaves: Vertical, LPA Equipments,
LC Equipments, LPA kits, Liquid Culture reagents, Capillia Kits, Fluorescence microscope, DNA Sequencing
kits, Inspissators, LED Fluorescence microscopes,
Binocular Microscopes, CB-NAAT machine, Cartridges, Annual Calibration. |
[F.No.354/55/2003 –TRU (Pt-I)]